New Michelin LTX M/S recall 225/75R-16

[elfhearse]

This will probably include a few Class C RV's, its for light commercial tires.

Recall LINK

[locster]

Dammit. I replaced 4 of them under warranty for sidewall cracking a couple months ago. I had to pay prorated price for new ones. Oh well, at least now I can get all the other 3 replaced for free.

Thanks for the info.

[MikeRP]

I have the tires but my fronts are 3611. The rears have the e2 designation exactly the same as chinrv above. So does that mean mine were made the 36th week of 2011, exactly within the recall? Is that the way you guys read it?

[Mich_F]

Handbasket wrote:
The recall even got mentioned on ABC's national news this morning.

Jim, "Buckle up. It makes it harder for the aliens to snatch you from your car."

I saw it mentioned on the news. They had a picture of an M/S 2 tire though.

[Handbasket]

The recall even got mentioned on ABC's national news this morning.

Jim, "Buckle up. It makes it harder for the aliens to snatch you from your car."

[dan-nickie]

tpi wrote:
Wow it looks like I get 7 free tires on my '11. Merry Christmas from Michelin!

MEE TOO :B

[dan-nickie]

Bordercollie wrote:
I had six tires replaced last spring. I checked front and rear outside tires, they are higher than the four digit number range, will check the other two outsiders. May have to take rig in to friendly Allen Tire store to check numbers on inside duals if I can't make them out with a dental mirror.

I think the recall goes to the last day they manufactured them in June 12 for the LTX M/S.
If yours say LTX M/S 2, then they are not in the recall and you donot need to check the date codes.

They look different also:

THESE GET REPLACED:


THESE DO NOT

[tpi]

Wow it looks like I get 7 free tires on my '11. Merry Christmas from Michelin!

[Bordercollie]

I had six tires replaced last spring. I checked front and rear outside tires, they are higher than the four digit number range, will check the other two outsiders. May have to take rig in to friendly Allen Tire store to check numbers on inside duals if I can't make them out with a dental mirror.

[ratfink09]

I could only find the manufacture dates on my front tires (3910} and (3710). Dates were not on the outside rear tires. Do I need to have rears pulled to check dates? What a pain, but would rather have a recall than more risk of a blow out on the road. Of course I was trying to look after a foot of snow that fell last night!

[NWnative]

Checked mine today. Looks like I will be getting 6 new tires. Forgot to check spare so might be 7. Mine are all 0412 dates.

[Charlie_D_]

Bordercollie wrote:
Michelin and other tire companies should have information on file and be able to contact original owners/buyers to notify them directly that their tires are on recall.

One would think that would be the case but some dealers do not register the tires with the manufacturers. In some cases when the tires are registered, the manufacturers will wait for someone to contact a dealer before replacing ones that are defective.

[Bordercollie]

Michelin and other tire companies should have information on file and be able to contact original owners/buyers to notify them directly that their tires are on recall.

[chinrv]

By the way, if you replaced older Michelins with tires in the recall, and kept one of the replaced tires as a spare, which I did, don't forget to check the dates on the spare tire.

[CapriRacer]

chinrv wrote:
.....Puzzling however are the rear tires. They have E2 in a circle, with 2 rows of numbers in the date section: 04602 above 002603......

That's the ECE certification (Economic Commission for Europe) The numbers are NOT dates, but certification document numbers. That certification only needs to appear on one side of the tire - and only on tires where the ECE certification is required. It is not required in the US, but the letters "DOT" are.

[Lumpty]

This is the picture of a sidewall of one of the affected date range tires that I had a rumble with Michelin to replace on my 6/2010 chassis build E450 about a year ago. The cracks were worst at the tread-sidewall joint.



I paid 20% of the replacement cost plus mounting and balancing for the new set. Which I now need to check dates on since June 2012 tires could certainly have still been in the supply stream in six months later for the replacement 6.

!&$^#^%#@!