Too bad they don't make a large size tire:

http://www.greendiamondtire.com/index.html

Looks like it could be a great tire. Maybe we would have better luck getting a smaller company like this to come out with a larger skinnier E-rated tire than Toyo?

 

Sounds like they are good in snow!

 

Aren't all the Green Diamond tires re-treads?

Theres a company south of me in Edgemont,SD that makes and sells "green diamond" tires and they are retreads.

Just checking.

Have a good one.

 

states in the ad that they are remolds meaning retreads

 

I don't know much about them, just someone mentioned them to me who is selling them locally. From the development page on the website it sounds like they may make use of "donor" casings so I guess that sounds like retreads. Their process is an Icelandic invention where they are sold apparently to some success. It looks like they would be good for ice.

 

USe the re-tread tires once on my old for and never had a problem backed them up with a 2 year warrenty on defect. Haven't used the ones with the material in them but the quality over all was decent for the price.

 

People here think re-treads mean junk... I wonder how many of them realize that all of your big rigs use re-treads for millions of miles, and they're safety record is stellar, almost as good as new tires. In fact, if you include defective tires, and recalled tires, re-treads are safer than new tires. If the sidewall is good for a new tire, it can be recapped, and that means the working part of the tire has been tested already, whereas a new tire is anyones guess as to how well the sidewall will hold up.

Also, with a radial tire, your tread is a separate rubber than the carcass, so its not too different from a re-tread. I wouldn't have any problem running these tires on any of my trucks, or the shop trucks, especially since they have such a good track record. Now if they made them in a size suitable for my truck they'd be on mine already.

 

Try these guys.

http://treadwright.com/

I have a set of mud tires on my farm truck and they are very capable and took very little weight to static balance. They have large tires but don't recommend using them for high speed. 35's and up I believe. They also have a wide selection of Green Diamond tires.

 

Personally I wouldn't use retreads. Can't image the damage from the tire seperating, which does happen, albeight, not very often. I wonder how I never heard of these tires in Alaska? Alot of scandanavian engineered tires (Hakkapelitas, etc) available in Alaska, but they were all studded snow tires. After running a few sets of studs, I wouldn't got with anything else on ice, esp on the Glenn Hwy!! JMO

 

These tires (Green Diamond) are available in both Anchorage and Fairbanks (AK)...they don't (yet) make a tire in my size...but if enough of us ask - it may happen. I run custom siped and studded on my rigs (just for my driveway - HA!), but from all I've talked to...I would defintely consider these...if they made 'em a tad larger.

 

The shop I work for is also Nationalease and we see a lot of recap failures. Most within 10k miles of recapped. We save all our new casings and we will retread them 1x and that is it. Even then we expect a 5% failure rate and this is even with Michelin retreads, which in the big truck industry is the best. Many companies will retread casings until they fail and can't be retreaded again. I personally hate the things and the highways covered with gators is proof of their failures. If retreads were safer, then why do all the gas tankers in our fleet (21 total) insurance company require virgin tires?

Now I do know with leasing that customers do not check tire air pressure, and we also know we will have greatly reduced tire life due to this. You also generalized all recaps, and there are some very shady back woods retreaders that do not care about quality control. From my personal experience, not some brochure from Bandag, I come to my conclusion.

 

Every truck I ever drove only used new tires on the steer axle. I've seen to many times first hand what a tire can do when the sidewall gives out with a load on it. I would never trust a retread on the steer axle of an 80,000 lbs plus semi truck and I will not trust one on my small 3/4 ton truck.

JMHO

 

You can't put a retread on the steer axle...and its not the sidewall that fails on a retread, its the cap... A sidewall has just as high a chance of giving out on a new tire as a retread, vulcanizing the cap to the old rubber has no ill effect on the sidewall at all.

 

Well maybe things have changed from when I last drove OTR but I've blown out several sidewalls on recaps and yet left the cap on the tire.

 

Green Diamond tires were running around the import scene several years ago for use as a winter ice tire. Never heard a bad report on them.