TreadWright Tires
Rock Crawling
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Treadwright uses quality carcasses like Michelin, bfg, Goodyear, and toyo. They simply add more rubber to em. So all this talk of companies skipping steps and making a poor quality product just doesn't apply. It more so comes down to making sure your air pressures suit your load or you'll overheat the sidewall and cause a blowout
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It's a gamble. I don't have anything against Treadwright specifically, I was speaking of tires and raising the awareness of tire safety in general. Their Amazon feedback is good, but I've been to two tire re-capping facilities and in general where the actual product is made on the shop floor is among the worst places to work in terms of noise, VOC, airborne particles, repetitive tasks ...generally employing low wage, often immigrant workers and the actual final look of the product was in no way reflective of the manufacturing conditions of the plants I've been to. But they weren't Treadwright plants, and maybe Treadwright actually has a decent quality control process in place and an atmosphere that fosters a reasonable amount of worker satisfaction and workers who truely 'care' to produce a quality product ....rather than a high quota they need to meet or get their pay docked. Mfgr plants do vary and I've seen all ends of the spectrum with the industrial engineering/construction work I did for many years. I've been to some plastic plants, for example, which were horrible like something out of an early 20th century forging furnace, with abismal safety conditions, and other plastics plants that were well lit, clean, where the company invested heavily in workers, safety, good environmental conditions and had almost no worker turnover. You can almost tell as soon as you walk in the door of a plant how they are manage and it's reflective of the conditions, safety, product, and usually the profits.
One of the worst plants in terms of cleanliness I ever went to was a Doritos plant!! All the money Pepsi has you'd think they would invest in better conditions. We all stopped eating Doritos for a while ...but across town was another chip plant that was very clean and well laid out. It all comes down to management. Eventually a new guy with different ideas took over and he was able to pry some money to 'start' (slowly) making improvements and I now eat Doritos. We'd all like to believe that a company would do what most people consider to be the 'right' thing and invest in the products and workers ..safety and all that. Not so. Going back to that whole Ford/Explorer/Firestone issue, the engineers noted very early on in the design/testing phase that the vehicle was dangerously prone to losing control during emergency maneuvers, and presented Ford higher-ups with solutions, which were somewhat expensive. This at the time after the Bronco II was being investigated by NITSA for rash roll-overs and they were struck by numerous lawsuits. At the time, Ford had struck a gold mine in the SUV business and around 2000 was sitting on $24 Billion of cash on hand. There were less than 100 companies in the world that had more cash on hand than Ford ....yet they intentionally chose to pull cost out of their product at the cost of known safety issues. Ultimately it would have been far cheaper to have implemented the design changes up front and a lot of people would still be with their families and kids would have moms and dads who now don't. Some companies improve products proactively, some don't. Never expect that any company would do it voluntarily, I've seen first-hand many times. That's what was so riveting about that book ...it is really gets at business ethics and doing the 'right' thing. In my work, I was constantly bombarded with engineering and installation challenges and problems. I am proud to say me and my team never skimped on safety and always took the high road, even if it costs us significant dollars to do it the 'right' way. That was just how we did things, no exceptions.
Anyway, w/o knowing the plant, management practices and mfgr process intimately, it's hard to say. It all comes down to the guy doing the work at the moment your tires are made .....the quality control process and so on, so who knows? That's what ISO programs are supposed to help ensure ('Help' is the key word). Quality 10 ply tire carcasses are probably a lot less likely to gernade than light-duty new tires. For $30 more per tire, Summit racing has new Micky Thompsons: Mickey Thompson Baja STZ Radial Tires 50621 - Free Shipping on Orders Over $99 at Summit Racing
They're probably made by, [gulp] Cooper, who knows?? Might be worse than Treadwrights on Michelin carcasses...
Let us know what you get and give us a report down the road so we can all be a little wiser. Good luck.
One of the worst plants in terms of cleanliness I ever went to was a Doritos plant!! All the money Pepsi has you'd think they would invest in better conditions. We all stopped eating Doritos for a while ...but across town was another chip plant that was very clean and well laid out. It all comes down to management. Eventually a new guy with different ideas took over and he was able to pry some money to 'start' (slowly) making improvements and I now eat Doritos. We'd all like to believe that a company would do what most people consider to be the 'right' thing and invest in the products and workers ..safety and all that. Not so. Going back to that whole Ford/Explorer/Firestone issue, the engineers noted very early on in the design/testing phase that the vehicle was dangerously prone to losing control during emergency maneuvers, and presented Ford higher-ups with solutions, which were somewhat expensive. This at the time after the Bronco II was being investigated by NITSA for rash roll-overs and they were struck by numerous lawsuits. At the time, Ford had struck a gold mine in the SUV business and around 2000 was sitting on $24 Billion of cash on hand. There were less than 100 companies in the world that had more cash on hand than Ford ....yet they intentionally chose to pull cost out of their product at the cost of known safety issues. Ultimately it would have been far cheaper to have implemented the design changes up front and a lot of people would still be with their families and kids would have moms and dads who now don't. Some companies improve products proactively, some don't. Never expect that any company would do it voluntarily, I've seen first-hand many times. That's what was so riveting about that book ...it is really gets at business ethics and doing the 'right' thing. In my work, I was constantly bombarded with engineering and installation challenges and problems. I am proud to say me and my team never skimped on safety and always took the high road, even if it costs us significant dollars to do it the 'right' way. That was just how we did things, no exceptions.
Anyway, w/o knowing the plant, management practices and mfgr process intimately, it's hard to say. It all comes down to the guy doing the work at the moment your tires are made .....the quality control process and so on, so who knows? That's what ISO programs are supposed to help ensure ('Help' is the key word). Quality 10 ply tire carcasses are probably a lot less likely to gernade than light-duty new tires. For $30 more per tire, Summit racing has new Micky Thompsons: Mickey Thompson Baja STZ Radial Tires 50621 - Free Shipping on Orders Over $99 at Summit Racing
They're probably made by, [gulp] Cooper, who knows?? Might be worse than Treadwrights on Michelin carcasses...
Let us know what you get and give us a report down the road so we can all be a little wiser. Good luck.
Last edited by Mark G; Feb 4, 2016 at 06:56 PM.
I have driven 10's of thousands of miles on Treadwrights at speeds up to 75 mph, no failures, no issues no blow outs and no death. The tires are a quality retread done to standard.
Obviously quality brand names have issues as I'm pretty sure Firestone's are not cheap.
To base the quality of the product in the manner suggested by a few is flawed.
Obviously quality brand names have issues as I'm pretty sure Firestone's are not cheap.
To base the quality of the product in the manner suggested by a few is flawed.
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Three Wheeling
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My intent wasn't to call into question the question of Treadwright tires specifically as everything I've researched so far about them specifically has been positive. They seem like a quality company that stands behind their product. I was only trying to get a feel for their fit and sizing questions.
I do appreciate everyone's contributions though...
Especially this!
I do appreciate everyone's contributions though...
Especially this!
Rock Crawling
Joined: Mar 2015
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From: Madison, wi
Got my 245/75r16 treadwright guard dogs delivered yesterday. Hopefully I'll have time at work to get mounted up tomorrow. I know they're a tad more aggressive than what you're going for but I'll let ya know how they fit
