directional tire question

[frank@zk3.dec.com (Douglas Frank USG)]

Hi all,

I just had a set of snows mounted on the spare rims for my A4.  I had the
brilliant idea that one of them could substitute for the spare, replacing
the tinkertoy minature spare tire the factory supplies.

The potential problem is, the snow tires I bought (Dunlop Winter Sport M2's)
are marked with a rotation arrow.  What happens if I have to mount it on the
'wrong' side, so it rotates backwards?  I bet it'd be as noisy as the 4th of
July in hell, but would it be unsafe?

thanks for any BTDT,

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--Doug

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