Tires howling after being reversed on the wheels

[AJMBLAZER]

My Tracker has some small BFG AT's on it. Guy I got it from figured you didn't need to correct the steering with 2" of lift despite the tires sitting like this \ /. I've fixed that but the tires were noticeably more worn on the outside than the inside. When I had it aligned in August the tire place also swapped the tires around on the rims so that the side of the tires that were on the inside are now on the outside. Figured since the tires were still in good shape other than the wear and only a few years old I'd try to get another year or two out of them.

Only thing is now I'm getting a howl while going down the road. Started a month or so ago...or at least that's when I noticed it. Not Boggers on the freeway howl but I've had mud terrains that were quieter. Sort of a loud humm. Alignment appears to be good still and it drives the same (great compared to before).

The tread doesn't appear to be scalloped or worn funny other than the (now) inside edge of the tires being worn thinner than the rest of the tread. Is this howl normal if you reverse the tread? Basically the tread is now spinning around backward of how it used to for the first 20k miles of their life.

 

[dhcomp]

Swap front to rear?

Not a whole lot that can be done, unfortunately.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

I'm not THAT worried about it. Just want to be able to quiet the voice in my head going "is the alignment out again?"

Actually, I have an oil change and tire rotation coming up whenever I get a chance.

 

[Blue85]

Tires naturally tend to develop a bit of a slope on the tread blocks based on the direction of rotation. When you turn them around, they never seem to wear back to flat, though. Once tires start getting loud, they never go back to quiet, IMO.

If they flipped them on the rims, then you only need to swap sides to have them rotate in the other direction again. I guess you/they are trying to get more life out of the tires this way, which is fine, but you might have to live with the noise. If only the front was worn funny, then swap sides AND front to rear and you should be back in business.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

They're worn all around on the now inside edges. I'll just do my usual rotations and live with the noise. It isn't horrible. I've had mud tires that were louder.