Cheap Tires - Are They Still Safe?

Article Written By: Donald Hendrick

Needless to say, some people might wonder if you should even think about cutting back on your own tires. Most people do, of course, but only by trying to find sales or coupons or rebates. They don't go too crazy about it. Actually , i know, because that's mostly the way in which I used to think about it. Itfeels like a security feature, something you don't need to be cheap with. But since I'm a bit of a tightwad, especially as my age increases, I've begun to search into it. Actually, it may well have been the last set of tires that caused it. Over six-hundred dollars for four pieces of rubber on a measly little Kia Rio. Every time I think about the receipt I can't discover how I spent so much!

Now back when the wife and I rode motorcycles we regularly bought tires online. This saved us a little money, plus our club president worked for a garage and could mount them for us somewhere between cheap and free. Unfortunately that is a lot harder to do with car tires. By the time your chosen discount tire place does their mounting and balancing and lifetime replacement warranties you've lost all your savings and then some, plus the shipping costs. Wheels, yes. Tires, no, not so much.

Nevertheless we are now going to need cheap tires like we've never needed them before. We just purchased a monster truck. OK, so it's not *really* a monster truck, nevertheless it seems like it, especially when compared to the Kia! Crewcab, longbed, 4X4, 1-ton pickup. That's just insanely large for us. And it came with really big fat tires too. And what in the world possessed us to buy an extremely large truck? Well, because we needed something large enough to pull a 5th wheel RV trailer. Yeah, more tires. So we will eventually be rolling down the line with eight tires. Maybe you can now see why the whole idea of cheap tires is attractive to me!

And talking about not cheap items, have you priced truck tires before? WOW those are expensive! So I've been doing a bit of reading, researching and investigating. Hey, it's what I do. So far I really like the tires i can found on website. They sell retreads, much like all of the fleet and big-rig trucks use. I could replace my existing tires for $87 each. Impressive! I appreciate the reviews that Petersen's Offroad and 4-wheel Magazine did about them.

And while we're talking about reviews, these tires are secure. American Airlines changes 25,000 tires each year, and the majority of those are retreads. They recap the main gear tires 5-9 times and also the nose-gear tires 3-15 times. Strangely enough, they suffer more wear from taxiing around the runway than on the actual landings! So think about that. Airplanes use retreads. Why wouldn't you use them on your vehicle?

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