255,000 Chinese-made tires recalled

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Posted on Thu, Aug. 09, 2007

255,000 Chinese-made tires recalled

By JEFFREY GOLD
AP Business Writer

NEWARK, N.J. -- A tire importer said Thursday it would
recall 255,000 Chinese-made tires it claims were defective
because they lack a safety feature that prevents tread
separation.

The recall involves half the number of tires that the
importer, Foreign Tire Sales Inc., had identified in June
as possibly posing a risk.

The models involved are steel-belted radial replacement
tires for pickups, vans and sport utility vehicles that
consumers bought from early 2004 through mid-2006,
Foreign Tire Sales said.

The small company, based in Union, was ordered by the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in June
to recall as many as 450,000 tires that it bought from
Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. since 2002.

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Read more: http://www.charlotte.com/nation/story/229679.html

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Article goes on to list brands and DOT numbers recalled.

[jgraz]

1. Lemme guess...they discovered that they contained toothpaste

[krispos42]

2. and lead! n/t

[SeattleGirl]

3. And ingredients harmful to our pets.

Man, this is getting to be really freakin' crazy.

I was listening to AAR today, and there was a segment on one of the host's shows (forgive me, I can't recall which one), saying that a very recent survey showed that there are many, many people in this country who don't want to buy anything made in China, because of all the problems with Chinese-made products that have been in the news.

[krispos42]

4. Well, it's about damn time

I hate buying things nowadays. I hate my money going to support a repressive, opressive, polluting, nuclear-armed, exploitive Communist country that aspires to be our rival superpower.

[David__77]

5. So...

You'd rather money go to support a repressive, opressive, polluting, nuclear-armed, exploitive capitalist country that aspires to maintain its status as sole superpower?

[donco]

15. That employees Americans, yes. nt

[krispos42]

17. Yes!

We are less repressive, less oppressive, less polluting, and the first two can change overnight depending on the leadership in DC.

Not to mention that the more we make here, the less we have to transport back and forth across the Pacific.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. hey, we are emulating them

stricter controls by a central government, lack of inspections of products, food stuffs, increased polution, Bush LOVES the Chinese way.

[Cobalt Violet]

9. And they're made with human hair. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

6. People in glass houses......................

Forgotten this maybe from 6 years ago ?

Ford has confirmed it will recall 13 million tyres at a cost of $2.1bn, marking the end of its 100-year relationship with US tyre-maker Firestone.

The plans to replace up to 13 million Firestone tyres is in addition to last year's massive recall.

"We do not have the confidence in these tyres to keep our customers safe," said Jacques Nassar, chief executive of Ford at a press conference.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1345087.stm

I think it's reasonably safe to assume those were not Chinese tyres ?

[Eugene]

7. Haven't forgotten. The Firestone recall was news and so is this.

Bridgestone-Firestone was called to account for
quality control and design problems, and its CEO
was called before Congress.

Shouldn't Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber be pointed out
for leaving out a basic component of its tires?

Anyhow, the tires are out there and have been recalled.
That's LBN.

[madrchsod]

10. the company did not want the union at that plant

the union went public on the way bridgestone was cutting costs in the assembling of the tires and all hell broke lose. i have never bought a bridgestone product since.

[tabasco]

16. I just had to replace some Bridgestones @ 10,000 miles.

Never again.

[madrchsod]

8. before bridgestone bought the plant

the workers made fine tyres. the management of bridgestone demoralized the workers and cut corners where ever they could and those actions resulted in the Tyree scandal. no it was not a chinese company it was a japanese company...

[nolabels]

11. When you have a relative killed because of one of those faulty tires..........

then all those bastards who have had a hand in that dirty work of making those piece of shit tires become bastards. This is capitalism run amok, there is no good reason that the people who are charge to enforce known safety standards should have ever let the crap go on. These consummate conservatives complain that all these cheap goods they buy fall apart and then they also have the issue with the government that wants too much in taxes. They are both part of the same problem known as greed.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. no, it was MBA-driven US management.

Japanese have extraordinarily high standards for stuff they make.

[Javaman]

14. This just in...

China (AP) - 225,000 chinese tires were recalled yesterday when they were found to roll only back-wards.

Engineers are perplexed over the defect. Dr. Simon Fuzwinkle of the University of Important Stuff in Chicago, examined the tires and had this to say, "it's amazing, when I try rolling it forward, it refuses to move, however if I roll it back-wards, no problem. But oddly, if I spin the tire around the same thing happens. It makes absolutely no sense!"

The Chinese tire defect has been traced to one of the machines which manufactures the tires. Apparently, someone on the night shift flipped a switch indicating only back-wards instead of the standard, "both ways".

The old tires will be replace with new ones at a nominal charge.

[Snazzy]

18. AP U.S. Recall Angers Chinese Tire Maker

BEIJING - Firing back over product safety fears, China's Health Ministry accused foreign media Friday of exaggerating the country's food purity problems, while a Chinese tire maker at the center of a huge U.S. recall accused the American importer of distortions.

While China faces "severe challenges" in ensuring food safety, foreign media are playing up the problems and have ulterior motives, Health Ministry spokesman Mao Qun'an told a news conference.

"The question of food safety is a problem the whole world faces," Mao said.

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The Union, N.J.-based company has been sued by the families of two men killed when their van crashed in Pennsylvania in August 2006. The lawsuit says the van had tires made by China's Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co.

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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/10/ap4008978.html