problem with supersingles

We found any money saved in fuel/weight was counterd by not being able to "limp" home. If the tire is not used untill end of tread life the cost of replacement was horrible, even more so if we are out at night. We are local so it may be different if your otr.

 

If they make 'em, they can cap 'em.

I wouldn't buy caps on someone else's cases. However, I am currently in the process of capping the tires I bought new 2 years ago. I know they have never been run low, never been curbed, and can count on one hand the number of patches/plugs in all 10 tires on one hand. The drives are being capped with the OEM tread. The steers are being capped the same as the drive to have as spares. I only run virgins on the steer.

As long as you have good cases, recaps will work just fine. The trouble is, when you buy someone else's cases, you don't know what you are buying.

to make that switch, he'd be buying 8 rims as well as the 8 tires, instead of only buying 4 tires. The super singles are roughly twice the price of conventional duals, so on the tires he'd break even...however he would still have the cost of the rims. He MIGHT be able to offset that cost a little by trading his used super single rims and further lessen his cost by purchasing refurbished steel rims instead of new aluminum ones.

When you break it down, it's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. Both set-ups have their pros and cons...and without knowing what exactly he does, it's tough to give advice in that regard.

 

Exactly, they can cap everything including tires for jet airliners. Funny how people are totally against recaps but millions and millions of people run them every day with ZERO issues. It's been our experience and the local retread shop is the people who have problems buy cheap tires to begin with, run them low on air and run them too long before capping. We've ran them for probably 20yrs and have had so few cap problems that I can't remember the last failure. In fact the last 3 tire explosions were from virgin tires and one had less than 10,000 miles (all name brand tires i.e. Goodrich, Michelin, Bridgestone) Also we use them on mostly spread axle trailers (another no-no according to some people)

Funny how people are so quick to throw out "just swap to duals" or when the issue of gearing comes up they say "just switch your 22.5's to 24.5's without ever considering the cost of the swap. We have 2 trucks/trailers on X1's. They work for the application their being used (light daycabs pulling grain hoppers locally) BUT I personally don't want them on anything long distance or that hauls heavy (only rated for like 10,500 each) and the sad part is their more expensive than 2 tires and are not really any lighter than 2-22.5LP tires on alum wheels however they do roll easier.

gerardo1961, as far as the tire(s) you have that are bad, can the shop recap the casings you have?

 

bandag's are ok ,butt if you send em 10 tires they send 5 back, failed inspection

 

That's exactly what you want. The tire shop we use have pretty strict standards on what they'll cap and what they won't. We've sold casings that failed to local farmers (who didn't care and just wanted cheap) and they took them to another shop and they capped them. Some held a few exploded, funny how any money saved buying cheap failed casings or old virgin tires is lost when the tire tears up your trailer. A blown tire will tear the hell out of the rear of a hopper. One guy had the tire blow and rip the ladder and light panel completely off.

 

Keep the tires properly aired up...don't run 'em low.

Keep off the curbs and steer the truck around large potholes.



Just doing those two things will give you more tires that pass the inspection. When you abuse 'em, they are going to fail.