How do flat spotted tires wear

I’ve put fronts that rivered and basically had flat spots starting and moved them back.

I run max air pressure and they wore fine….

I’d probably try it

 

For $800 I’d try them and see what happens.

 

My experience is the tires only as good as it’s flat spot. That’s on a Trailer. Doesn’t matter 1 or 2. Doesn’t matter if mounted opposite. They wear out at the flat spot, or river wear, cupping gets worse. The exception is on drives. Just the opposite. I’ve ran old steers with a worn outer edge, river wear, cupped. Doesn’t matter. They’ll run forever wearing only the good tread. Outer edge doesn’t get any worse. I can only imagine it’s because of torque vs. free spinning Trailer tires? Maybe bad shocks on Trailer? No idea. Whatever the reason. I’ve seen it time and time again. I’ve only bought 12 new drives since 2009. 1.7 mil miles. Lol. Always new steer’s every 130-150k. Right one wears on outside edge. I’ve sometimes waited too long. Put old steers on drive, side by side worn edge inside of inner. Tire lasts just as long as the evenly worn steer. Usually another 130-150k till I buy another set of steers.

 

You'll never wear the tire out to be even with the flat. It'll always be the low point.

 

Technically they would be considered unroadworthy, however not so bad if you used them on the rear of the trailer, I would never run them on the drives, and definitely a no for the steers. But you can still get a lot of life out of them.

 

As long as they measure 2/32 and don’t have cuts they are legal.

At least here in the new 3rd world

 

Years ago didn’t some people spin balance tires and use a chisel or some sort of knife to cut high spots .. As long as they don’t thump I’d run them it’s a relatively soft sidewall so it might not be bad.