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remoulds - opinions please!

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nzrover:
IMO remoulds are fine for off road (as other have mentioned it's not a total financial disaster if you spike one).  Our roads here have an inferior surface to the UK and remoulds just don't seem to last on road - any money saving is negated by their very reduced lifespan.

When I use remoulds I make sure the whole set are remoulded onto identical casings - otherwise problems with differing circumfernces/contact patches seem to result.

TULL:
have got machos on my 90 , cant go fast enough to worry , wouldnt have them on my main car though.

laser_jock99:
I ran a set of Bronco 4X4 Mud Terrain remoulds (actually made by Technic Tyres http://www.technictyre.co.uk/ ) and to be honest I think they were fine for off-roading but wore just too quickly on-road.

One tyre on the set also wore about three times as fast as the others- no matter which corner I put it on! So after less than 20,000Km I was left with one bald tyre and three with 10mm of tread (starting from 25mm depth....). So draw your own conclusions on the process quality control from that!

The replacement tyres I put on were General Grabber MT's and seem to have barely worn in 10,000Km. The Yokohama Geolander AT's I had before that for 20,000Km are still very good.

I tried re-moulds but won't buy them again. My advice would be to give one of the main 4x4 tyre distrubuters (Southam Tyres http://www.4x4-tyres.co.uk/ 01926 813510 ) a ring and see if  they'll do you a deal on a set of 5 BFG's or Grabbers.

discodaz:
I've got 235/75/16 colways on my Disco with not one problem, tows the 'van( all over U.K & France) been laning with them & spent easter extracting stuck cars & caravans off a very,very wet field(swamp!)
Now if you want to see scary, you should see some of the returns I've seen at a local tyre wholesalers, they weren't remould but expensive new tyres from respected manufacturers!!!
I think the horror stories stem from the days of retreads(just a new tread bonded on an old carcass) rather than a remould where the full carcass is completely covered in new rubber as per a "new" tyre.
So far 2 years on & 16,000 miles on theres no perceptible wear & they are still spot on.
P.S aren't Broncos retreads? :shock:

Merlin:
I recon at least 50% of us use Remoulds & 40% of them are Colways, Either A/T or M/T's.  I cannot fault them in 20 years so far.

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