SMITH INDUSTRIAL TIRES Sales and Service of forklift tires, lift truck tires and industrial tires

Tire Tech?

Q: What tire should we buy to support the John Deere 544 series that will be used in high heat, oily surfaces and be subject to sharp objects?

A: In this type of environment, we at Smith's Industrial Tires have found the Monarch E-Class Soft Shoe 14 X 24 tire to be the best solution for this type of tire application. The wear and resistance has shown greater durability and improved ride and longevity. It's wide foot pattern and deep tread designs provide a good grab. The overall composition of the tire provides excellent cusion and cost effectiveness while maintaining a smooth ride.

Q: What is the advantage of retreading a industrial tire?

A: It would greatly depend on the tires intended usage. Retreading can save you up to 40% of the cost of buying a new tire. Although this seems to be cost effective in some cases it could mean less in longevity therefore forcing your business to purchase more tires. A big consideration and known fact is that you should only retread or wrap a tire twice. After that the tire could be subject to a safety factor. This factor is often caused by tread to old tire suface seperation.

Q: What is the prime wear of a tire and what should we look for?

A: Prime wear can be hard to explain because of the use it is being put through. Although many of today's tires have a bar located on the side wall that is actively used to measure when its due for replacement. There are other factors as well such as cracks, roundness and composition breakdown that may effect this determination.

Q: Your site and business seems to carry a huge selection of tires from many makers, is there one that stands out above the rest?

A: To address this question, we must make clear our quality and business goal. We do carry many major and small manufactured industrial and commercial tires. This selection is for the continued benefit of our clients. To say that one tire is better than the other would be unfair. What we will say is that for each company that we sell tires for each provides us with a tire solution that in many cases is better than some of the others being offered for the application. So we can honestly state that one tire might be better that another matching equal but another tire line maybe better for that application. We pride our business in being able to supply what our customer's request or choose to remain with. At Smith Industrial Tire you are the most important factor in our business that we we remain Southern California's prime tire dealer and service center.