good tire deal, not so good tire deal

I decided to try recaps for the first time on my drives and also put 2 on my trailer in December. In the first 5 months I have blown 3 drive tires and destroyed the aluminum half fender on the driver's side of my truck. I got them at Snider Tire in Houston, TX where they have their own recapping plant and say that they use proven Michelin technology. I watch my tire pressures very closely and only run at 65 mph.
I will never make this mistake again.

 

That's a problem with running somebody else's casings. We only use our casings and nothing but michelin retread

 

I'm not a big fan of recaps never rub michlins anyways escape are only good for offroad trucks and construction site trucks my .02

 

I like Michelins, myself. Easy to set the bead...just mount 'em up on the rim & put the air chuck on the valve. If they've been capped a time or two, sometimes you have to roll the tire back and forth a time or two, but once you get the tire setting just right on the rim it starts holding air and sets the bead. No cheater tank. No ether. No hassle at all. If you buy them new, treat them right, and have a quality shop do the retreading, you shouldn't have any issues at all. 6 of the drive tires on my truck are on their 2nd capping. The other 2 are on their 1st capping. Steer tires are virgins.

Now the "fleet" retreads on the company trailer are another story altogether.... I've pulled into a tire shop to have a puncture wound patched and been told "we ain't patching that"....and they showed me where the new puncture wound went right through a previous patch, which was one of at least a dozen patches on the inside of the tire....and 2 of the previous patches were on the SIDEWALL of the tire! Some shops will wrap a new tread around any case that holds air....and those are NOT the tires I want on my truck.

 

just put new drive tires on 517 yokes 16 ply 11r 22.5 with mounting and balancing and what i got out of my old tires came to $2750. i never even look at a recap!

 

i put 4 hankooks on my drives about a month ago and with the casings i paid around $1950. 285 75 24.5

 

You running long haul, or going off-road a lot?

 

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Regardless of the cool aid the re-cappers push high speed applications for re-caps are just road trash waiting for a place to dump or tear up your equipment. If you reuse your own virgin casings it lessens the chance of may-pops but does not guarantee anything without proper tire maintenance.

As one very knowledgable person told me, caps are great for what they are intended for, vocational applications with reduced speed and heat.