Retread Tires Debate

this is also what i run ^^^^ as per chalk test

 

Airing them down voids the warranty. Though I've seen many that air them down and have never had any problems. I'm at a little over 10k on mine and they still look brand new.

I have the 315/70/17 Guard Dogs w/o Kedge Grip.

 

Mine still look almost brand new... the front ines have a little chunking from being on the rear and one looks like sombidy tried to knife it...

 

yea but when u wheel u have too air down......the kedge grip is a softer compound ... not sure if that matters......
going to wheel them for the 2000th time next weekend.....
love them off road

 

Nice.... Great real world product info. Any pictures or vids from your 30k miles of ownership?

 

ordered a set of guard dogs on the 15th, still havent gotten them, but am getting anxious!

 

Sometimes they ship next day sometimes its a months wait...you never know

 

Are these available in Canada?

 

probably. try they're live chat help

 

thats only 2 weeks ago? if u ordered the guard dogs they on backorder

this^^^

 

yea i ordered the guard dogs in load range D, 285/75/16.

 

Personally, I'd never use retreads on a passenger vehicle. I managed (on weekends) an outlet for a for a trucking company for a number of years and even we stopped using retreads due to the hassles. Never got our money back out of retreads. In fact, costs often went up since we were constantly having to do tire repairs or replacements on the road (instead of at our shops).

If you're really scrapped for bucks, retreads on a large truck are occasionally okay for short periods, but that should include plans to replace the tires with new as soon as possible. But, on passenger vehicles, that practice is probably too costly to be truly feasible - not to mention to hassles of potentially repairing or replacing tires on the road.

However, if you're determined to use retreads anyway, do keep a few things in mind. If you're hauling or towing, make sure the retreads are truly rated for the loads (the original numbers on the sides of the tires are no longer valid once retreaded). Finally, make sure retreads are okay with your insurance company.

 

Did you read any of this thread?

 

Not beyond the first page. Still haven't. This thread was 13 pages long at the time. Doesn't matter anyway since I'm just adding my own experience to whatever mix. Wouldn't have changed regardless of what others said, did, or whatever.

 

I'm very close to buying the some Wardens. I have stock suspension height and after reading a few pages of the thread it seems that some of these tires are bigger than their size suggests. Would it still be safe to run 265/75/16's at stock height? Does anyone here have that setup? Thanks all!

 

Going on 30k miles on treadwright retreads. No issues so far. 1 set of guard dogs that last 20k and 10k on wardens, wardens have 20k left in em

 

They aren't usually that much bigger.

 

It's the dogs that run big. On their website the list the exact height of the tires.

 

Has anyone run the guard dogs as winter tires? I'm really interested in there winter driving performance.

Thanks,
Opie