Make Recap Tires Illegal

Call BS all you want but it doesn't change the fact virgin tires can and do blow like caps. I've lost 3 virgin tires in the last 3 years which is more than any of the caps I've lost in the last 10 yrs. 2 were BFGoodrich and the last was a General/Continental all less than a yr old.

If you don't want to run them then don't. But there are plenty of guys that run them and have ZERO issues. Almost everyone I know that has had cap issues bought a capped tire from a tire shop instead of capping their own casings. If the tire is abused as a virgin and manages to survive, the casing should not be capped. Not because the cap will fail but because the abused casing will fail, then guys like you blame the cap.

 

I asked the guy from wingfoot after I posted this as he was replacing my tire out of every 100 blowouts he changes how many are recaps and he even stated 99... I have no idea where you all come up with these idea's that virgin tires blow. 20 years military/comercial and counting and not 1 blown yet.... Maybe your using the wrong virgins, try Bridgestone, Goodyear, and Michelins, that is all I use..... Recaps are a danger to everyone on the road period.....

 

I use to use recaps and had several blow, only use virgins for last several years and havent had any blow yet.

 

It don't take a study to tell you what you see first hand in the field with your own eyes and your on equipment. As far as I am concerned this is the biggest cover up I have seen and money has to be slipping under the desk.

 

Ah yes, because wreckless4thf's anecdotal observations are obviously more reliable than anything from The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

 

All you got to do is look over this thread pal to see how many others share my observation while still others are completely the opposite to know that it can't be all one way or the other. I call BS and have my own facts from being on the road for a long time. Landstar uses psi systems on all of there trailers and I have been with them for over 5 years now. They used to never put on a recap unless a trailers tires got stolen in Mexico and they had to put them on there and we NEVER (did you get that) NEVER get blow outs. They changed toward the last of 2010 and started running the pos's and bam. I have had 5 blow outs since late last year!!! Those are facts and for another example I have owned my own truck for 7 years now and I have NEVER (did you get that) NEVER had a blow out on any of my virgin tires!!! I can't even begin to count all the years of blowouts I have had pulling company trailers over the years I have been trucking and they all if my memory serves me were recaps. Now, do I need some Michican Institute to tell me I must be crazy? Whoever says that recap tires are as good or near as good and safe as a virgin tires does not know what he/she is talking about. I guess the guy from Wingfoot was as crazy as I am lmao. Any truck driver that has done his time on the road knows the truth to this story. Now you all can carry on the bs charade for as long as you like but I just got a kick on reading the BS posted here just like some of the other stuff I have read hahaha.

 

There are a lot of misconceptions about retreaded tires and many of those have been discussed in this forum.

One constant misconception we hear is that all the rubber on the road is from retreaded tires. There have been numerous independent studies looking at this issue and they all come to the same conclusion. Most recently, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published a study in 2008 (Commercial Medium Tire Debris Study - Report No: DOT HS 811 60) in which they collected almost 1,500 pieces of tire fragments from the roads. The study concluded that the fragments they found were from NEW and retreaded tires in equal proportion to their service on the roads and had almost nothing to do with the manufacturing or retreading process. The top 2 types of damage they discovered from the debris studied were the result of road hazards (39%) and excessive heat (30%) from improper inflation or other abuse. If you replaced every retreaded tire on the road today with new tires, you would still have tires coming apart and the same amount of rubber on the road. As others have stated on this forum, proper inflation and maintenance of your tires, whether new or retreaded are the most important factors in preventing tire failures.

Lastly, not only does retreading save fleets, owner operators, and federal and local governments a great deal of money, but it's also very environmentally friendly. The manufacture of a new medium truck tire requires approximately 22 gallons of oil, but it takes only seven gallons to retread the same tire. Every year in North America, the use of retreaded tires saves hundreds of millions of gallons of oil and keeps millions of tires out of landfill.

Thank you for letting me post. Information provided by the Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau

 

Ok I have changed my mind, I am going to go out today and buy me a brand new set of recaps!! I must have been blowing virgins all these years and don't know quit what I was talking about!! Thanks for setting me straight truckers forum and thanks for saving me the money difference I'd of wasted on those stupid. Virgin tires.

 

The only time I've ever seen virgin rubber blow like a 'recap' is when some nubnik runs around with 60-70lbs in the tires... Check your tire pressure fools!

Do recaps save $$$? My boss thankfully says NO, and my experience with them also says NO! Let's see, virgin rubber may cost about 100-150 more per tire than a 'decent' recap. Then, add in a lost fender, rear light assembly, quarter fender, break chamber, ect. ect. lost when a cap comes off and the $100-150 extra for a virgin tire seems like the only way to fly.