Driving out to Death Valley with a carload of friends in '72 we heard a flapping. One guy recognized it as retread failure: the tread had separated and was flapping every time the wheel turned. Does anyone retread tires anymore? It would hardly seem worth the effort.

I was driving on Rt 95 one day, in the left land, and saw what appeared to be a tire rolling down the highway next to a car in the far right lane. Both moved into the breakdown lane. Later I realized what I saw was the tread that had totally separated from the tire in one piece and was rolling down …

The younger members of the forum may not recall this factoid, but–up through at least the '70s–Greyhound used to use “re-grooved” tires on their buses. They took bald tires and had a mechanic use some kind of tool to inscribe new extremely shallow “grooves” in these dangerous tires in order to ge…

I’ve never heard of a retreaded radial ply tire. Perhaps Capriracer could post in on this one.

I did a quick Google Search. I only found truck and RV tires, no car tires as retreads. I haven’t seen them advertised since the 70’s.

J.C. Whitney used to sell a regrooving tool. Unfortunately, regrooving tires was a widespread practice among among used car dealers. I think it was in 1963 that a Greyhound bus skidded on wet pavement and overturned with fatalities. The rear tires were regrooved in an X pattern. A recap is differ…

I remember seeing that tool in the JC catalog. $39 or something like that. Back in the 60’s I would buy the Firestone retreads that were on sale four for $99 or two snow tires for $49. It was pretty common to use retread snow tires. I suspect the labor cost now and legal issues makes it uneconom…

Bandag was one of the bigger ones, and they’re still around. I saw how they did truck recaps on “How It’s Made”. Pretty interesting. Seemed to me, if done right, They’d be good candidates for local delivery trucks and short runs. I’m not sure if I drive long distance, that I’d use them.

Maybe recaps are still available https://www.tirerecappers.com/

Here’s a link to some aircraft retreaded tires. http://www.bing.com/search?q=aircraft+recap+tires&form=PRHPCS&pc=EUPP_U146&mkt=en-us&refig=00388dea599b4a9ebb1a74e51838c8f8&qs=SC&pq=aircraft+recapped+&sc=3-18&sp=1&cvid=00388dea599b4a9ebb1a74e51838c8f8

Does anyone make retreads anymore?

General Discussion

SteveCBT April 19, 2016, 2:18am 2

I had the same thing happen to me many years ago. I did not have much money then and retreads were cheap and kept me on the road.

I have not seen retreads for passenger cars in a long time. Big trucks still use retreads.

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Does anyone make retreads anymore?

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