THE GUIDE TO BUYING USED TIRES



Used Tire News-Usedtires.com-Deerfield Beach, Fl-As with all things automotive and tires safety first. Some in the new tire industry, mainly Goodyear, Bridgestone Firestone, Pirelli and Michelin over recent decades have said and written some nasty things about used tires. The tire makers in a concerted effort attacked U.S. sellers of American Used tires in foreign countries. They lobbied foreign governments where they owned and operated factories banning the importation of Used Tires. The tire makers instead of using facts distort reality to paint used tires as potentially unsafe just because it is used. Their main reason is you do not know the history of the tires life. We say Bullshit, if the tire is well inspected and came off or out of service only because the owner was sold a set of new tires, there is nothing wrong with reselling a good used tire. The EPA states Reuse which when you purchase a safe used tire is reuse is the highest form of tire recycling.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that about ten percent of auto accidents are tire-related. Most of the time it is the tire owner’s failure to maintain proper tire pressure.
Why buy new tires?
The cost these days makes purchasing new tires cost-prohibitive to many. That is why used tire sales have flourished in many countries and the United States. A well-inspected used tire can save the consumer hundreds of dollars and still provide safety. The continuous use of the old worn-out tire is what is dangerous not the use of a good well-inspected used tire A new set of tires can run into the thousands of dollars today which is why the used tire market is booming and a safe alternative.
Go check out online what a 255-35-21 Michelin Pilot Sport 4 costs with acoustic foam for a Tesla costs… close to $500 a tire and in today’s market there are tires for high-end vehicles that are $600-$700 per tire.

Tread Depth
Tread depth is the vertical measurement between the top and the bottom of the rubber pattern on the tire. Statistics show that a depleted tread is one of the main factors of tire-related traffic accidents. You need to measure the tread depth before purchasing a used tire.

Most tires usually have 6 tread wear bars throughout their grooves which serve as indicators for the minimum allowed tread depth which is 2/32”. The bars become visible when the tread is reaching a certain depth. You should measure in different grooves, as used tires may be affected with uneven wear. Tire models have several grades of bars: at 8/32”, 6/32”, 4/32”, and 2/32”.

The best way to do this with an external tool is to use a tread depth gauge. This is an inexpensive tool you can find in any auto shop. Insert the gauge’s pin into a groove and press it towards the tread. You will get a precise reading of your used tire’s tread depth in inches and millimeters. You can also get an accurate reading from a ruler by using a 1/16” scale.

If you don’t happen to have access to any of these, you can also measure tread depth with a penny or a quarter. The two ways of performing this test are:

Checking Tire Depth With Quarter Coin
Checking tire depth with a quarter coin.
Put a penny sideways into a tread groove and look at how much of Lincoln’s head hides in it. If you can see all of it, the tire is worn out with 2/32” tread depth. If a small part of the head is still in the groove, you may have 4/32” tread left. Then use a penny with the Lincoln Memorial facing you. If the top of it is covered by the used tire’s tread, you have 6/32” or more. If you’re using a quarter, insert it between the ribs of the tire and see if the tread covers a part of Washington’s head. If it does, you have a tread of 4/32” or more.

The different levels of depleting tread depth are as follows:
– 6/32” and more is a satisfactory tread depth.

– 5/32” is usually still sufficient, although tires may exhibit weaker traction on wet roads.

– 4-3/32” this level is borderline between still usable and unsafe.

– 2/32” at this level tires are considered bald and unsafe.

Look For Signs of damage
Check the tire for punctures. If the tire had a puncture make sure it was repaired with a professionally installed patch.
Check the bead area is the inner circle of the tire that connects the tire to the wheel and holds it together.

Check the entire surface of the tire for visible cracks or cuts in the sidewall. If the sidewall has bumps or other irregularities it is also unsafe to use as an impact might have forced the rubber to detach from the belts. Also, check for irregular wear that might expose the steel cords inside the tire. If there are some sticking out, the tire is unsafe to use.

You really want to make sure the used tire is safe for driving. In order to help you with that, we made an in-depth article on the topic.

Age of the tire
Tires show a four-digit number that indicates its age on its sidewall. The first two numbers show the week in which it was manufactured, and the other two digits represent the year. For example, a tire with a DOT code of 1518 was made in the 15th week of 2018. You should know the tire’s identification number.

