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Can i return my lease car with remould tyres on. The tyres are almost at 1.6mm on the edges and may be border line by the time the car is returned to the lease company. Does anybody have any experience/knowledge of this scenario?? thx in advance
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Do you have a guide book from them? I would imagine they wouldn't be at all happy and might charge you, in which case you'll have bought 2 sets of tyres and that would be a false economy.
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In my experience lease co. policy is usually if they are paying black and round will do, if someone else is paying then OE all the way.
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What sort of lease is this? PCP type?
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I wouldn't drive 200yds in a car with remoulds, or 1.6mm of tread for that matter, is your (or your family or the poor devil you hit) life worth the the £50 you'll save?
I post this on a day when we've had torrential rain.
I guess it's your conscience
Edited by idle_chatterer on 07/10/2009 at 23:06
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I cant imagine any contemporary car would be legal on remoulds on the basis of speed rating alone.
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Hmm. Some time ago now I saw an interview with the bloke who ran the largest remanufactured tyre operation in the UK at the time.
Rather interesting was the fact that the majority of the trade was export and most of that was to Germany. Specifically very high-spec remanufactured tyres for Porsches, top-end Beemers, Mercs and such. All rated in the "floor it up the autobahn" and above categories.
There's an enormous difference between the old skool remoulds (as still used on truck tyres) where a new tread layer is bonded to the existing carcass and the modern remanufacturing process which strips the rubber from the carcass and rebuilds the whole tyre. They are quite literally as good as new and the warranty with is the equal of any offered by an OEM tyre firm.
The only reason they're not common in less exotic sizes as that a new East European or Korean tyre is about the same price....
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"I wouldn't drive 200yds in a car with remoulds"
Isn't it true that the aeroplane that takes you and a hundred or so others on yours holidays and back has remould tyres ?
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Plus the HGV's which run up and down the countries motorways every day.
Edited by gmac on 08/10/2009 at 09:58
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Op does not state car therefore no guesses at the cost of 2 tyres.
I'd rather see a car with 2 x new tyres of any make than running 2 x remoulds @ under 1.6mm.
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WHICH report on an Audi Q7 driver who handed his lease Q7 back with the wrong speed rating tyres (though a high enough rating for the car) and the lease company billed him for new tyres.
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Probably cheaper to fit a pair of "used" tyres just before it goes back.
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"Plus the HGV's which run up and down the countries motorways every day"
And leave strips of their tyres all over the hard shoulder.
Edited by Fullchat on 09/10/2009 at 01:10
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"I wouldn't drive 200yds in a car with remoulds" Isn't it true that the aeroplane that takes you and a hundred or so others on yours holidays and back has remould tyres ?
Yep - Varies on the spec / size etc, but they can be remoulded up to 5 times.
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Yesterday from my perch plastering a new Porch at the front (obvious) of a house I witnessed a neighbour's hire car being collected by a driver who had been dropped off in one of their vans. He went to great pains to examine the vehicle over and over and over again, to a degree that quite surprised me. He couldn't have missed a trick.
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He went to great pains to examine the vehicle over and over and over again to a degree that quite surprised me. He couldn't have missed a trick.
Which is why you should do the same when picking one up.
I picked up a six month old Fiesta last September at an airport, the car looked like it had been through a hedge backwards. By the time I'd finished going over the car there wasn't an unmarked panel on the check sheet. Made sure they weren't going to put anything on me.
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Don't want to be too pedantic, but aren't truck tyres re-TREADS and not re-MOULDS?
(As are plane, and bus tyres which only have the treads replaced an not the entire tyre structure)
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Retreads and remoulds are the same thing. They are governed by ECE regs and must carry a mark to show they comply. There is no intrinsic reason why a remould should not be as safe as any other tyre and as has already been pointed out most trucks are running on them. I suspect in the drive to go green and recycle more we will see a big increase in their use on private cars
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I have to admit that I still need some convincing that the cost saving represents a reasonable trade-off with my perception that they're less safe and a false economy on passenger cars (admittedly based on media articles over the past 15-20 years).
Does the structure (banding, fabric etc) of passenger car tyres not have a 'design life' and does this really exceed the tread wear in a world where everything is engineered to be 'just good enough' ?
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