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Adz
13-10-2010, 22:02
Delivered to DUNLOP at Birmingham today & they told me there's a Global tyre shortage :eek:

Anybody in the tyre industry or in the know to shed some light on it :confused:

Would explain why www.camskill.com is always out of stock these days :(

makeitfit
13-10-2010, 22:07
Didn't think it was a rubber shortage so much as all the new EU regs are kicking in :doh
Quiet mud tyres for example :banghead

(RIP) PLANK
13-10-2010, 22:08
i hope it doesn't spred to other rubber products or the governments plans to cut child benefit will be scupered :lol

Adz
13-10-2010, 22:10
Bloody EU :mad:

Worst thing we ever did :banghead

(RIP) PLANK
13-10-2010, 22:16
quiet mud tyres? it's a wind up surely?

makeitfit
13-10-2010, 22:19
It's true I tell you :rolleyes:
BFG have only just got their new muds in the country :o

Fez_uk
13-10-2010, 22:21
I better be able to get some tyres!

solarman216
13-10-2010, 22:42
Bloody EU :mad:

Worst thing we ever did :banghead

TOTALLY AGREE, Rick

The Patrolman
13-10-2010, 23:16
Give all the imigrants and drains on society a free ticket to France on Euro star!
When they've gone fill in the tunnel and become an Island again!!!
Sorted!!!

As for tyre shortage I went into the norths biggest tyre wholesalers on monday and they had next to nowt for my Vito, 4-5 brands were on back order!!!!

solarman216
13-10-2010, 23:37
Give all the imigrants and drains on society a free ticket to France on Euro star!
When they've gone fill in the tunnel and become an Island again!!!
Sorted!!!

!!

Well said that man, send em all back, and lets get some half decent boarder controls, but pie in the sky, it aint going to happen, so look after yourself and stuff the system, I been doin it for years, just ask the guys that have visited me here, Rick

briggie
13-10-2010, 23:39
RUBBER SHORTAGE ? ...... OMG MUST BE ALL THE CHEQUES IVE BEEN WRITING OUT :augie

rustic
14-10-2010, 08:27
I don't know about rubber shortage, I was in Wickes the other day and noticed the price of copper pipe seems to have doubled since the last time I bought some.:nenau

Are we getting low on resources?
On the news this morning: even getting low on exclusive handbags with a limit of 1 per customer.

If ever there is over production, eg too much bread,
limit it to a maximum of 2 loaves per customer, and guess what?, nearly every customer will buy 2 even if they don't need them, and then go back in to buy some more.:doh

If we had gone in with USA instead of Europe, what would have been the consequences?

Would we all be driving the 6 litre dodge pick up trucks, instead of BMW', Audi's etc? and gas (petrol) at 1/3 of our current price.

Thatcher tried to make better links with Reagan during her time in office.


Back to the tyres, if they are getting that rare..... Wheel locking nuts may be a good item to buy, even on steel wheels.
Also people will run them down to the limit 1.6mm or even lower. :doh

Rustic

patbhoy
14-10-2010, 08:48
Give all the imigrants and drains on society a free ticket to France on Euro star!

Too late, the froggies beat us to that one.
Just a pity they're coming to us.....

spiderpig37
14-10-2010, 10:45
theres been a shortage of earthmover tyres for at least the last five years when i worked for Cemex last year(until they made me redundant:sly0 we have had machines sat on the docks waiting to be delivered to us sat on wooden wheels? Michelin was saying that with all the construction going on in china and india all the earthmover tyres were going there.

(RIP) PLANK
14-10-2010, 13:49
Too late, the froggies beat us to that one.
Just a pity they're coming to us.....

i wonder when they'll come and send me back? :(

tezzer
14-10-2010, 18:17
hear plank, it's a wonder your not whingeing a bout the racist's remarks, you soon get on my case quick enough, :lol

elty001
14-10-2010, 18:34
i hope it doesn't spred to other rubber products or the governments plans to cut child benefit will be scupered :lol

why not re cycle all that rubber and call it a good year:thumbs

(RIP) PLANK
14-10-2010, 19:04
why not re cycle all that rubber and call it a good year:thumbs

very funny, reminds me of a joke but it's too long to type :doh

Adz
14-10-2010, 20:08
Well there is definitely a rubber / tyre shortage as i went to the tractor plant today & they have over a 1000 tractors in storage with no tyres :eek:

It's global apparently & the tyre shortage is here to stay for the foreseeable future :eek:

The cheaper tyres & not so common makes are up in sales but they won't last for ever :rolleyes:

I reckon "Re-Tread's" that are only made for trucks will soon be made for cars :nenau

(RIP) PLANK
14-10-2010, 20:39
hear plank, it's a wonder your not whingeing a bout the racist's remarks, you soon get on my case quick enough, :lol

