Last May, like an idiot, when removing the fall /winter nitto Motivo's I use for rain tires...... and then installing the Nitto-555's for May-Oct.... I reversed the pair of rear 285-40-18's. These are directional treads. Instead of water diverging, it instead converges towards the center....bad news in the wet. Hardly any rain this summer..so no big deal. However the handling is screwed up. (Fronts are 275-40-18's..and installed correctly.) You wouldn't think having just the rears swapped side to side would muck up the handling...but it does. It would pull to the left at the top end of 2nd gear every time. It wouldn't stay straight with the blower on. It didn't feel right on corner's either. I thought for sure the suspension was binding up somewhere or the uca differential bushing was trashed. (bushing is fine).
Just swapped the rears back to normal today...and a big difference... various issues vanished. I won't make that mistake again.
Just swapped the rears back to normal today...and a big difference... various issues vanished. I won't make that mistake again.