Ordered a pair of Kuhmos for my NB yesterday from my local independent tyre fitter. I had noticed cracks on the sidewall of a front tyre and wanted to replace with a matching pair. Went to have them fitted this afternoon and asked the fitter to advise me on which other tyre to replace. He spotted one of the rears was a remould and on removal found a large chunk of tread flapping around,exposing the wires underneath. Good job I decided to change a pair of tyres instead of just the one. And to think I was out on a club run last Sunday. The remould was on the car when I bought it in February
Remould? How ever old is that tyre. I thought they went out of circulation decades ago. I remember having a similar problem in the 70s on a Toyota Corolla estate. Surely you can’t still buy these death traps?
WHEN I was doing stage rallies we had a contract with COLWAY Tyres. They were great although we only used them for two to four stages. Depending on service intervals.
Colway went to the wall some 5 years ago when their landlord locked them out of the factory for financial reasons. Their quality was abysmal at that point already though.
You can still get competition remoulds, MaxSport and what is likely to become the new big thing in sprinting, Extreme Performance, are both remoulds.
For road tyres in 15" I really don’t see the point or logic. The things are so cheap the saving negligible if at all. It’s a totally different thing on trucks and the like where a single tyre is costing £500 and upwards and lots required that savings can be substantial.
As Nick D said, these days, why bother with a remould on a road car - most modern tyres are good and inexpensive for what they do.
But don’t get me going on the price of 16" “classic” tyres… my other car uses them - I need to take a deep breath to put a set of decent new tyres on that! They are three or four times the price of those for the MX-5; unfortunately not many companies make “narrow” 16" radials with a suitable tread; most of the very few available are crossplies. I did once get a manufacturer interested in manufacturing some radials at a reasonable cost. All went well until he casually mentioned that his minimum order was 1,000 tyres and I would have to buy the lot (for a mere £45,000). That would have kept our small club going for decades.
Chances are that each of the HGVs tailgating everything in the traffic jam have several remoulds on.
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Surely by the amount of stripped lorry treads you see on the side of , or in the middle ofthe carriageway, reinforces my view that the principle of a remould makes them a liability. New tyres are cheap these days, if you have to go for a budget brand. You would have to be mad to pick a remould or tighter than a ducks a***
It is totally permissible to regroove tyres that are designed to be regrooved. They will state so on the sidewall. However they are prohibited on road cars, goods vehicles under a certain weight and some other restrictions including trailer tyres. No one would make a car tyre with sufficient rubber on them to be regrooved and it would be uneconomic.
Do not underestimate the cost of commercial vehicle tyres, it is nothing to do with being tight, more to do with being in business or out of it. A £200 saving per tyre on a trailer that needs 6 tyres soon adds up.if you were a medium size haulier with 10 tractor units, trailers and rigid trucks you could be looking as as much as £25k saving on tyres. Understand that these are working machines.