Not sure how to handle this.

You should have kept on trucking down the road until you got to the next truckstop then it woulda been about $20 Yeah, yeah I know what some people will say about that. Love's charged you about if not right at $2 a mile then they have employee wages per hour, not to mention their own profit, and taxes. Put in that perspective I'd say $503 was a deal cause I wouldn't drive that far for $503 and do some real labor right in the middle of it. Even though truck drivers routinely do cheap or even free stuff all the time you can't really expect others to act the same.

 

I was told during phone call road service would be about $250
Depends how far repair is 10-15 miles maybe. Its a lot cheaper to pay for a roadside tire change than to purchase two wheels and tires.

 

rollin, I think that is a lost art. slow down and get it somewhere.

 

I pull a spread flat and 100k is about the limit. I'm trying out my first full set of recaps on my spread. I currently have 55,600 on them and they still look pretty good. I paid $189 mounted and out the door for each one from Terry's Tire Town in Gerard, OH.

 

Yup, just went into my spread sheet to see what I paid. I think they are $160 each then they charge labor to mount them. I just divided the bill by 8 and it came out to $189 each. They give you a receipt for your old tires and put tags on them. If they are in good shape they look up the numbers next time you come in and if they were good you get $10 trade in for each tire.

The last set of tires I bought were Yokohama. I bought two at a time as they wore out and they were $554 each out the door.

So......With 55,600 on my caps I'm already ahead of the game.

It costs around $75 to recap a tire. I live near a place that does it. Sullivan Tire in Bow, NH. That tells you right there how much they mark up those caps in some places. There's a truck stop about a mile from the place. You can drop your trailer at Sullivans and they can cap your trailer tires in a day or two. You do have to pay the labor to have the tires taken off and mounted but still a lot cheaper.

 

That f irestone is a good tire. I won't run a recap on a low profile tire like that, they just don't hold up. I will run a cap on a tall tire though & I have good luck with those. I have a drop deck with 255's & one with 17.5's and never had good luck with caps on them.

 

Regular tires blow up exactly like recaps. Usually due to being flat. Once a tire goes flat under load getting it repaired doesn't do much good. The sidewall has already become compromised and only a matter of time. I have first hand experience with that.....TWICE! Those gators in the road can be recaps or virgin tires. The sidewalls have Kevlar so they are much stonger then the tread. That's why you see many people come in with 2 sidewalls and no tread.

So, just making a statement is not true that gators are from recaps. They both disintegrate the same way.

Replacing a blow trailer tire doesn't work too well either. The other tire just skims across the ground and 2,000 miles later it's bald.

I'll take some pictures tomorrow of my trailer tires if I can remember and post them.

 

That's what I have and 55,000+ and still look good