Retread tires...Are they safe?

Have you ever wondered if those tires on the highway are from retread tires or from new tires? We have and it made us curious to check out what people are saying about the safety of retread tires. Retreads have not been prevalent in the passenger vehicle market, but that is primarily because the price of new tires has ahs shown that there is no significant savings buying retreads.

According to the Tire Retread & Repair Information Bureau, "Retreads do not come apart any more easily than new tires." Executive Director David Stevens says, “It’s always been a public perception problem." It is obvious the industry needs to do a better job of educating the public on retreads.

Stevens also thinks that the industry needs to do a better job of informing and educating the public. Research commissioned by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration found that the proportion of tire debris from retreads compared with new tires “is similar to the estimated proportion of retread and [new] tires in service. There was no evidence to suggest that the proportion of tire fragments/shreds from retread tires was overrepresented in the debris items collected.” “The evaluation of available crash data shows that vehicle crashes related to truck-tire failure and truck-tire debris are very rare events that account for less than one percent” of traffic accidents.