Why Retread?

[OilPatch197]

Tell you what, retreading tires causes SO much CRAP to be on the roads, I drive twenty miles to work on county highways, and there is always one or two "alligators" on, or on the side of the road... IF YOUR REALLY LUCKY, you will drive thru when a retread comes flippin apart and you get to drive over all the wires and rubber pieces on the road!

We've never retread, but I know people who do and sooner or later the tread comes off and of course they don't pick it up, just leave it there on the road!

 

[rangerbum]

Retread when its an off-road only rig that you dont want to spend 800 bucks on new rubber.

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

or for semis..their tires arent exactly "cheap" either.

FYI, a non-retreaded tire can fail in such a way as to create an "alligator" too...so dont be so fast to blame it all on retreads.

 

[CJREX]

We always called them "recapatoids".

While a regular tire may fail in a similar manner, it seems the vast majority of the recapatoids are semi-truck tires.

They are the primary reason I won't ride next to a big truck. Saw a recap beat the devil out of a Buick alongside a trailer before the Buick driver knew what was going on.

 

[Hahnsb2]

I wouldn't trust a retread further than I can throw one. My dads semi had 12 of the 18 tires re-treads when he bought it, lost all retreads within a year and replaced them with virgin tires as they blew out and never had a problem. The other 18 years he drove for companies that used virgin tires only and never lost one.

 

[Shran]

I would retread tires that I use offroad. I actually have a set of 33" swampers that I'm going to do one of these days. But for highway use...no!

 

[Destroyer000]

i have a set of 31s i bought from treadwright an use them for the winter.. awesome tire for the price...

 

[Will]

Unsubstantiated racial remarks = no. I unapproved two posts here, for the two guys wondering what happened to their work.

No hitting below the Rio Grande, this is Queensbury rules.

 

[Jason]

Retreads , like normal tires, usually fail when the pressures are not right causing the tire to run over heated. The trucking company my friend owns runs both retreads and new tires and their failures are about even. When they do catch a separating tire before it lets loose it is always low on air pressure.

Retreads aren't for me but they aren't the source of tire evil.

 

[86ford]

Retreads , like normal tires, usually fail when the pressures are not right causing the tire to run over heated. The trucking company my friend owns runs both retreads and new tires and their failures are about even. When they do catch a separating tire before it lets loose it is always low on air pressure.

Retreads aren't for me but they aren't the source of tire evil.

you got it right, this reminds me of the people that act like TTB is wizards work because they dont understand it.

86

 

[AllanD]

Recaps can be excellent tires but that is vvariable depending on the quality of workmanship by the recapper.

Like with new "virgin" tires there is good stuff and there is crap.

If you buy the cheapest garbage based only on price you get what
you pay for.


Recaps are done similarly to the way virgin tires are constructed
in the first place and it's the prep and bonding that makes all the difference.

I'd put up say a Bondus recap against most virgin tires.

But that being said If I were a trucker I'd run caps on a trailer,
but never on the tractor.

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[Bob Ayers]

A lot of the semi tires are also re-grooveable which creates new tread when it wears down.

 

[ZMan]

We always called them "recapatoids".

While a regular tire may fail in a similar manner, it seems the vast majority of the recapatoids are semi-truck tires.

They are the primary reason I won't ride next to a big truck. Saw a recap beat the devil out of a Buick alongside a trailer before the Buick driver knew what was going on.

Mythbusters did a test on this....a piece of flying tire could actually bust out your window and kill you.

 

[Evan]

There are just as many alligators from virgin tires as there are from retreads. Just about all tire failures, both retread and virgin, occur from incorrect inflation, overloading, and overwearing/aging.

Retread tires are safe. I have owned several sets and they performed great.

 

[Shran]

People's trailer tires are especially bad too. I know I am guilty of putting trailer tires down as last priority. My buddy's work has a flatbed trailer that they use mobile home tires on...blow one, easy to find a replacement!