Red Dot on tyres

[grumpy the 7th]

Am I correct in thinking that the red dot on the side wall of a tyre is where it should be fitted closest to the valve 🤔

 

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C7 TNT - it's Dynamite!(Honda Irish Green and Peugeot Graphite grey)

 

[Bozz]

IIRR that is correct

 

Bozz

 

It's not MANGO it's TANGO (McLaren Orange and Black 1.6SS)

[Shaun_E]

Not quite - a yellow dot (if it exists) should be aligned to the valve as yellow is the light point of the tyre. A red dot shows the tyres high spot and should be aligned to a notch in the wheel which shows the wheel's low spot. Lots of information in the Tyre Bible. The bit on coloured dots is nearly half way down.

 

Yellow SL #32

 

Edited by - Shaun_E on 26 Sep 2005 16:39:44

[Tony C]

From an aircraft engineering point of view: the red dot is the lightest point on the tyre and should be positioned adjacent to the valve. The mobile tyre fitter I use says the same thing.

 

As the tyre Bible says - the difference is small. I've seen tyre fitted to car wheels with neither colour dot adjacent to anything visible 😬

 

BRG Brooklands SV 😬 It seems that perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)