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I never understood The weird zig zag tire tread pattern. I've seen those on 50's vehicles that have been setting in fields. It couldn't have provided very much traction especially against hydroplaning due to the tread pattern not pushing water out. There was a tire company in Colorado that was mixing silicon with the rubber but I don't think they're still around.
My father worked with the Canadian Federal Tax Department (our IRS) and had occasions to work with some guys that were in the RCMP, the conversation he had with one of them led him to try recapped tires for the 1972 Ford Galaxie 500 that was used by his two boys. Dad didn't give a hoot about safety or styling, it was all about $$ savings...I did my level best as a 17 year old to make those POS tires explode, fail, melt.
Despite my efforts these things lasted 3 years before the car was traded and left me without wheels ;O(
Despite my efforts these things lasted 3 years before the car was traded and left me without wheels ;O(
I worked at a recapping shop in High School. I remember the failure rate was pretty high but a customers Full size Buick could be shod with 4 recaps for $80 OTD in about 1970. They should have been outlawed decades ago! large trucks can still use recapped tires on drive axles and trailers but should be outlawed altogether nationwide as well!
My Dad ran recaps on a lot of vehicles. I ran recapped snows on my early vehicles. Never a failure. Temperatures were pretty moderate where we lived. We didn't do a lot of high speed driving either. Much of it was gravel roads.
Why?? Recaps have come a long way since 1970. The debris you see along the highway is when the tire itself fails - usually from a road hazard. If you see wire, the tire failed, not the recap.
I couldn’t disagree more with your opinion on recaps. 1970 recaps can’t be compared to today’s recaps. The company I work for purchased $600,000 worth of large truck tires last year with about half of them recaps. They are far superior to the new china bomb tires that many fleets are switching to. We have zero trouble with our recaps. We use our own carcasses nothing over eight years old and they’re done locally great quality. They work awesome on our drive tires for our dump trucks.
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There are 2 things about that ad: thread rather than thread and the 2 to 1. With the latter you wore down the summer tread and you were left the mud/snow tread. Not very sophisticated but it was 1950.
Also phone number was 3 digits.
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I wish they still made them for cars. I'd happily put them on our (wife and me) vehicles if the savings were as huge as I'd imagine it would be. We don't do any crazy driving or anything, just mellow daily driving and fun weekend day trips. I'd feel perfectly safe having them on our cars. As bmod305 says, the technology has gotten much better. In fact I've watched videos showing the process, it's pretty cool. It's too bad they'll likely never be offered for passenger vehicles again though due to our litigious country.
I drove class 8 trucks for 45 years and have blown dozens of recapped tires and have seen accidents from vehicles running over ‘ gators ‘ . I’ve had them rip cross members from under the trailers I was pulling at interstate speeds. There’s a reason why they’re illegal on the steering axles of large trucks. In all my years of driving I never had a virgin casing of a tire explode. Ever witnessed a motorcycle hitting a 6 foot long piece of a retread rubber? The retread tire lobby in D.C. and crooked politicians is the reason they’re still allowed on our highways. I personally would never even consider buying a recap tire even if they were legal. I haven’t seen a car or light truck recap shop in years for a reason.
Some recappers will cap a casing 5 or 6 or more times to save money. Just for grins and giggles if a class 8 truck tire has gone 50,000 mile per cap x 6 caps, the casing sidewall has more than likely aged out age and mileage wise and is still carrying 80,000 lbs at 70 mph in 100 degree heat. It’s a ticking time bomb waiting to explode!
I purchased recap full lug snow tires a couple of times in the early-mid 1970's. They did well. I made sure not to do higher speeds. The one city recap shop back then has been gone forever. Just like generator/ starter rebuild shops and radiator shops.
So 4 recaps is OK??
Some tire manufacturers have guarantees for multiple retreads on the same casing. I think that means they have data supporting that - and if they have data, they don't need crooked politicians.
And the reason that passenger car and light truck tires aren't retreaded is that the cost of retreading is almost the cost of a new one - so it doesn't generate much revenue, so it's not done very often.
Buit there are federal regulations about which tires are allowed to be retreaded. So it isn't like they haven't addressed the issue!
Here's my page on the subject: Barry's Tire Tech: Retreading
I am opposed to retread over the road truck tires. My reason is simple. I had to pay out of my pocket (what my insurance didn't cover) to fix the hood and grill of my then 1991 Ford Ranger. I was traveling at highway speed and the car in front of me struck a piece of retread. It came out from underneath that car and was airborne. It hit the center front edge of my hood and center grill. It's a scary feeling seeing a huge chunk of rubber coming at you.
If you ride a motorcycle like I did for many years, please take my advice and stay way back from semi-trucks. A piece off one of those tires can take your head off. Be safe and stay way back.
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Yep, and summer will be gator season when the asphalt gets hot.
Most tires on large aircraft are recapped.
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