philgor:
just one other thing, harry has only just put the unit on the road, so money is quite possabley tight for the first few week’s, i can’t picture him picture him picking up the truck, seeing it has remoulds/retread’s etc, and sending it in to the garage for tyres’ that may have life left in them although they are remould’s, to have x amount of new tyre’s fitted… would you do that?
as we now know with the tyre wing lights and call out charge it’s already cost more than swopping would have cost in the first place!
I know it’s a case of being wise after the event
i dont know anyone that runs a few trucks that would sell a second hand truck with 1st class tyres fitted, as a matter of course the best tyres get taken off and on go some that have been standing in the garage for a while, these will be the ones that may have cuts to the cords or bulges on the sidewalls, they are more than likely to have a reasonable amount of tread left on and the faults wont show up at a quick glance!!
Another slight thread hijack but in relation to replacing tyres on a newly aquired truck i did on ours 2 new front steers and full set on the drive before it went ot work due to it having recuts on the drive and well worn on the steer maybe a tad over the top in the beginning but after seeing the bad luck harry has had perhaps worthwhile
simon
philgor:
just one other thing, harry has only just put the unit on the road, so money is quite possabley tight for the first few week’s, i can’t picture him picture him picking up the truck, seeing it has remoulds/retread’s etc, and sending it in to the garage for tyres’ that may have life left in them although they are remould’s, to have x amount of new tyre’s fitted… would you do that?
as we now know with the tyre wing lights and call out charge it’s already cost more than swopping would have cost in the first place!
I know it’s a case of being wise after the event
i dont know anyone that runs a few trucks that would sell a second hand truck with 1st class tyres fitted, as a matter of course the best tyres get taken off and on go some that have been standing in the garage for a while, these will be the ones that may have cuts to the cords or bulges on the sidewalls, they are more than likely to have a reasonable amount of tread left on and the faults wont show up at a quick glance!!
I’ve never changed tyres before selling on a unit might do the odd one on a trailer if it had had a new one on not long ago. At the end of the day changing four drives is a lot of work, unless they’re already in the rims. and I’m not sure I’d have changed them on a new acquisition if the tread depth was ok and any cuts legal.
I can’t remember if Harry just had retread come off the casing or a blowout. If it was a blowout it could just have easily been a slow that caused it to heat up and unrelated to tyre quality.
I run Michelin remixes on drives (wouldn’t ever put a retread on a steering axle). New Taurus (Hungarian budget Michelin) on midlifts and new Continentals on front steers. All typically Bandvulc or other retread supersingles on trailers. I have just copied what most big fleets I’ve come across seem to do.
philgor:
just one other thing, harry has only just put the unit on the road, so money is quite possabley tight for the first few week’s, i can’t picture him picture him picking up the truck, seeing it has remoulds/retread’s etc, and sending it in to the garage for tyres’ that have life left in them although they are remould’s, to have x amount of new tyre’s fitted… would you do that?
Paying out good money for tyres is called speculating to accumulate
Anyone running around on remoulds is spending a tenner trying to save a fiver
If 500quid for a tyre after spending ten’s of thousands on a lorry scares you then you have a weird way of working things out
After your right boot, tyres have the biggest impact on your biggest cost (fuel) the better tyre you buy, the more money you save
If you get an extra half mile to the gallon (which you will, guaranteed) from decent tyres, that will put an extra ten grand a year in your pocket, if you spend 200quid on a cheap tyre rather than 500 quid, you’ll only save 2400 quid on a 6x2 tractor unit, so you’re going to ■■■■ 7600 quid out of your exhaust pipe
If poor cashflow doesn’t allow you to spend the money up front, then you’re working for peanuts and you shouldn’t be running a lorry in the first place
Any tipper my dad bought would have michelins Or bridgestones put on the steers before it went out to work if it come with remoulds or old ■■■■■■■■ and the drives would be changed in short order same makes or hankooks as they do a good off road tyre.
He obviously lost the odd good tyre on bad tips but reckoned over 3 years he was in front as they lasted longer and he would cut them etc and never realy had blowouts on the road it was more the odd bit of steel that screwed tyres so on a road motor it’s a no brainier.
Denis F:
Ok , veering off topic to talk about tyres is one thing, bicycles are a completely different thing !
Topic split .
Tell that to The Crossrail people when You have to sit through 8 hours of cycling on there induction, which many of us on here have had to, 8 hours to DCPC too…
See you down there John, we can talk mountain bike tyre pressures freely without having to worry about offending the sensitivities of some lorry driver, cos I’d really hate to think I’d ever done that!!!
Do we need to wear PPE in “the bar”? I’m sure we’ll be better off if we do, after all, “where there’s blame,”
9t mini piling rigs dropped from 300ft do not hurt at all as long as a chap is in his tango kit & hard hat they just bounce off him, well The HSE want You to believe it but I dont well not fully.
A sad day when George Technique sold out, a very sad day for Coops & The Natwest
fly sheet:
9t mini piling rigs dropped from 300ft do not hurt at all as long as a chap is in his tango kit & hard hat they just bounce off him, well The HSE want You to believe it but I dont well not fully.
C’mon, it’s not like they make you wear it for ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON, no, it’s for our own good!!
fly sheet:
A sad day when George Technique sold out, a very sad day for Coops & The Natwest
He was a good old boy George, I used to have an uncle George, he was a Cheff & came from Estavayer-le-Lac in Switzerland. Did I mention that I did some ‘Swiss’ work? (Best watch out going off subject like this, the padlock Gestapo might be reading!!)
