Hi everybody
I have purchased recently a stunning Daf 105 and I want to put a full set of top of the range branded tyres around her. She is on 295/80/22.5 and I want 4 drives and 4 steers of all the same make. Can anybody recommend a place that will give me a price for my old tyres in exchange for a new set. I am looking at bridgestones preferably ?
Thanks Gary
Hi Gary, well first of all whereabouts are you? I’d say that wherever you are, an informal chat with an actual tyre fitter might be the way to go with this one, most of them seem to have a little hey diddle diddle going with part-worn tyres. 
Hi Gary you won’t go wrong at all with bridge stones best tyre out there been running em for around 5 years all round on the various units I’ve owned
As for exchanging your old rubber depending on what make n how much trees on em depends how easy your shift em as Harry said most tyre fitters will have some where they ca. Off load em if not good old e bay is an option
My tyre fitter recommends Bridgestones, and I will probably try those next time. having said that, I’ve got Hankooks on one side of my drive axle and Continentals on the other, they’ve done about 200,000km on maximum weight work and they’ve still got 6 mm of tread left so I wouldn’t complain about that.
How long do you plan to keep the truck? What’s wrong with the tyres already on it?
^^^ Likewise, whats wrong with whats on? may make more sense financially to wear the set out that are on first before shelling out for a full set of bridgestones?
Same here can’t see the sense in taking good tyres off.
coiler:
How long do you plan to keep the truck? What’s wrong with the tyres already on it?
He wants a branded tyre and for a daf bridgestone are the best, if its a twin steer lift then get the tracking done twice a year and that should save the tyres on the lift axle going like a 50p piece and giving you steering shake
scotstrucker:
coiler:
How long do you plan to keep the truck? What’s wrong with the tyres already on it?He wants a branded tyre and for a daf bridgestone are the best, if its a twin steer lift then get the tracking done twice a year and that should save the tyres on the lift axle going like a 50p piece and giving you steering shake
why does the tracking need doing twice a year on a daf? Assuming you’re not changing ball joints etc?
Good mileage so far Harry, not recut yet?, my tractor on Goodyear Regionals @160k couple of weeks ago, run either max weight or empty return, drive axle disappointingly down to about 3mm on the inners (i don’t abuse it), all 4 now recut to 7/8mm, both steers wearing on both shoulders, by the beginning of next winter they’ll hopefully be all shot, replacements will be Bridgestones.
Smalley mid lift doing OK, loads of tread left.
Haven’t enjoyed the poor wet grip (wheelspin and side slip) from the drive axle one bit, be interesting to see what, if any, difference the Bridgers make.
Juddian:
Good mileage so far Harry, not recut yet?,
No, I have thought about having them recut but from what I’ve read here it’s probably a false economy.
Juddian:
my tractor on Goodyear Regionals @160k couple of weeks ago, run either max weight or empty return, drive axle disappointingly down to about 3mm on the inners (i don’t abuse it), all 4 now recut to 7/8mm, both steers wearing on both shoulders, by the beginning of next winter they’ll hopefully be all shot, replacements will be Bridgestones.
Again, and this is only what I have read on here so don’t shoot me, I am only the piano player etc , “You only fit a Goodyear if you are having a Bad Year”. 
Harry Monk:
Juddian:
No, I have thought about having them recut but from what I’ve read here it’s probably a false economy.
Depends H, and not trying to persuade you, but our tyre mob are pretty clued up, the tyres are on contract so its in the tyre company’s interest to make the operation as economical as possible, both for long life and casing value.
They recut all drives, plus tag and trailer tyres (trailer recuts usually go on the middle axle, certainly never the rear), mainly Bridgestone which are first choice on the fleet.
I take a bit of interest cos i started out as a tyre repairer (very few companies left),then went onto fitting of all sorts, before i went driving.
Recutting is much more specialised now than it was in my day, they measure the existing tread depths and then add the recut depth, i reckon they added 4mm, also interesting to see which cross cuts they put in and which they missed out, i believe these are approved recut patterns, in my day it was more a case of common sense, no bugger else wanted to replicate a squiggly Pirelli Carriload pattern but i took a stupid pride in doing so… 
In practice only very rarely do our drive recuts chunk out, and only then if the pilot is a regular wheelspinner, apparently the wrong or too many cross cuts help cause chunking, we do sometimes get chunks out of the trailers but couple of places we go there’s quite rough concrete on the turning circle we HAVE to use, and sometimes still loaded depending on the tipping point, this is i’m sure where the damage occurs, obviously some trailers suffer more from this effect cos their regular drovers don’t give a stuff.
Annoys the hell out of me when people abuse the vehicle with unnecessary U turns, especially loaded, would be a whole different game if they were paying.
By the way, the chap doing my cuts (most senior bloke at the depot) mentioned Hankooks whilst he was doing my drives, whilst a quite good tyre not much depth for safe recutting apparently.
coiler:
scotstrucker:
coiler:
How long do you plan to keep the truck? What’s wrong with the tyres already on it?He wants a branded tyre and for a daf bridgestone are the best, if its a twin steer lift then get the tracking done twice a year and that should save the tyres on the lift axle going like a 50p piece and giving you steering shake
why does the tracking need doing twice a year on a daf? Assuming you’re not changing ball joints etc?
Daf twin steers are prone to knackering the edges of steer tyres n found that getting the tracking checked a cpl of times a year helped combat it + it helped with the fuel consumpsion, but we did try 1 daf with a set of part worn drive axle tyres on the 2nd steer and the tyre edges stayed the same. Each time the guy checked the tracking it was out just a fraction but he said the state of the roads dont do the steering any good
Thanks for the responses everybody
I am situated In South Wales
The current tyres on her are
On the front 2 komerans 10mm
Middle axle Michelin 10mm Taurus 13mm
Drive axle Hankook 9mm
Bridgestone remould 9mm
Bandvulc remould 6mm
Encore 6mm
Plus 4 Taurus drives In my shed all on 10mm
The odd tyres do my head In I was wondering if there was a place that will buy part worns in exchange for a brand new set of either Michelins, bridgestones, Hankooks etc a branded tyre but preferably bridgestones as I have ran them in the past and had over 550,000 out of a set of drives and over 250,000 out of a steer
I don’t mind travelling somewhere
Thanks Gary
GID:
Thanks for the responses everybody
I am situated In South WalesThe current tyres on her are
On the front 2 komerans 10mm
Middle axle Michelin 10mm Taurus 13mm
Drive axle Hankook 9mm
Bridgestone remould 9mm
Bandvulc remould 6mm
Encore 6mmPlus 4 Taurus drives In my shed all on 10mm
The odd tyres do my head In I was wondering if there was a place that will buy part worns in exchange for a brand new set of either Michelins, bridgestones, Hankooks etc a branded tyre but preferably bridgestones as I have ran them in the past and had over 550,000 out of a set of drives and over 250,000 out of a steer
I don’t mind travelling somewhereThanks Gary
Speak with your local tyre company n they may buy or put you in touch with someone
Look on EBay & contact sellers of part worns, there’s 2 listings at least when I looked. You won’t get much for your shopping list though!