Should you opt for Unidirectional Tyres?
A tyre that is manufactured and designed to rotate in one direction is known simply as “Directional tyre or Unidirectional tyre”. Unidirectional tyres are simple tyres and you can easily locate them between other tyres since they have a particular distinct tread pattern. The tread pattern of the unidirectional tyres appears to be like an arrow pointing in one direction. On the sidewall/ side of the tyre, the arrow is present which indicates the direction of rotation of the tyre. Hence, it can also tell whether the tyre on the vehicle should be mounted on the right side or left the side. By, this you can easily guess the direction of rotation of the tyre but you all might have also observed a riced up Civic or the badly bruised Corolla that has been driven on some rural areas, having inversely mounted directional/unidirectional tyres from a local body kit. Buy Tyres Online from PakWheels Spare Parts.
Apart from this particular tread pattern, unidirectional tyres have a thick rib/band at the center of the tyre. When you are driving, this thick rib at the center provides continuous contact with the surface of the road. Thus, the purpose of this rib is not only to provide a good contact of the tyre with the road/surface you are driving on but it helps in improving the ride by providing better and improved handling and braking in both dry and wet conditions. When you steer and change the direction, this one thick band of rubber in the center thus provide improved steering response. Even during driving; in response to the minor steering corrections, this band improves the steering response.
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These Tyre are not as good as full wet tyres but still, they provide better water dispersion than the regular Tyre. When the Tyre will rotate, it will evacuate the water from the back. Some people believe that the grooves on the directional tyre also help in the evacuation of water from underneath. Grooves undoubtedly are designed to help tyres regarding water evacuation. But still, whether it’s unidirectional tyres or any type of tyres, water is evacuated circumferential i.e., through the rear of the tyre.
- Thus, we can say that unidirectional tyres are better in the evacuation of water.
- While changing direction they improve the stability of the vehicle.
- Instead of the regular tyre, unidirectional tyres are considered less noisy.
- Even if you mount them on wrong or opposite side, they don’t pose threat unless until they fail at the 10th of an inch from where they were mounted.
The main point of this article is that whether in our country Pakistan, unidirectional tyres are suitable to be used in vehicles or not.
- Firstly, not everyone can buy these tyres since they are expensive.
- And only who have enough money for these kinds of luxuries would go for these tyres.
- Here, it is hard to check and properly see the functional use of these tyres since these tyres are not common so again question would arise that how many times do you actually see these tyres?
- But, people who travel in the rainy season and travel a lot on the motorway at high speed would benefit from these type of tyres.
- Thus, one cannot deny the fact that these tyres have more benefits in certain conditions.
- But again the question would arise that on the roads of our country, how often does one face certain conditions while driving to have these kinds of tyres.
- The personal experience of people, however, can vary. For example, in some cases, the rubber went hard on hard surfaces but still, the tyre remained planted and quite stable. Their difference was apparent in normal weather and rainy weather and was worth the cost in case of later.
That’s all from our side. Let us know about your experience regarding the unidirectional tyres, be it bad or good in the comment section below.