i personally would not use retreads on my personal truck, but we do use retreads on all of our commercial trucks....not pickup trucks...like C6500's and internationals..and we can only use them on the rear.

 

why on the rear?
plus im not sure if they make monster truck retreads haha

 

I wouldn't risk my safety with a retread. Like mmstar said, commercial trucks use them on the back only and because if they blow one tire they have between 3-7 other tires and wouldn't be as much a safety issue. Personally, I would pay the extra for peace of mind.

 

I know people who have used them, and had no issues. Tread Wright is a reputable company, who stand behind their tires. I have read many stories about how good a product they are and how if there was a problem they took care of it. I have looked online and cant find a failure that resulted in an accident!

Now I don't run them because they DO NOT have 20" tires. So If I were in your shoes, and you were doing 50 miles a day at 60-80 mph and very little off road, I would consider new tires. Only because of high speeds and wet weather capabilities of the terras. If you are 25% off road and the 50 miles a day is low speed in town driving then it wont matter get the retreads!

 

I wouldn't want to use retreads on my personal vehicle either. Reason being they seem (and this is completely unsubstantiated by any facts or numbers) less reliable and more likely to blow out than a new tire. My father in law drove a rig for years and owned his own for a while. He put retreads on his rig because it was cheaper but he ended up blowing out a lot of them under load.

But by the same token, tractor trailers put a LOT of highway miles on tires and use retreads. But like the other guys said, they only use them on the rear tires where you have multiple tires to prevent catastrophe if one blows. One reason they use them is they have so many tires on those semis that buying new tires would be very expensive.

 

Retreads as far as i knew were illegal on any passenger vehicle. Even on trucks the steer tires cannot be retreads.
I wouldn't jeopordize my saftery to save a few hundred if that...??

 

exactly what jonny said...they go all the time...thats why on the highway you see shreads of tire all over the place... and if your running 4 tires....2 in the rear...id hate to see what happens at 75mph when 1 of tires decides to just go out. its a DOT law that they can only be used on the rear, because the front...theres only 2 tires...1 on each side, and theyre used for steering....much more important...so you have to use new tires by law..no retreads....the rears of our trucks are dually, dual axles....so you have 8 tires on the rear...if you loose 1....not really a big deal, because theyre 7 others to make up for it lol

 

Not worth risking my life and more importantly my daughters. Retreads are dangerous.

 

IMO outside of buying retreads for the rear of a dually or tractor trailer would be ridiculous, which is diculous twice!!!