Remember do not thump them Pump them and check regularly your tire pressure with a gauge.

Reuse, reduce, recycle. Buying used tires that are still roadworthy is the highest form of true tire recycling.The United States discards over 300 million scrap tires annually. We can do better when it comes to tire recycling and we have.
But there is still work to be done there are still used tires being dumped illegally in every state,to avoid scrap tire disposal fees. The dumpers of scrap tires in clandestine dumpsites is still occurring, thankfully not as frequently as it once was. It is just out of their own greed that these individuals give an entire industry a bad reputation. Every state at this point has scrap tire laws on what is permitted and who is permitted to transport and dispose of discarded old tires.
Again we reiterate that there is no better use of a take-off tire that can be reused to be used as a used tire.
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Usedtires.com Leading The Way With Used Tire Sales On The Internet From Deerfield Beach

Deerfield-News. com-Deerfield Beach, Fl-The sales of used tires have exploded since the pandemic, owner of Usedtires.com Howard Levy says. Levy who has been selling used tires since 1981 and wholesaling and exporting them since 1991, has entered the online sales market. Having the most recognizable domain usedtires.com has been a great help. When you start selling on the net the best thing you can have is a generic domain and one that is self-explanatory is king. Having a digital asset like usedtires.com has enabled us to catch up and pass by many online used tire sellers. Like the song says we have only just begun. Usedtires.com ships used tires FedEx ground throughout the continental United States from its headquarters in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Usedtires.com specializes in 18″, 19″,20″21”, and 22″ Ultra High-Performance tires for leaseback vehicles. We carry a line of used tires for Audi, BMW, Corvettes, Mercedes, Porsche, and Range Rovers. The used tires we sell in many cases cost $300 to $500 apiece new, many owners do not want to spend thousands on a lease vehicle they are returning so buying high tread used tires is a viable alternative.

Our online store is under construction and will be online shortly. You can find us on eBay, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace, and Offerup .

Usedtires.com also has tires for other vehicles, just give us a call or text at 954-573-5012. If we don’t have it we will try our best to locate them from one of our wholesale customers locally.

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Usedtires.com Leading The Way With Used Tire Sales On The Internet From Deerfield Beach

Usedtires. com- January,11 2022-From-Deerfield-News. com-Deerfield Beach, Fl-The sales of used tires have exploded since the pandemic, owner of Usedtires.com Howard Levy says. Levy who has been selling used tires since 1981 and wholesaling and exporting them since 1991, has entered the online sales market. Having the most recognizable domain usedtires.com has been a great help. When you start selling on the net the best thing you can have is a generic domain and one that is self-explanatory is king. Having a digital asset like usedtires.com has enabled us to catch up and pass by many online used tire sellers. Like the song says we have only just begun. Usedtires.com ships used tires FedEx ground throughout the continental United States from its headquarters in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Usedtires.com specializes in 18″, 19″,20″21”, and 22″ Ultra High-Performance tires for leaseback vehicles. We carry a line of used tires for Audi, BMW, Corvettes, Mercedes, Porsche, and Range Rovers. The used tires we sell in many cases cost $300 to $500 apiece new, many owners do not want to spend thousands on a lease vehicle they are returning so buying high tread used tires is a viable alternative.

USEDTIRES.COM WEBSITE IS PREPARING TO SELL QUALITY USED TIRES ONLINE DIRECT TO CONSUMERS


Used Tire News–Deerfield Beach, Fl- All you have to do is a quick internet search for used tires, used tire, buy used tires, or used tires near me. Inevitably online sellers of used tires will appear at the top of the search result. Usedtires.com is now selling on Facebook Marketplace and eBay. Usedtires.com is also selling on the internet in a few other online marketplaces and the LetGo app. We currently have our website designer working on installing a database generator that will allow you to shop by brand or size for quality used tires.

Chemicals from used car tires causing pollution and killing fish


USED TIRE NEWS- Usedtires.com- NO IT IS NOT USED CAR TIRES CAUSING THE DEATH IT IS CHEMICALS FROM ALL TIRES IN USE WASHING INTO THE WATERWAYS AND THE N KILLING SOHO SALMON A RECENT STUDY SAYS. In a world with many pollution issues and tires have many chemicals in their composition a new study has revealed the following about the hazard of tire s when they denigrate.

