Retread tire cost

I had 8 drives capped with Goodyear unicircle about 4 or 5 years ago and it cost about $1,800. Probably gone up since then. From the looks of it what some of you paid for caps I got hosed on that. They were good tires and I did get my money's worth out of them. Got lazy one summer and quit keeping up with air pressures though. After the second one popped I decided it was time to get new tires. Luckily they didnt tear a bunch of **** up when they blew.

 

Drives cost a bit more than trailer tires so that may have been a fair price.
Years ago we quite capping brand XYZ. It was a first line tire. When capped they would blow one in eight on a regulator basis with sidewall failures. XYZ has long since corrected that. Who is the new XYZ?

 

No idea. I know when my retreads blew out I saw sidewall bulges the very day that they blew. I got lazy about checking air pressures but I am always looking at my tires sometimes several times a day. One day my truck was in the shop and I saw a sidewall bulge and thought to myself, hmmmmm, that doesnt look so good. Several hours later on the highway *boom* and that tire was history. A week or so later I saw the same thing and again the same thing happened.

When I got home I had already decided to get new rubber and when I pulled the old caps off found another sidewall bulge "ticking timebomb". I got over 200,000 miles on those caps which I thought was pretty good. The tire casings were Yokohama and I had owned them since new. Got over 600,000 miles out of those casings at a total cost of $5,000.

 

Times 2........

 

I don't have a problem with caps as long as they are from a reputable manufacturer like bandag or Michelin. Before I drove I worked for a major leasing company and all they ran were bandag caps. Out of 1000s of tires in 9 years i saw one new one peel the cap off, one old one leaked between cap and casing, and one blew on our service truck with me driving. It failed at a previous repair, I had been speeding severely so I don't blame the tire (young and dumb). I did see one oddball stm trailer cap on Dunlop casing with no dot#, load, or pressure rating, which was pretty weird.

 

It's almost always the sidewalls. If you could have your virgin tires capped, I suppose that's ok, and you'll have to wait, they don't cap tires overnight, but to just go out and buy a recap, that casing could have half a million miles on it and they will grind the date off, I've seen that too. I doubt their quality control is very rigid.

 

I think I was just replying to the OP