Recap or uesd tires

If I had the choice, used.

I don't like recaps, had really really bad things happen with recaps and you will never find them on my trucks or trailers ever.

 

I always go with used. For a cap to be any good the casing has to be taken care of. You have no idea how many curbs a random recap bought from a tire shop on the road has been over or up against a curb. Even used that could be an issue but I'd rather take the chance on used.

 

Recaps are fine just not from unknown most likely abused casings. Running over just one curb is abuse. You just can't be curbing the virgin casings and you have to stay on top of air pressure maintenence in order to have zero issues with caps.

 

I don't care how 'good' they are, if I'm paying for it, it's not going to be a recap.

 

24's or 22's I would get the recap. anything smaller used.

 

You don't know .... that's the problem

 

You don't. I mean, you can look at the sidewalls and see if they have been scraping curbs. But most times in order for the tread depth to match what's already on your truck you just have to take whatever you can get. You might be lucky if they even have a tire that matches your tread depth. And you might even have to take a cap because of that.