Anyone ever use treadwright retreads? How are they on the highway? How do they wear? I'm looking at getting some 285/70/17 gaurd dog MTs. I only offroad about once every 2 months and about 3 times a year I go trail riding/mudding at my grandparent and I'm tired of getting stuck in the orange clay. I was thinking about getting toyoAT2s, but these look really good and they are cheep. For the price I would be happy with 35,000 miles. I really don't care about the noise as long as it isn't to extream.


Thanks

 

You might try a search because I remember at least one other thread on here, but I wouldn't run retreads no matter how cheap they are.

 

I havn't seen any threads on any of the forums I go on that had an issue. But that being said I have only seen 5 or 10 threads of people using them. While it is a small sample 0 failures seems like a good track record.


I can tell you semi trucks have been running retreads for ever and the only issue they have is if the driver doesn't maintain proper air pressure. Otherwise they perform just like a virgin tire.

 

There's rubber all over the highway's from semi retread's and they are not allowed to run them of the front for a reason...I would pass...

 

But they are still required to have non-retread tires on the steering axle. There is a good reason for that!

 

Thought I just said that...

 

Oops.

 

I thought they might be frowned apone here...

You really cant compare an f150 to a 30000 pound simile truck tho. I'm not driving hundred of miles every day or towing 1000s of pounds regularly. I also cheack my tire pressure at whey file up. I haven't seen any bad reviews, but I really haven't seen many post either.

 

I mean you can try them if you want. I certainly would never recommend a retread tire to any of my customers though.

 

I mean I don't want to try them if they will blow out within the first couple thousand miles. I just don't have the money right now, nor will my parents let me spend the money on some MT tires. even if I did have the money, chances are the tire would still be "a waste of money" to my parents and they still wouldn't let me buy them. I know you get what you pay for. but they paid for half of the truck and I paid for the other half, so its not completely mine. they really don't want me spending more than $700 on tires and that's the ABSOLUTE max. Im hoping to be able to sell all 4 of my current tire for about $150 total (About 30% tread left). Im only 16 so I cant really wait until I move out to get the tires. I have been saving up for a while for these tires, and I have a job, its not like its my parents giving me money or anything like that.


anyways. from what I have read the Treadwrights are made different from standard retreads. unstead of glueing the treads on, likesimi retreads, they are actually melted onto the tire. I have also read stories about tire shops not knowing that they are retreads when they are being balanced until the costumer says something about the tire. This all could be completely false, but it just what I have heard and read.