2013 BS / Chat Thread!

[Remps]

Recaps aren't allowed as steer tires on commercial vehicles here either. Finally ordered a headlight housing for the 98 rav4 from Andy's auto sport. 150 bucks shipped, better than the 400 Toyota wanted. A deer did a hit and run on me this summer, smashed my headlight housing. Wasn't going to pay a 700 deductible on my insurance to replace a 150 dollar headlight.

[cmann250]

I'm currently trying to think of a fair test for the retreads. Ideas?

My new tire of choice would be Firestone's TransForce AT. I was thinking of running 2 retreads and 2 new tires at the same time. Without any prior retread experience, I hesitate to run them on the front. How about this? Run 2 retreads on the back now and when the fronts I have wear out replace them with new tires and rotate them to the back?

I can't wait 2-3 years or X0,000 miles to see how they wear for my buddy.

I should just quit thinking and do it

[CumminsPower59]

We run those Firestones on just about everything in our fleet at work. They hold up pretty well.

[ellis93]

We run those Firestones on just about everything in our fleet at work. They hold up pretty well.

Ditto....awesome tires,also come with an awesome price as well I've worn out 2 sets of those and my fatherin law has ran them since they were called a steeltex AT. Only problem I've ever experienced with a set was a bad case of tread squirm on the dodge. Made the truck squirrelly under hard turns,with heavy loads. Slapped on an used pair on the rear to figure that one out,once the new ones got a little worn all was well. This second set hasn't done it.

[cmann250]

Ditto....awesome tires,also come with an awesome price as well

How many miles are you getting out of them?

As far as price, Tire Rack shows them at about $170 each. I've not been interested enough to call the local tire stores to get a quote. My dad runs Mastercraft Courser ATs. They wear well until the end and then they start chunking out. A few years ago they were $130-140 each.

I've run the Steeltex's I bought the truck with on the back now. They don't even have a gap between the tread blocks any more, but the siping on the outer blocks still shows. I like them because I thought that they were 30% when I bought the truck and now 30-35k later they are going bald. They're likely 10+ years old and they're starting to show their age.

[DMan1198]

I know I've seen a lot of retreads on the side of the highway from semis, but haven't heard bad things about them on pickups. I know one guy who only got about 20,000 on a set of 19.5's on his dually, but I can't remember which brand they were.

I was looking at a set of irok nd's for The Roo Hunter and they were less then $200 a piece on a 17

[CumminsPower59]

But if you actually look at them, it was the casing that failed, not the tread coming off the casing. The vast majority of the recap failures is from the casing coming apart, from impact or being run low on pressure. I spent quite a few years in the tire and trucking industry, and I have never had a recap come apart, but I've had a virgin pick up something and blow apart...

[cmann250]

Ike's right. The average steering wheel holder does not check pressures. They loose one and don't stop because it'll be 3 hours until it can be changed. Then they loose the other dual from overloading and they finally have to stop. They never check pressures and could care less where they drive because those tires aren't theirs. And they're driving a Freightliner or Volvo most of the time

My biggest concern is if pick-up retreads are as good as semi retreads.

[ellis93]

Caleb,the first set got me 60k,this set has about 40k on them and still truckin. They're good tires.

I can say there was a set of kumho tires in between these and I can honestly say to run like hell from those....they suck bigguns. I've also ran one set of uniroyal liberators and a set of Yokohama geolanders,both of those wore horribly fast.....we're talking less than 35k. Plus the yokos wouldn't stay balanced for schit.

[cmann250]

60k is about all you can hope for. I've heard good things about Michelin LTX (?) tires, but they're over 2 C-notes each in a 235 width and that's far too rich for my blood. Everyone I know is cheap, so "they're good" is all I've heard of them.

I just checked TireRack and stinking BFG ATs are cheaper than Transforces I wonder how BFGs wear

[ellis93]

The paw in law had some Caleb,they did....ok. I think he got like 40 out of his.

Oh man I'm cheap to,so I keep up with how my tires do. But.....I'd rather cry once then buy 2 sets of cheapo tires and end up paying more.

I love Michelin tires....they were all my dad ran when he was alive. Nothing like wearing a truck out an not the tires

Michelin tires don't wear out,they rot away

[dazedandconfused]

You can't beat the BFG AT for a good all around tire. I ran those on the back of my Duramax in the winter and that thing went anywhere. The guys I do side work with run them. His dad switched to the tires that took over for the steeltex and they are good on the road. They suck though with the loaded dump trailer in any kind of wet/muddy situations. They just won't clean themselves out.

[cmann250]

His dad switched to the tires that took over for the steeltex and they are good on the road. They suck though with the loaded dump trailer in any kind of wet/muddy situations. They just won't clean themselves out.

Yea I've experienced that. Who am I kidding though? I have a 2wd. If they'd clean themselves I only would have made it 10 feet further

The only Michelins that are all terrain enough for me are dang near $300 each. I refuse to have half of my truck's value in tires.

[AHineman]

Caleb, if it makes you feel better, I paid more for my flatbed than my truck.

[cmann250]

Well that's crazy. I'd have given a large sum of money to hear you explain that to your wife

I know those beds are expensive and you can't put the dang tailgate up to keep crap from falling out. I don't get it... You and Pete both...