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The top two types of damage for debris fragments were: road hazard (39%) and excessive heat (30%).
One thing this study demonstrates is that excessive heat (30%) accounts for a large percentage of tire failures. Excessive heat is generated when tires are not kept properly inflated
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This goes back to my point about
safety being the real issue and not retreads. Point being made here as well:
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At this time, there is no federal rule on safe minimum air pressures, but the tire industry itself says that running at less than 80% of recommended pressure is dangerous.
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Currently their is no regulation of tire pressure in commercial trucking vehicles. So assuming that maybe 50% of truckers check all the pressure of all their tires at regular intervals. That still leaves 50% whom could be driving with under inflated retreads. Being said, let's make the same assumption that maybe 50% of regular people check their tire pressure at regular intervals.
Would you assume that you would see an equal amount of blow outs? I only ask this because the percentages quoted here:
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You missed a BIG fact:
* Approximately 68% of tire fragments were from retread tires and 18% were from original tread tires. The remaining 14% could not be determined.
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are quoted from a blog. Not that I am disregarding the statistic, I would just like a cited source (not Wikipedia). It makes me think of an old New Yorker cartoon