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The Guardian-
Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast, study finds
Mass die-offs of coho salmon just before they are about to spawn have been traced to tire fragments washed into streams by rain

Coho salmon, which can grow to 2ft in length, spend their lives in the ocean but return to the US Pacific coast to spawn.
Coho salmon, which can grow to 2ft in length, spend their lives in the ocean but return to the US Pacific coast to spawn. Photograph: NOAA/Alamy

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Pollution from car tires that washes into waterways is helping cause a mass die-off of salmon on the US west coast, researchers have found.

In recent years, scientists have realized half or more of the coho salmon, also known as silver salmon, returning to streams in Washington state were dying before spawning. The salmon, which reach 2ft in length, are born in freshwater streams before making an epic journey out to sea where they live most of their adult lives. A small number then return to their original streams to lay eggs before dying.

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The cause of the die-off has remained a mystery but a new study, published in Science, has seemingly found a culprit. When it rains, stormwater carries fragments of old car tires into nearby creeks and streams. The tires contain certain chemicals that prevent them breaking down but also prove deadly to the coho salmon.

“The salmon would be inexplicably dead, which is tragic because this beautiful wild animal should be culminating its life and then it’s suddenly dead,” said Jenifer McIntyre, an assistant professor of aquatic toxicology at Washington State University. “The more we look, the more we find it. In some years all of the fish we find dead did not spawn.”

Samples taken from urban streams around Puget Sound, near Seattle, and subsequent laboratory work identified a substance called 6PPD, which is used as a preservative for car tires, as the toxic chemical responsible for killing the salmon. It’s currently unclear how it kills the fish but McIntyre said it was likely to be an “acute cardio-respiratory problem”.

The finding suggests that fish and other creatures elsewhere in the US and around the world are also at risk from the car tire chemical. Animals are being “exposed to this giant chemical soup and we don’t know what many of the chemicals in it even are”, said co-author Edward Kolodziej, an associate professor at the University of Washington.

Researchers Jenifer McIntyre, from left, Edward Kolodziej and Zhenyu Tian investigate the salmon die-off at Longfellow Creek, an urban creek in the Seattle area.
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Researchers Jenifer McIntyre, from left, Edward Kolodziej and Zhenyu Tian investigate the salmon die-off at Longfellow Creek, an urban creek in the Seattle area. Photograph: Mark Stone/University of Washington
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“Here we started with a mix of 2,000 chemicals and were able to get all the way down to this one highly toxic chemical, something that kills large fish quickly and we think is probably found on every single busy road in the world,” Kolodziej added.

The nature of the threat facing coho salmon has been unclear since the fish were first seen “rolling” down streams, unable to swim upright, in the 1990s, McIntyre said. In an undisturbed riparian area it would be extremely rare for a coho salmon to die before laying its eggs but a growing sprawl of roads, cars and buildings near waterways has coincided with a surge in pre-spawning deaths. A reduction in 6PPD use or buffers to prevent the flow of pollution could help stem the loss of salmon, McIntyre said.

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Coho salmon are federally listed as either threatened or endangered along the US west coast and have diminished greatly from highly developed areas, such as near San Francisco. They are just one species of salmon facing an array of threats from dams, polluting and the climate crisis.

This summer, federal authorities gave permission for a cull of hundreds of sea lions along the Columbia River basin in a desperate attempt to save declining numbers of Chinook and sockeye salmon. More recently, the US government decided to block a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska that would have threatened the world’s largest wild salmon run.

“Most species of salmon are experiencing a serious threat at least somewhere in their native range,” said McIntyre. “One of my lifelong goals would be to make our cohabitation with them more sustainable. Salmon are beautiful and delicious and important to ecosystems but they are becoming a rare thing for people to experience.”

USEDTIRES.COM ONLINE STORE IS COMING


UsedTires.com- Deerfield Beach, Fl-Used Tire News-As we reported yesterday, you have asked and we have listened. Usedires.com the worldwide leader in used tire sales will be offering used tires direct to the public. Stay tuned to our news posts and we will keep you updated.
As we have reported many times this year the fastest growing sector of the sued tire industry is online direct to consumer. Much like Tire rack has mastered the online tire sales niche Usedtires.com hopes to master the inline used tire sales niche. We will be offering the highest quality used tires in singles, pairs and sets direct to you.

