Last week, works minister Baru Bian said that based on statistics revealed by the Malaysian Highway Authority (MHA), more than 10,000 accident cases in the country were due to the use of retreaded tyres on heavy vehicles and lorries every year.
Now, the Tyre Retreading Manufacturers Association of Malaysia (TRMAM) has described that statement as being unfair, Bernama reports. Its president Chin Hon Meng said this was because products from companies under TRMAM are compliant with standards that have been set, and these companies were accredited with MS 224:2005 certification as stipulated by the road transport department (JPJ).
He added that the mandatory product certification for retreaded tyres was also gazetted by the government in November 2007. “The certification, whereby the tyres are put through endurance and performance tests, is in compliance with the MS 1394:2017 standards and equivalent to the European commercial vehicle tyres standards (ECE R109),” Chin said.
“All the negative comments on retreaded tyres are being made without objective and technical knowledge, hence blaming all defective trucks and bus tyre failures to retreaded tyres is unreasonable,” he said, offering the view that many other factors, such as under-inflation of tyres, speeding and uneven roads could lead to such accidents.
He said that retreaded tyres were being used worldwide, including in the United States, Europe and Japan, and some tyre distributors have contracted qualified retreading tyre factories to produce tyres for them.
“This is happening worldwide. If the retreaded tyres are not safe, do you think they will want to appoint and to sell these tyres under their name?” he said
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im more shocked that this is actually a legal practice with an association in place
It is legal & safe if you follow procedure, truck tyres are designed to be rethreaded. Most Malaysian truck drivers don’t.
U mean in United States, Europe and Japan?
Salah, im more shocked that Proton is actually a legal practice with an association in place
This is the same person that says passenger car tyres can be rethreaded.
Retreaded are dangerous!Europe countries use retreaded tyres for winter and usually for their caravans! They dont tend to drive at highspeeds when using retreaded tyres.Unlike malaysians, found a straight stretch of road floor je kereta, campur nak kena brake to elak uneducated drivers pun bahaya because of braking performance sampah when using retreaded tyres
Retreaded are dangerous!Europe countries use retreaded tyres for winter and usually for their caravans! They dont tend to drive at highspeeds when using retreaded tyres.Unlike malaysians, found a straight stretch of road floor je kereta, campur nak kena brake to elak uneducated drivers pun bahaya because of braking performance sampah when using retreaded tyres …
If the retreaded tyres are not safe, do you think they will want to appoint and to sell these tyres under their name?” he said.
“If retreaded tyres are safe and of high quality, why do we always see the tyres come loose on highways?”, I ask.
Why I kept reading “retarded tyres”…
The fact is, re threading is a common practice for commercial vehicles.
The problem is, who will enforce the standards? Are ALL tayar celup manufacturing adhering to the standards or even members of the association?
There is also a lack of enforcement (where are the weighbridges???) and maintenance. Lorry could be grossly overloaded and partially to blame for the tyre failures. How about tyre pressure monitoring?
It is not rare to see really badly maintained lorries on the road. Do you think these drivers care about the conditions of thier tyres?
Loke, please ban all retreaded tyres for the safety of the people on
it is time for the government to limit or to forbid the use of retreaded tyres. US, Europe and Japan has since reducing the use of retreaded tyres. and mind you, it is with a strict enforcement and high standard of compliance.
its not ‘using’ which cause the problem, but its about how the retreaded tires being taken care off. u abuse it kaw kaw or inner tube not got enough air pressure, sure it will peel off.
one question to TRMAM: do retreaded tires have expiry date after being installed? or just use/abuse it until it wears off?
Since this is safety related, it’s time to relook into the spec if further tightening the existing is a necessary step.
dulu selamat skrg lg selamat.
https://paultan.org/2017/04/21/tayar-celup-yang-diluluskan-sirim-selamat-kp-jpj/
The problem with Msia is the nut behind the driving wheel….the driver!
its simple. supply and demand.
however, government should control original tyre pricing. new tyres are expensive, forcing some people adopt retreaded tyres. don’t just pick one factor to become a caused.
I work in tyre industry, most of the retread rubber burst was from truck and basically there was no issue with bus. The retread tyre burst in most cases are high temperature which cause the “glue” on retread tyre degraded but there was no issue if the factor is only hot weather without overloading.
The most killing part for retread tyre is “overloading”, most of the trucks carry sand, timber, machinery etc are highly overloading. These trucks carry the weight is 50% or 100% higher than the maximum allowed weight of the tyre. Combine with hot weather tyre degraded faster and may cause tyre burst. There are also external factors like tyre hit sharp object, high big polholes or under-inflation of tyres will damage the tyre (no matter is new or retread).
JPJ should put more effort to take down overloading truck as this factor contribute most tyre burst cases. TRMAM can’t stop these trucks as they no way to know how these trucks being used. JKR also should repair pothole as soon as they can to ensure safety of road users. And government body should have set visit to retread factories from time to time to ensure their product and process are complied with standard.
Clearly lack of enforcement and sloppy work by previous govt and ministers rearing its ugly heads now. JPJ officers instead got arrested in cloned car and lesen terbang sindikets.
IMHO about retreading tyre usage :-
1. No Knowledge – many user have no idea what is retreaded tyre and how retreaded tyre is made or how to handle it. It limitation, the law and regulation or it maintenance, or what is the risk of using this type of tyre . this lead to no 2.
2. No service – because user are zero or lack of knowledge – they buy and use the tyre and they never care about the maintenance – such as to check the tyre inflation, to replace tyre timely ar conditionly.
3. Delay the service – e.g they know the eisk and danger of using this type of tyre due to it poor performance of the retreading process but reluctant to use brand new tyre due to cost. But they don’t care.
4. Design failure – the producing and the retreading process itself can be consider as design failure. This compromise tyre performance and at the end compromise safety when the tyre fail. And the last one is…
5. No knowledge or skill to drive or misoperation of using retreaded tyre.
This is 5 reason the root cause of incident involving the use of retreading tyre.
Pls consider to ultimately ban vehicle that use retreaded tyre on our road. For the sake of our safety and our life.