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Originally Posted by Robw#70
The trouble with them is theyre very inconsistant in both compound and carcass.
If you get a good one theyre ok, but bad ones can be really bad!!
I have fitted new ones for people and theyre egg shaped and if your lucky to get a round one then they take 60+ grams to balance them.
because there is not a set carcass used you never know what the tyre is based on and they are always very heavy (like twice the weight of a 'proper' tyre!)
But the coloured ones are cool for burnouts
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To be fair it used to be hard to find a round Dunlop!!
As for carcass, I hear what you say about that they might have piles of different donor tyres and you don't know from which yours originated, but presuming ALL come from 'proper' tyres at some point (to become a remould it must have been a 'proper' tyre at some point) ... you would be implying that some 'proper' carcases are not up to the job??
Or just that some take remolding better than others?
I think a lot of it is down to usage too, if you rip up and down the motorway all day every day the poor tyre is under more stress than a town commute ...