Tyre rethreading

[Wilb]

Is it legal? I heard it can only be done one time. I know of some shops doing it and seems quite cheap also.

[Usbobby]

who in spore would do retreading??

 

tyre so cheap now, retreading cost almost the same...somemore every tyre can only do retreading once if i am not wrong

[Yeobh]

No it is not illegal ,in fact many advance countries are encouraging the tyre industires and users not to throw the casings ( used tyres) but to reuse or recyle so that there will be less wastes polluting our enviroment.

You will be surprice that aeroplane tyres are retreaded few times before been discarded or use as damper at the seaports etc etc.

In Germany 50% of tyres sold in the marekplace must be of retreaded tyres.

Retreading of tyres in Singapore is mainly confined to buses, trucks and contruction equipnment tyres. Taxi used to use retread tyres but currently they are not.

Most of the complaint on poorly retreaded tyres are due to use of low tech retreading equipments,& lack of retreading knowlege.

Hopfully car owners and the general public will in time to come have a better understanding of retreated tyres and the impact on our enviroment

 

PS do not write off this industry as a sunset industry ,on the contrary this industry use alot of high tech equipment to do tyre casing selections, inspection, repair, buffing application of rubber compound , curing process etc etc.

[Tyreboy]

you dun really find rethreading of passenger cars tyres anymore unless some dishonest tyre shops use that as new tyres..but generally rethread is meant for forklift tyres where they are solid tyres....i think...

[Robertoon]

i think bro means 'regrooving' of the thread....

[Ccssgm]

I think Only.....Lorry Tyre Do Rethreading.....Because the Tyre Is Costly....

[Yeobh]

Not here , go to Europe, China, India, Indonesia US etc etc you shall find them

Edited March 22, 2007 by Yeobh

[Yeobh]

Retreading is remanufacturing used tyre casings and the product behave and looks like new. Regroving is cutting the treads to get extra depth. Normally carried out on commercial and contruction tyres where there is extra rubber to allow regroving.

[Explorerii]

I ever saw one tyre shop worker at Lavender St doing regrooving of old tyres .I think they sell the tyres second hand after the rework . Was wondering whether it is safe to use them cos the casing dont know will be too thin and burst whlie driving .

[Octopus]

Is it legal? I heard it can only be done one time. I know of some shops doing it and seems quite cheap also.

 

Many years ago, my dad re-threaded tyre the layer peeled off while driving. Since that incident he only go for new tyre without the re-work.....

I think there is always a risk using such tyres, whether is the workmanship good, whether is the tyre side wall already too old to be re-use, etc.

[Toyo]

no wonder i can see peeled off layer of tyre on the road

[Tyreboy]

we dun talk about lorry or other industrial heavy vehicles...cos sometime these drivers earn less but had to folk out their own pocket money to pay for the rethread tyres cos their boss dun want to pay them back... toking abt passenger car alone, if one can afford a car, then surely it can afford a decent set of new tyre... what is a few hundreds of dollars worth of tyres compare to tens/hundreds of thousand on a car+COE+Insurance+tax+petrol????

[Roberttan]

you are right those rubber are from tyre,no only form re thread tyre, some are from cheap quality tyres ,also rubber separation due to under or over inflation pressure(poor maintainance)

please don't save $ on rubber , only 4 x contact patch on the road

saving a $ today could cost you more $ in future

just MHO