You're a bit slow there mate, and i don't wninge i just try to challenge racsim where i see it, it's good practice, and try not to be bigotted and prejudiced with nothing more than a meagre bit of hearsay or tabliod rumour to go on. I am on the whole an easy going person, i try to get along with everyone, even stupid people, not that i'm suggesting there are any one here.:augie

i trust that will offend no one, as i'm the only whinger here, there will be no need for complaints :lol :thumbs

MontysMaverick
14-10-2010, 20:41
A little info for you all, There has been a rubber shortage for around 5 /6 yrs as I did a stint on Michelin at Stoke and can confirm a few things, Firstly, Michelin have 2 depots that are constantly supplying ATS (Michelin owns ATS) Stoke and Basildon, and also they own Kleber and BFG, they bring tyres in to stoke from Slovenia and Slovakia and Czech mainly via east european transports firms, Now Stoke is just a warehousing facility employing around 500 people, in the 80s they had a manufacturing plant there and employed around 26000 people. Uk border control are constantly looking at the Michelin as its so easy to hide in the middle of the tractor tyres. BFG 4X4 tyres come in the same way via eastern europe as its a fix for taxation laws US TO UK My opinion is that roll on the revolution so we can be rid of the EU and the foreigners and maybe life will be so much more pleasent, but somehow I am grabbing for the pipe and dreaming me thinks :lol :lol :lol Oh and I would never buy a tyre from ATS as the mark up is at least twice as much as your local tyre dealer

Terranosaurus
14-10-2010, 21:34
I reckon "Re-Tread's" that are only made for trucks will soon be made for cars :nenau

ReTreads have ben around for cars for almost as long as rubber tyres have been available.



Anyway time to fess up I think its my fault, all the tyres are in my back garden, I keep selling some but the pile never seems to get any smaller :D:D:D

solarman216
14-10-2010, 22:12
Question???? cannot old tyres be re cycled into new tyres or is this not possible, we seem to have big problems getting rid of old tyres, here we can only take 4 per month to the tip and after banger racing I have over 100 to get rid of,:nenau:nenau:nenau Rick

(RIP) PLANK
14-10-2010, 22:20
Question???? cannot old tyres be re cycled into new tyres or is this not possible, we seem to have big problems getting rid of old tyres, here we can only take 4 per month to the tip and after banger racing I have over 100 to get rid of,:nenau:nenau:nenau Rick

as far as i know they can't, maybe that is the way forward finding a recyclable material for amking tyres, dragons den here we come!

Terranosaurus
14-10-2010, 22:22
Question???? cannot old tyres be re cycled into new tyres or is this not possible

Selected carcasses are used for retreading/remoulding the rest are just scrap.

(RIP) PLANK
14-10-2010, 22:25
there is a cmpany close to me that makes rubber chippings for play areas, horse excersise yards etc from old tyres, they take the sttel out some how and chip the rest. Better than landfill i suppose.

jims-terrano
14-10-2010, 22:26
Don't know much about retreads but I won't go near remoulds:eek:

Jim

(RIP) PLANK
14-10-2010, 22:29
Don't know much about retreads but I won't go near remoulds:eek:

Jim

modern remoulds are, or rather were, very good, but colway went under and kingpin don't seem to have much of a range or many sizes in stock. I have no problem with remoulds. Apparently there big problem is getting enough suitable old tyres, it's the new tyres that aren't up to scratch for the job, and competition from cheap imported brands from china and pacific rim countries.

Terranosaurus
14-10-2010, 22:31
Don't know much about retreads but I won't go near remoulds:eek:

Jim

Same thing, many of the wagon on the road are running on retreaded/remoulded tyres. Nothing wrong with them IMHO

jims-terrano
14-10-2010, 22:50
Oh yeah I've seen trucks with them on. There used to be speed restrictions didn't there? I also understand that any tyre can go bang whether it's brand new or remould.

Does anyone know if the claims about fuel saving tyres are true? the Scenic 15DCI that we have came as standard with Mich Energy Savers and we've kept on having those fitted when needed simply to keep them all the same. The car is very economic I have to say which I think is more down to the engine and fuel system. That's about as good as it get's really as we both prefer to drive the T2.

Jim

Adz
14-10-2010, 22:55
Same thing, many of the wagon on the road are running on retreaded/remoulded tyres. Nothing wrong with them IMHO

Correct mate

All lorry's only have original new tyres from new then they have re-tread where they glue the tread on after shaving the remainder of the old off. These tyres are how ever only used on the rear wheels & trailers. Then re-moulds on the front.
That's why when you see lorry's with blow outs, its always on the rear.
Hence why you only see the tyre tread debris on the road, its where its got hot & come unstuck.

solarman216
14-10-2010, 23:00
The only retread I have experience of was a 10.00 X 20 truck tyre fitted to my semi trailer (32 ton) in Birmingham late on a Friday night got as far as Scrachwood services M1 before it disintegrated, firm I worked for would only fit new tyres but the call out firm in Brm scammed them rotten, and in over 500,000 miles on that firm it was only the second flat I ever had, Rick