Retread Tires, who uses them? From CalRecycle.
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2011
- Retread tires are safe and less expensive than new tires. Using retread tires also helps keep tires out of the landfill. Hear how Californians have been successfully using retread tires. To learn more about reducing, reusing, and recycling, please go to www.CalRecycle.ca.gov. A transcript of this program is available by request
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A properly maintained retreaded tire is just as safe as a new tire. I never use one on steer but I had really good results on drive axles and trailers. Remember a PROPERLY MAINTAINED RETREADED tire. Half the cost yes and just as safe. I’ve been an Otr driver for 22 years. Tire failures are caused by neglect from the drivers.
Steer axle retreads are commonly used on local delivery trucks and local vocational trucks such as dump trucks, garbage trucks, and concrete mixer trucks. They tend to travel at slower speeds and have strict rules for such use.
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Retreads on fire trucks for the fire department mentioned are probably not used in the steer axle position though.
Just watched a cdl pre trip inspection video. According to one school, steering tires are not allowed to be recapped but the rest are acceptable. Other than that I presume it depends on how well the owner trusts them for the particular job. I also presume they require more care. A new tire can go flat, have the leak plugged, reinflated and it's good to go. A recapped tire probably needs to be recapped again, even after riding a short distance a little low (not stating this as fact, just presuming).
I had flats with my passenger car recaps, just had the shop patch it for free, and back on the road. That was decades ago, with old technology recaps (1967, my first car, until recaps phased out in mid-1980's. -I always ran quality recaps warrantied from JCPenney Tire and Auto Center).
American passenger cars back in the 1960's on, when passenger size recaps were sold, were heavier than cars now, with suspension that, by today's standards, was inferior. The greater weight and inferior suspension, subjected those old-technology retread tires to more stress than what could be expected with cars today.
Recapped upto 4 times? Is that even safe maybe highway isn't a good idea to drive at least a daily driver
Depends on the quality of the original tire casing. A top of the line tire, especially if the belting is a cool running synthetic fiber such as aramid (Kevlar).
Hmm, fire trucks aren't supposed to use retreads. I fully trust retreads, but there is laws on the fire trucks.
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We just wonder why carbon fiber is not used on tires.
Dangerous! Illegal to use on school buses, fire trucks, ambulances in my state. I had to install them for over 25 years and many, many failed! When they fail, they can be deadly to anyone that is following, not to mention the damage they can do to a wheel well! We (a major company I worked for) stopped using them many years ago because of the failure rate! We were also not permitted to install them on the front axle because of the failure rate and we used a few different companies to purchase them from! Do you really want to save a few bucks and risk killing someone?
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