Recall Urged of Chinese Tires That Could Fall Apart on Road
NEWARK, N.J. — Federal safety officials have ordered a New Jersey tire importer to recall as many as 450,000 tires that it bought from a Chinese manufacturer and sold to U.S. distributors.
Foreign Tire Sales Inc., of Union, said an unknown number of the light truck radials it imported since 2002 from Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., of Hangzhou, China, could suffer tread separation — meaning the tires could fall apart on the road — a problem that led to the nation's largest tire recall in 2000.
FTS said 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 in a filing to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Some of the tires had a gum strip about half the 0.6 millimeter width that FTS expected, it said.
Heather Hopkins, a spokeswoman for NHTSA, said its enforcement officials spoke to FTS on Monday to "let them know we want a full tire recall to take place."
"It is FTS' responsibility to do this," Hopkins said."
Not content with poisoning our pets, those knuckleheads formerly known as the Yellow Peril have now taken to precipitating the possibility of catastrophic automobile accidents. In a way this pleases me, as the last time I had reason to check out Chinese "Hi-Tech" weapons of war I didn't stop laughing for quite a while, and it's good to see they still can't make squat without screwing the pooch.
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