tire recall

[Dustytuu]

Found this in the news paper... Probably won't apply to trailer tires but maybe for a home car or light truck.


450,000 Chinese tires recalled





NEWARK, N.J. — Federal safety officials have ordered a tiny tire importer to recall as many as 450,000 tires that it bought from a Chinese manufacturer.
Foreign Tire Sales Inc., of Union, N.J., said that an unknown number of the light truck radials it imported since 2002 from Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., of Hangzhou, China, could develop tread separation, a problem that led to the nation’s largest tire recall in 2000.
FTS said that an unknown number of the tires it sold were made without a safety feature, called a gum strip, which helps bind the belts of a tire to each other, the company said.
According to the filing, the Hangzhou tires at issue were sold under at least four brand names — Westlake, Compass, Telluride and YKS — in these sizes: LT235/75R-15; LT225/75R-16; LT235/85R-16; LT245/75R-16; LT265/75R-16; and LT3X10.5-15.

[Charlie]

This item was on yesterday's ABC evening news. They also said that 48% of all Chinese products have to be recalled. Don't know why retailers trade with them.

[skypilot]

This morning 'Morning' shows each had news detailing import restrictions now being imposed on farm grown fish because of problems. Being a world economy, we expect (and need) to have products grown in various parts of the world. However, we expect the items we buy to be of quality commensurate with what we pay for them; and not injurious to our health. Oh, this could become a big soap-box item......