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Quote: Originally posted by cbreddie on 04/8/2011
We used remould tyres on our 4x4. they lasted well, had more grip, and were very cheap (about £55 each).
There are all sorts of scary stories about them exploding on the motorway, these are all myths. We did around 100,000miles on remoulds in our last three cars and 4x4s and never had a problem.
loads of grip because they are a slightly softer compound, means they wear out a little bit quicker but then they are usually less than half the price of a new radial tyre.
Remoulds are made of a very soft rubber, deliberately so that they do not last long as the tyre carcasss has already had it's life. Only good quality tyures are considered for remoulding, so the carcass should be up to the job. Having said that, I have seen remoulds where the tread has started to separate from the carcass. I personally would prefer to use a budget tyre over a remould as the savings are insubstantial between the two but a budget brand should last twice as long.
Before anyone derates the construction of a budget tyre, I should poknt out that I have seen the construction of more "big brand" tyres fail than I have of budgets, with Firestone (part of Bridgestone) being one of the worst.
On a slight tangent, a more expensive tyre is not necessarily going to last any longer than a budget. The compounds used are different and so a soft compound will yield more grip but will wear quicker. Michellin for example produce an extremely grippy tyre, but it is not going to last as long as many others. It is a similar situation with brake pads. A hard pad will offer a far inferior braking effort than a soft pad. The harder pad will also wear the disc quicker which then starts to compound as the brake heats up, the pad hardens and picks up particles of the disc until eventually, the brakes have very little efficiency but do make a lot of screeching.
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Topic: Honda CRV tyres
