danmdevries wrote:I didn't know retreads were still a thing.
Big thing.
$820 for a new virgin Goodyear 295/75/22.5 heavy duty tire
Versus
$35& for a retread
Of course 8-12 days ago the same tire blew so now the cost of the new tire, plus labor and incidentals add close to $1,000 to the bill from 2 weeks ago. Would have been much cheaper to buy a new tire.
I’m not an engineer but it seems some things stick right out. Every time metal flexes it weakens. So I’d guess there is a finite number of flexes before a side wall fails which is what happened here (thread was in excellent condition, still like new). So to make a retread a company takes a tire shell of unknown residual sidewall life and adds a new tread cap. In the end, they have absolutely no idea how long the tire will last because they cannot do a visual inspection of actual sidewall condition.
In my case the tire lasted less than 2 weeks.
Shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the price difference is marginal, but exposure to other negatives is of high potential.