Patent ID: 7086439

Claim:
A process for mounting a pneumatic tire onto a vehicle, said tire comprising a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions extending inward from both side parts of the tread portion in a radial direction, a bead portion continuously connected to an inner end of the sidewall portion in the radial direction, a carcass reinforcing these portions, a belt arranged on an outer circumferential side of a crown portion of the carcass, and a reinforcing member comprised of at least one rubberized cord reinforcing layer arranged in a tire zone including at least each of the sidewall portions and extending from each bead portion to a radial height substantially greater than a radial height of a flange of a rim on which the tire is mounted, wherein a shearing rigidity of the reinforcing member in the circumferential direction, which serves to apply a braking force to the tire, arranged in the same tire at a posture of mounting the tire onto a vehicle is made larger at a first tire zone located at an outside of the vehicle than at a second tire zone located at an inside of the vehicle among the above tire zones, and wherein tires having the above construction are mounted onto the vehicle on left and right sides with respect to a center line of the vehicle in a widthwise direction thereof so that the reinforcing members arranged in the first tire zone and second tire zone are symmetrical with each other in both the tires with respect to the above center line.