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They are junk on commercial vehicles (Semi) Sure they cost $100 less, but when they decide to go south, all that money you have saved, goes into body repairs, etc.

[/ QUOTE ] Who does your recapping? We get a lot of tires recapped for trailers because we run through a LOT of trailer tires. We have 24 sets of trailers with 4 of them being spread axles and they love to destroy tires. I have learned that with commercial capping(never messed with little car and pickup tires) it is all in who recapps them. We use a local McCoy tire shop and we have very little problems with their caps and on the rare occasion that we do, we get a new replacement recap for free.

My personall opinion is that it should be illegal to run recaps on the steer axle of a car or pickup truck just like how it is for commercial trucks, no recaps what so ever on a steer axle and it's a big fine to do it. For good reason IMHO, we had a new front Firestone blow on a 80K lbs gross loaded truck and sent it into a ditch.
 
our boeing 707 tires are recaps and i think they see alot more hard use than truck or car tires /forums/images/graemlins/dunno.gif
 
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My personall opinion is that it should be illegal to run recaps on the steer axle of a car or pickup truck just like how it is for commercial trucks, no recaps what so ever on a steer axle and it's a big fine to do it. For good reason IMHO, we had a new front Firestone blow on a 80K lbs gross loaded truck and sent it into a ditch.

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It is NOT illegal to run retreaded tires on a steer axle of a semi here in Illinois. Only on passenger vehicles like busses.

IMO a retread is just as good as a new casing. You're just throwing away a good tire carcass long before it's used up.

The majority of blown up retreads are due to underinflation which affects all tires equally...not retreads any more than any other tire.
 
The whole explorer/firestone issue should tell you that even "new" tires are subject to issues.

Recaps, at least you know the've done their "Testing" cycle!

Am I still antsy about recaps? A little. But am I 100% trusting in a new tire either? Nope. I've had one to many bubbles in michelins and continentals to say one is better than another.
 
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The whole explorer/firestone issue should tell you that even "new" tires are subject to issues.

[/ QUOTE ] Wasn't that due too Ford Motor Company's impropper infation of those tires ??? That's what I was told. Don't know if it's true or not.
 
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It is NOT illegal to run retreaded tires on a steer axle of a semi here in Illinois. Only on passenger vehicles like busses.



[/ QUOTE ]It is illegal here in California to run any type of recap on a steer axle. Even if it wasn't I still wouldn't put a recap on a steer axle, it's generally not worth the risk. As for trailers and drive axles, they are great. Very rarely do we lose one.
 
Combination of two things-

1. REcommended "underinflation" of the tire for better ride quality.
2. Shoddy manufacturing by Firestone, due to "rebelious" employees.
3. Driver Error- Numerious tests using pyrotechnics to simulate blow out conditions proved that if the driver simply "let go of the wheel", or "held it straight" that no roll over resulted. Unfortunately, most drivers over compensated the truck leaning to the direction of the blown tire, by turning the other way, which resulted in a roll over.

it just happens that shorter wheel base trucks have a greater tendency to be affected by this.

Anyways, back to "steer" axles-I think the law is only there because there are so many variances in retreading- certain companies are better than others. In steer axles, there is only one tire per side, and so your statistical chance of a failure causing loss of control is greater.

(this of course applies to ALL vehicles that use one per steer side). On the rest of the truck, or trailer... there's at least some backup tire (Like a dually for example) should one tire experience a malfunction.
 
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It is NOT illegal to run retreaded tires on a steer axle of a semi here in Illinois. Only on passenger vehicles like busses.



[/ QUOTE ]It is illegal here in California to run any type of recap on a steer axle. Even if it wasn't I still wouldn't put a recap on a steer axle, it's generally not worth the risk. As for trailers and drive axles, they are great. Very rarely do we lose one.

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In California maybe. Not here.

The retreads on my DD are technically illegal though. Retreading any tire that isn't "regroovable" and not branding it as a retread is illegal in IL.
 
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