treadwright tires? retread tires? and general tires
 

okay so ive been searching around for tires but i found treadwright tires all they seem to carry are retreads ? are they safe? i know back in the day retreads sucked are they even street legal? thanks


that and anyone use general brand tires? ive read good reviews but no personal reviews

I have a set of treadwrights guard dog tires and i have had them on for 3 yrs with no problems. I have never had a skin come off or anything. I offroad with them and pull a gooseneck trailer with around 10 ton on it all the time. They even ride really smooth for aggressive tires.

Retreaded tires are street legal, and widely used in the trucking industry. Pay attention to your air pressure and quality retreads will probably be as good as new manufacture. Low quality is low quality whether new or retread. :yeah:

sweet thanks guys avge tire life on em ? and i drive alot on the highway to work then work on the farm after work so they will get used well what base tire do they normal use to retread? bfgs?

Treadwright's may be good retreads, but there's no way thier as good as new, they are used tires with new tread glued on more or less :nope:

yeah but id rather spend 150 per tire than 350 a tire or 400 its gone through the roof

The adhesive process is a little more complex than just gluing. I did tons of research before I bought mine

You're right I just simplified it for the post, my point is they are used tires. i understand you sell them and are gonna talk them up good. I'm not gonna gain or lose anything from this thread and am just putting the facts out there. :c:

i paid about 166 per tire for mine. then a case of beer to cover the mount and balance :tu:

I paid 150 a piece for my brand new Bridgestone Deuller REVO's, Mounted, balanced, with road hazard warranty. 285/75R16 load range D. :tu:

When you get into the 17s the prices change dramatically if I could find that deal I would go that route but till then I will keep buying Treadwright. Im not doing sales right now do to a illness my wife has had lately but hope to be back at it soon.

I hear a lot of good about the General Grabbers. (the red letter tires.)
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I have a little experience with the general grabber UHP's and they were great tires, but none with all terrains or mud terrains (do they make mud tires?)

Where did you get that deal? If I can get a price like that on some decent mud tires, it might be worth the trip. Course I think those are street tires, I haven't priced those for a while.

They are a hwy tread...

If Treadwright offered a 37/17 I would be all over it...

i personlly would never run a retread. i've seen way to much damage when they come apart. i'd run michelin or firestones for hwy, neither are much of a mud tire but i'm past the mud stage of my life! if you do run retreads, tire pressure is critical!!!! the cheap ass i used to drive for would run retreads all the time on trailers and i never had a problem but i checked the air every time i hooked up to a trailer...

Less than 10% of the peeled tires you find on the side of the road come from retreads.I have done allot of research on retreads and the pros deffinetaly outway the cons.

They were on sale at the Firestone store buy one get one free, the catch was you had to get them installed and buy road hazard warranty. just over 600 for them installed with warranty, sometimes it pays to shop around :tu::tu::tu: I worked in the tire business for 20 years, I've seen enough to know I will never run recaps unless it's on a dual wheel axle. :c:

I've ran treadrights and never had an issue with over 30K on them on my old work truck. Beat the snot outa them pulling skid steers and dump trailers. Literally chewed the tread right off them by spinning and never split. Aren't they still offering that warranty that if they delaminate they buy you a new set or fix the damage or somethin like that??

I remember little tires.... Gotta love gettin over 110K on a set of 22.5's:tu:

Yes they still have a 20.000mi warranty.it blows me away how people are so close minded about things when they don't know all the facts.

i have ran 2 sets from treadwright..they are sturdy but its a very soft rubber and on my 99 dodge i only get about 20,000mi out of them at the very most..surprisingly the rocks don't really chew them up since they are so soft but i wouldnt be worried about them peeling off they are made good just very soft tread

All major line recaps (bandag, oliver, etc) have warrantys , and what qualifications do you have to be the expert here ?

Im by no means the expert.I just did tons of research before I trusted the safety of my family on these tires.I can't afford these high dollar brand names.so I will settle for the second best thing.didn't mean to upset anyone.I apologize.

I'm not upset, but I have been driving company trucks several times when a retread came apart, and I wouldn't wanna be driving a srw when that happened especially if I owned it. :c:

it amazes me how much tires are now a days if they were cheaper i would buy new ones last time i bought tires they were 350 a piece for bfg a/t at discount tire.and personally i don't like Firestone I've had them before and they rode horrible tires don't hold up like a few years ago. I've read a lot of reviews online never heard anything bad on tread-wright's tires great mudding tires and street tires. its just a great home grown company who produces great tires for a great price.

sounds a little far fetched to me.

I've seen that 10% number in a lot of retread industry literature. How many tires on the road are recaps to begin with? I don’t have industry wide numbers, but I know I personally install 15-20 original tread tires, new or used, for every recap installed. So recaps making up 10% of failures isn't so far out of line. The main cause of tire failure is heat from running the tire underinflated, this can be caused by road debris, leaking valvestem, cracked rim, etc. and will destroy a tire whether its new or recap. Get quality tires and maintain their air pressure, you'll probably be alright. From what I've seen treadwrights seem ok,you'll have to make that call yourself. :c:

In the trucking industry there are probably more caps than new in use on any given day and as far as road gators the last study I saw (wich was years ago) had the numbers at about 60/40 and I cant remember if it was more retreads or less, but either way I've never seen it as one sided as 90/10. Maybe they were only studying passenger/LT tires who knows. :c:

Yeah, I guess they probably install a lot of caps at company terminals,I was just thinking about my personal experience. The trucks I see have more original tread than caps, but it might be a pretty close ratio. The 10% number I saw was in literature direct from the recap companies, so you can imagine how accurate it is:humm:

parts on the side of the road u see is due to a few things one the trailer brakes did not release it happens all the time and it rubs a hole in one side of the tread making it weaker then heat from a long haul can cause them to blow. i see a ton of retreads on container trucks and they are the cheapest p.o.s tires ive ever seen company's spend as little as they can with those trailer tires and the number is more like 20 of those fail so that where the 20% or w.e the % was said earlier. and finally truckers not checking the pressure of their tires and the rims dig into the tire so its ripping it apart. tread-right truck tires are good if you take care of it they are good tires DOT standards for them are very high for pickup truck tires they are higher than semi tires because semis can not run retreads on front steer tires they only use retreads on none retread tires.

Most tires fail due to being run low on air pressure, no matter what the cause. :c:

I be been running treadwright tires forabout 15 years no problems , also have about 15 others turned on to them only one problem out of all those tires and it wasn't from being a retread. I love em and would have a hard time going anywhere else.