Re: Thoughts on Treadwright Tire
NEVER
CHEAP
OUT
ON
TIRES
Your life may depend on it.
I would NEVER put re-treads on a vehicle with only 4 tires where your factor of safety for a blow out is ZERO. Retreads are for farm equipment, Dualies you are not towing with, and tractor trailers.
I would also never put garbage chinese tires (Goodride, nankang etc etc) on anything you are going to operate at highway speeds. Ever. Period.
Dont do it.
I agree with qualification.
Having run a 1000 unit bus fleet in Iraq the central workshop had a tire recon unit.
Yes significant saving over new.
The retread caps were supplied by Bridgestone or Sumitomo ,
Fitted to all four wheels on a decker carrying about 85 passengers the performance was "acceptable to good" at city use of ten stops a mile and infrequent bursts of road speed up to 50 mph .
Overall the main issues arose by delamination of the tread by breakdowns of vulcanization of the tread cap coming away from the carcass .
Consequently it was found that any internal tyre carcass that exceeded 75 Celsius of core temperature for a prolonged period would start the breakdown down in vulcanization integrity of the recap.
By caparison a new quality radial of 1100 x 20 bus tyre type could withstand at least 85 C core temperatures for extended periods. This was useful info when in the peak of simmer Iraqi road temps exceeded 100 c.
For that reason remolds are not allowed on steer axle of OTR trucks in Iraq with the State Organization of Land Transport nor here in the USA . .
Dennis