Originally Posted by spencerdrewh

I don't have any experience with retreads on cars/trucks but I do have experience with them on semis. 11r 22.5s, 10.00 20s those kind of tires. I work for my dad at his tire store/repair shop when I'm not away at school and we have an account with a company that instructs us to only use recaps on their trucks and trailers. I've always heard them called recaps. May just be because of where I'm from or due to the fact that they're a bit different than the ones you're looking at. IMO recaps aren't very good. At least not the ones for semis. I've seen a countless number of them come apart. I'd stay away from them.

Originally Posted by Barryrod

The recaps you are referring to for semis are done completely different than the Treadwrights. The recaps are just new tread glued onto a bald casing. Treadwright "Vulcanizes" new rubber onto the casing in a mold. They have videos you can watch and it is a pretty cool process