I was stuck in rush hour traffic a few days ago, so I started
looking around. I was looking around, and saw a familiar
tire - a Yokohama AVS ES100 on the rear of a Civic. I
had that particular tire on my Integra before it was stolen.
The car was recovered, but the wheels weren't. In fact, the
thieves were **ahem** "nice enough" to replace them with bald
tires on steel wheels.

The strange thing I noticed since were were stopped at times
was that the rear tire I saw was oriented backwards. These
are directional tires, and the "chevron" should be pointed
forward at the top. I thought about telling the guy, but we
weren't stopped long enough. I'm not sure if they were mounted
that way (intentionally?) or perhaps rotated that way.

So what's the worst that could happen. My guess is that it
might not wear as well. Could there be possible safety problems?