Treadwright tires?

[joelster]

Anybody here have experience with Treadwright remolded tires? I have been curious about these for a while. I have a friend who put some on his pickup a while back and he digs 'em. His look like the venerable BF Goodrich AT Radials.

A big part of the reason that I drive an electric truck is to reduce oil consumption and these would seem to be in keeping with that mission. It takes six gallons of oil to make one of these versus eighteen for a new tire plus it keeps a tire out of the landfill. They are definitely economical and sustainable. Any good? Thoughts?

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[Dark-Fx]

Sound terrible but I'm interested in more information too.

 

[joelster]

Sound terrible but I'm interested in more information too.

Reviews are solid.

 

[COdogman]

Pretty interesting. Pricing is fantastic. Would like to read more reviews of how they hold up and perform. The only thing that gives me pause from reading about their process is they say it’s a soft compound. That would help in winter but wear faster.

https://www.treadwright.com/pages/mold-cure-technology

 

[Thedude]

Less than $800 shipped to your door for a set of four. Not bad if are decent quality.

 

[crashmtb]

Pretty interesting. Pricing is fantastic. Would like to read more reviews of how they hold up and perform. The only thing that gives me pause from reading about their process is they say it’s a soft compound. That would help in winter but wear faster.

https://www.treadwright.com/pages/mold-cure-technology

They are probsbly a pain to balance.

 

[COdogman]

They are probsbly a pain to balance.

I spent some time trying to find reviews on their Axiom AT tire. Since Treadwright used to make retreads and now is mold only it’s hard to separate which reviews are for which. Did see quite a few comments about balance, but it didn’t seem any worse than most tires. Not enough reviews anywhere to really make a decision though…

 

[Zoidz]

Read the warranty. Among other things, you can see that they had a two year warranty in the past, but now it's one year warranty.

Also note that airing down voids the warranty. That's a deal breaker for me. I air down every time I go surf fishing.

The biggest issue with retreads - years ago - was high speed separation of the retread which then tears the heck out of your wheel well and fender. It will be interesting to see how these hold up. Not sure I want to save $100 on a tire that might cause thousands in damage.

 

[TollKeeper]

They are not good. Me, and a group of others, bought into them. Constant tire balance issues, no warranty support, mismatched tire casings unless you send them a matched set (which I did)..

If you run a at home, or small business snow plow, I would consider it. But for road use.. NO!

 

[joelster]

OK. Thanks for the responses. Gonna move on...

 

[CommodoreAmiga]

just say no to retreads.

 

[joelster]

To be fair, they are not retreads. But I get ya.

 

[LazarusTaxa]

Im kinda confused.. how are they not retreads?? Sure, they have a different process, but they are still putting a new tread on an old tire?

 

[COdogman]

Im kinda confused.. how are they not retreads?? Sure, they have a different process, but they are still putting a new tread on an old tire?

If I understand correctly, their process is very similar to how a new tire is made. Even a new tire starts with a casing and the tread rubber Is added. Treadwright is simply using recycled casings And adding new molded rubber from bead to bead. An old school retread uses adhesive to attach a new tread.

Someone who knows more about the materials can probably shed more light on the differences, but how Treadwright does it is better than a typical retread.

 

[TollKeeper]

The process is similar to a new tire, but there is a big difference.

On a regular tire, during case making, the steel belted section is tied into the side wall with rubber overlaps, before the full case bonding and vulcanization.

On a recap, they dont go into the sidewall to tie the steel belted section to the side wall. They rely on the re-vulcanization to hopefully tie the 2 separate sections together.

This is why, and where, most recaps fail. Its a complicated, and difficult process to have the sections tie untogether correctly, and completely. I have tire caps that are complete, that the bonding process from tire case to tire cap has completely failed. So we have a Cap, and the tire case, completely separate, but WHOLE.

This is also why my company no longer buys re-caps for our fleet. We had a rash of re-cap failures last year, and each failure cost the company 3-4000 dollars PLUS tires/rims in parts. It also put the vehicle (trailer or truck) out of service for up to 2 weeks.

By the time it was all said and done, each "cap" failure cost the company right around 10-25000 dollars. As you can imagine.. Thats a HUGE number, and really affects the bottom line!

We dont buy "caps" anymore...

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