Used Tire News-Blackcycle By Michelin Tire Recycling End Of Life For Tires


Used Tire News-Usedtires.com-Deerfield Beach, Fl-BlackCycle – potential “game-changer” for end-of-life tires and recycled tire rubber

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

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According to expert opinion in the tire recycling industry, BlackCycle – the research project coordinated by Michelin – can revolutionize end-of-life tire recycling worldwide. This opinion was voiced by experts during a meeting of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) at its Tires & Rubber Committee on October 15, 2020.

There was tangible excitement at the BIR Tyres & Rubber Committee webinar on October 15 following a guest presentation on the recycling of end-of-life tires (ELTs) into secondary raw materials for tires and other product applications.

The Committee’s Chairman Max Craipeau of China-based Greencore Resources Ltd said the BlackCycle research project coordinated by major producer Michelin had the potential to “revolutionize” ELT recycling at a time when the key crumb rubber market was under severe threat. If successful, it could mean that, in five to six years from now, around half of Europe’s ELTs would be incorporated as secondary raw materials into new tires, he added.

According to Michelin, the €16-million project currently involves five research and technology organizations, seven industrial partners and an innovation cluster. Moreover, it spans activities such as tire collection, shredding and granulation, tire pyrolysis, rectification of tire pyrolysis oil into valuable materials, production of recovered carbon black.

Martin von Wolfersdorff’s calculation of the sheer size of the BlackCycle project, a tire recycling collaboration of Michelin, Orion Engineered Carbons, Pyrum Innovations AG, ALIAPUR and others. | Video of Bureau of International Recycling’s Tires & Rubber Committee online meeting: courtesy of Martin von Wolfersdorff.

Michaël Cogne of Michelin pinpointed that the aim of BlackCycle project is to address recovered carbon black and pyrolytic oil as well as “to find the best way to valorize everything to a good level of performance.”

Describing the BlackCycle project, BIR writes: “Chemical competencies would be used to refine oils to create a desirable feedstock for the manufacture of carbon black, he added.”

“With the full value chain, you have a good chance to valorize all the outputs for use in “high-value applications”, added Michaël Cogne describing the research which aims to revolutionize tire recycling and the use of recycled tire rubber and tire-derived materials.

The project is expected to be beneficial for the industry players involved in end-of-life tire management and recycling. Max Craipeau, the committee chairman, said that the key aspect of the initiative is that end-of-life tire collectors, recyclers and tire pyrolysis operators would “still have a major role to play in the industry as providers of added-value feedstock.”

According to BIR’s chairman, this is expected to apply even to small and medium-sized tire recyclers, allowing such operators to continue exploiting their present equipment.

Another Tires & Rubber Committee panelist Martin von Wolfersdorff – recovered carbon black expert and head of Wolfersdorff Consulting in Berlin – praised the BlackCycle recycling objectives as exceeding Michelin’s initial Vision 2048 goals. He estimated a recovered carbon black production of around 400,000 tons per annum and a sustainable carbon black production of some 80,000 tons per annum by 2030 if every second European tire were recycled in the BlackCycle system.

Martin von Wolfersdorff and Robert Weibold – a tire recycling and pyrolysis consulting expert from Vienna – were also impressed by the “all-star cast” gathered by Michelin, as well as by the “deep integration” of the research venture. During the event, they also actively discussed breakthrough technologies and projects to drive circular economy in the end-of-life tire recycling sector.

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Photo: courtesy of Bureau of International Recycling.

In its press release devoted to the online event, BIR pinpoints that the webinar participants acknowledged that the emergence of this potentially huge outlet for end-of-life tires was particularly well-timed given the regulatory storm clouds currently gathering over the main outlet for crumb rubber use as infill for sports pitches, a topic discussed in greater depth at the BIR Tires & Rubber Committee’s eForum in June this year. Speaking at the webinar, Mr. Craipeau expressed the fear that a ban on infill “is on its way”.

In a brief market analysis, Mr. Craipeau confirmed that the pandemic had dramatically reduced the number of vehicles on roads and therefore ELT arisings, forcing many recyclers to turn to their buffer stocks. On the demand side, COVID had curtailed the number of projects requiring crumb rubber, including the development of sports pitches.