Chevron tread direction

Posted by DJ in WA [162.158.106.9] on Friday, March 23, 2018 at 13:54:27 :

Preface - My drafting teacher said I had a cognitive deficiency for understanding 3-dimensions, and he was probably right.
To me, this chevron looks like it’s installed correctly for aggressive forward traction- where the rubber meets the road it will sluice mud and water back and out, and make a “forward arrow” tread pattern on the ground. Right? Or am I crazy?
But reading up on this, it sounds like this is the non-aggressive “flotation” orientation. Called so because you would not dig into mud, or would propel forward when spinning in water in an amphibious vehicle. Also - directional arrows on the sidewalks of newer snow tires show the opposite of this photo. And a lot of photos from WW2 show “forward arrow” tread orientation on top of the tire as well ...

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• Re: Chevron tread direction - Daryl in Oz 18:49:47 03/23/2018
  • Re: Chevron tread direction - Chewie 19:09:12 03/23/2018
• Re: Chevron tread direction - Vaughn 18:39:24 03/23/2018
• Re: Chevron tread direction - John in PA 15:32:03 03/23/2018
  • Re: Chevron tread direction - Clueless 01:21:28 03/24/2018
• Wow - Bob Ragan 15:21:00 03/23/2018
• you could alway do like i did - clueless 15:10:29 03/23/2018
  • Re: you could alway do like i did - Kaegi 16:45:51 03/23/2018
    • Re: you could alway do like i did - Clueless 01:18:46 03/24/2018
    • Re: you could alway do like i did - Clueless 01:17:56 03/24/2018
• Re: Chevron tread direction - Alex J 14:04:48 03/23/2018
  • Re: Chevron tread direction - clueless 15:16:29 03/23/2018

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