Commercial Retreading in Hickory, NC

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Did you know McGee Commercial Tire & Services is one of the top Top 100 Retreaders in the country? We are proud to be a Goodyear Authorized Retreader and follow the upmost standards, policies and procedures to ensure the highest quality and safest retreads. Goodyear offers a number of retread technologies, from the spliceless construction of its premium UniCircle® retreads, to its Unitraditional precure retreads, to Goodyear's new Gold Medallion Retreads that meet the premium casing specifications of large national fleets. Whether you operate long haul, regional or mixed service trucks, you can get the performance you need by choosing from Goodyear's application-specific tread designs.

Why Retread?

• Less Costly - Retreading your tires, rather than buying brand new tires, can save a bundle – something we all need in this dire economy. By re-using an existing tire casing and adding new tread, you can receive a more efficient cost per mile of your tires.
• Environmentally Friendly - Retreading is an environmentally friendly approach to the constant need and manufacture of tires. Rather than using materials to create brand new tires, retreads use the casing from existing tires, which cuts down on the number of resources being wasted. Each casing can have up to three or four lives, which means three or four retreaded tires as opposed to three or four costly new tires.
• Safety - It is a myth that retread tires are not safe for drivers. A lot of the rubber found on highways and interstates comes from drivers who continued driving on a flat tire. And most of those torn flats were new tires. With the process used in retreading today, it is virtually impossible for a casing to separate from its tread. Nearly every major airline uses retreads.

What is Shearography?

We are one of only 2 retreaders in the state to offer Shearography inspection. How does Shearography work, you ask? First, Laser light reflected back off the surface of the tire. As the tire is stressed in a vacuum, the surface topography inside of the tire changes and the reflected light comes back at a slightly different angle. Images are captured before and after the vacuum cycle or in the case of Differometry before, during and after the vacuum cycle and this image information is processed giving the resultant image. The way this reflected light information is collected and processed is what makes these systems/methods different. In Shearography the reflected light must pass thru a shearing optical element, hence the name Shearography (shear, to cut or separate and graph to record). The shearing optical element separates the view producing a interferogram that displays a double or laterally displaced image. It will find manufacturing flaws in a new tire, but when used to examine used tires, it is capable of finding a multitude of problems, such as inner tire damage, run flat tires, sidewall impact, separations, and retread issues.

GTRACS

Whether you’re managing a national or local fleet, GTRACS gives you valuable information about your tires and retreads. This data will help you make informed tire decisions that can save your fleet lots of money. When a commercial truck tire is brought to one of Goodyear’s Truckwise locations for repairs or retreading, it is marked with a bar code. The bar code is scanned at every workstation throughout the retread process so you can track your service and performance records. Once your tires are serviced or retreaded, Goodyear will provide you with charts and graphs that show the efficiency of each tire or retread, so you can see what combination of tires works best in the long run. Qualified fleet customers can even access this information on-line with Fleethq.

McGee Commercial Tire & Services offers Commercial Retreading

With multiple commercial locations in Florida and North Carolina, we are ready to provide you with a quality commercial retreading service. Simply contact any of our locations to schedule an appointment or ask any questions about our service. We look forward to earning your business!