Less than one percent include many different areas. Many of these were
from
specific segments of the market. Example waste trucks operate in a very
severe enviornement it is not uncommon to repair one of these tires 30 -
50
times in its life span. This tire will have much higher chance of
failure
than an over the road rig. Customers with good maintenace might not have
a
failure due to retread problems in a year. One example a customer of
ours
with 500 truck and 650 trailers. Thats 10,200 tires running 150,000
miles
per year. They have 3 or 4 adjustments in a year.
National Contract with some of the Largest Fleets in the USA with
thousands
of vechicles require New Tire Manufacturers and Retread Manufacturers to
guarantee adjustment rates of less than 3 - 4%
Did you know that New Tires have adjustment rates of between 2 to 4 %
for
the major brands and much worse for some of the lower teir brands?
A 8 - 9/10ths adjustment rate is an extremelly good figure. I understand
your thoughts, tires just do not seem to fail these days. It is true
they
are very reliable products this tends to make people take them for
granted.
Paul Schelling & Kate Hughes wrote:
> Robert M. Pickrell Jr. wrote:
> >
> > ...Our retread shop had less than a 1% failure rate...
>
> I hope it was a LOT less than 1%. Closer to 1 would be pretty darn
> awful for such a safety-critical product.
>
> I imagine that it is certainly POSSIBLE for a retread to be a perfectly
> good and much more economical and ecologically conscious tire for street
> and autocross use. When a retread maker shows me enough evidence that
> its product is of sufficient quality, I will probably go for it.
>
> - Paul
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