Failure of tire recall system
Jan issue of Motorhome magazine had item on tire recalls and how an owner was not notified by either the RV company or the tire company. Luckily the owner saw a news story about the tire recall and ha...
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bucky wrote:
I fought this process for years. I had to constantly monitor my team to make sure that they were doing it. A card can be given to the customer, mailed for the customer, or entered online.
Any bets on how vigilant commissioned staff members are on this? It's a huge fine per tire, but no way can it be enforced other than spot checks.
Putting the darn thing on both sides of the tire would help, meaning the year and week also. One manufacturer did but don't remember which one. Michelin or Bridgestone maybe.
Tire date codes are only placed on one side of a tire due to the safety issues involved if a worker had to manually change the mold insert in the upper half of the curing mold working over top of the +/-350 deg.F lower mold half. Various remote code changing methods have been tried from time to time, but apparently none have worked well enough or economically enough so far for the NHTSA to require both sidewall date coding.
