Keep your eye on this one & and your Chinese Marathons!
I thought this was important enough to pass along!
"U.S. officials have told a small New Jersey importer to recall 450,000 radial tires for pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans after the company disclosed that its Chinese manufacturer had stopped including a safety feature that prevented the tires from separating.
Tread separation is the same defect that led to the recall of millions of Firestone tires in 2000. At the time, tire failure was linked to an increased risk of rollover of light trucks and SUV's.
The company first suspected problems in October 2005. Almost a year later, in September 2006, the Chinese manufacturer, Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber, a former state-owned company based in eastern China, acknowledged that a gum strip that prevents the tread from separating was left out of the manufacturing process.
The company, Foreign Tire Sales of Union, New Jersey, had originally sought the U.S. government's help with a recall, saying it did not have enough money to recall all the tires itself. Typically, importers are responsible for the cost of recalling defective foreign products."
"An official at Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber, reached late Monday, declined to comment. The defective tires are sold under the brand names Westlake, Compass, Telluride and YKS, Lavigne said.
Tire separation led to a much larger recall in 2000. Firestone recalled 6.5 million tires after at least 271 people were killed and hundreds more injured in accidents involving its tires coming apart. It is not clear how many defective tires might be on the road."
I swear, between the axle recall, the fridge recall and the never ending saga on tires, it's enough to make you want to chuck RVing sometimes.
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Can't be good any way you look at it. Seems every day there is something new about products made in China. Several toys recently, and now big boy toys....
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Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq and millions of others are by far the most popular with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. -NY Times 1991
OK. So all of the tire threads here of doom and gloom and I am sure worried about rolling anywhere beyond the driveway. But I just went out and looked at my Marathons and they say made in Canada. Is that a province in China?
Well, since 2004, it is entirely possible that if you bought some recently built Marathons that they could now say Made in China if in fact production had shifted there.
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Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq and millions of others are by far the most popular with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form. -NY Times 1991
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