Goodyear Retreads NO GOOD

July of 2018 I had a blow out on my first load after re activating my Authority. The tires came with the truck and I did not know their condition, though I knew they were retreads. So I limped the truck to the nearest Goodyear Commercial Tire dealer which was in Belleville, MI. The tires I needed were 285-75R-24.5. They did not have any new tires so I got a set of Goodyear Retreads. That was all they had in that size and I was under a heavy load. About 1 month later one of the new retreads blew out while on the road, taking out my mud flap hangar in the process. I called the Goodyear road service out in Lansing MI. after a new retread for $200 and a service call of $350 I was back on the road.
When I called the Bellville Goodyear Shop about the blown tire, the counter guy started giving me a bunch of bull about "Oh it may not be the tires fault, It may have not been inflated properly." I was very surprised to hear talk like that from a Goodyear Rep. when the tires were so new. They did not even have 10,000 mile on them.
About a week later I noticed that another tire had a huge bubble sticking out of the sidewall. I took the truck to the Lansing Goodyear Commercial Tire Dealer, and he credited my account for the blown tire and replaced the tire that had the bubble. I was still out the $350 for the road service.
I parked the truck for the winter and started running again July of 2019. In July 2019 another one of the tire treads separated just out of Atlanta, I limped it to the TA and paid for another tire myself, about $450 , since It was Sunday and I couldn't find a goodyear tire shop around. Just last week I found that yet another tire had a 3" X 24" piece of tread missing. The tires had about 38,000 miles on them at this point. I took it to the Lansing MI Goodyear shop and he warrantied the tire and replaced if free of charge.
I have to say that the Goodyear shop in Lansing, MI treated my very well and took care of me, but I feel that Goodyear should have paid for the cost of the road service.
Needless to say, I will never buy another Goodyear Retread. I will definitely never go back to the Belleville, MI Goodyear to buy anything at all. And I will probably never do business with Goodyear again.
I paid more for that set of retreads than I can get a whole set of virgin import tires for.
I have heard of retreads being May Pops, but these are definitely Will and Do Pops

 

By the way that is 4 out of 8 tires that have self destructed. I have never let these tires get below 95 psi.

 

Not really, I know there are some numbers supposed to be branded into them that are supposed to give some info, but I do not know the details