RETREADS GONE BAD
I’m an avid reader of Aviation Consumer (and miss reading Light Plane Maintenance). In your May 2019 issue you published a report on retreaded tires, and your recommendation of Desser Aerospace led me to buy five retreads to fit my Beech Bonanza, using my existing cores. These tires were then installed and balanced.
My A36 Bonanza is hangared in San Diego, California, with some time spent in another hangar during an avionics upgrade—perhaps being outside overnight for fewer than nine days. I noticed attention-getting cracks on all three of the retreaded tires as shown on the one pictured here.