Tire side wall cracks?

I did-this is what it said-
"Michelin is very persnickety,” he said. “At the Chinese plant you couldn’t tell if you were in China or in South Carolina. The plant has the same controls, the same machines and the same uniforms on the
workers.”
And this paragraph-
“We have same global quality standards around the world,” said Keith Price, a spokesman for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. “The standards are the same whether we make it in Oklahoma, Germany, Brazil, Indonesia, or China, the product standards are the same.”


Seems to reinforce my post. We are not talking Chinese branded tires, however even some of those are good tires that are run on big rigs, such as Double Coin.

Yep they did say that; but you left off the last part (for some reason :S) and they also said this:

Nevertheless, there have been some safety blips in Chinese-made tires.

Last year the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched an investigation into defective tire valve stems produced by a subsidiary of Shanghai Baolong Automotive Corp. The company sold 300 million valve stems which were susceptible to cracking, potentially causing the tire to deflate, a problem which led to one fatality, according to NHTSA.

Two fatalities were attributed to defective tires made by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. because of tread separation. The tire importer issued a recall for the 450,000 tires it had sold.

Couple that with China's stellar baby food safety record and pet food safety record and one can be very suspicious of how their tire record is going to be.

After all, melamine is cheap, they put it in their baby food so why not their tire formula?

I can see the manufacture add now: As the camera pans back it shows a baby sitting in a tire and they say: "Melamine; good enough for our babies, good enough for our tires." :B LOL

Hey wait a second, I see where Michelin is going!! They will just reuse this commercial!