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waveydavey:
Tyres really do come down to what you are happy to pay for and what you are happy to drive on.

Remoulds can use a lot more weights to balance but then I have never been charged to balane a tyre by how much effort it took or how many weights it used.

If you are interested most of the time Jumbo Jets (Etc.) operate on Remoulds, they don't get many landings out of a tyre but remould them time and again.

Range Rover Blues:
" things there though, firstly it does matter how much lead is used to balance the tyre, I've seen it halfway round the rim and at that stage it's becoming counter-productive and far more likely to get torn off.

And aircraft tyres are designed from the outset to be remoulded, the carcase gets very little use and the wear is mechanical because the tyre is scrubbed so hard on landing.  Car tyres are designed for one life, no way the manufacturer is going to compromise performance so that another company can make/sell a tyre built around one of their old tyres.
Plus aircaraft are designed to function with numerous blowouts!

karloss:
The other thing to remember of course, Colway's are a good quality remould, I've used them for years on everything from my 90 to race spec road cars. They are a little softer than most of your quality new tyres and so don't last as long. But the point is this, better a *quality* remoulded tyre than a shoddy new one. Some of the tyres offered by the "chains" quite frankly wont be used to replace my remoulds. End of the day it's mostly down to personal preference. If cost is an issue but you really dont want remoulds, buy second hand. Then of course you run the risk of buying something someone else has curbed and damaged!! :wink:

Matt_H:
As people have said, it depends which pub expert you talk to at the time.. AFAIK of all the people who have ha dhigh speed blow outs, none have been due to remoulds.  However I'm hardly a cross section of the community.

I use remould grizzly claws. They don't last long on road, but for such an agressive tyreit's hardly surprising.  I got them for trade price so couldn't refuse! Next time I'll be getting gooyear wranglers after a recomendaton from neil (ok 50k miles on one set of tyres sells it to me!)

I would have no hesitation to run remoulds on the landy, but.... the kit car I wouldn't run remoulds except for a track day (purely becuase I know one set of tyres -goodyear eagle f1- and know how much side ways driving I can get away with).. Well if it's good enough for F1 cars (yes they run remoulds!)

Matthew

muddyweb:
Just to re-iterate my earlier point....  speed and load ratings are they key factors here... they MUST match your vehicle.

Formula 1 cars and Aircraft do NOT use the same type of remoulds that we are talking about here....   as has been mentioned, they are started from totally different carcasses.

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