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Attorney General Issues Warning About Defective Tires
KTUL ^
| August 02, 2007
| Kevin King
Posted on 08/02/2007 3:39:15 PM PDT by monkeycard
Tulsa - It's the middle of the summer travel season. And, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is warning consumers to beware of potentially hazardous tires, likely on thousands of trucks, SUVs and vans.
The tires were sold in the U.S. by Foreign Tire Sales, Inc. and are missing 'gum strips', which prevent tread separation. The tires were sold under the names "Westlake", "Compass" and "YKS" between 2004 and 2006 and were manufactured in China by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Company Ltd.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; tires
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Luckily, I buy US tires.
To: monkeycard
Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber?
Hangzhou Zhongce shame on you,
Hangzhou Twice, shame on me..................
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posted on
08/02/2007 3:42:20 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: monkeycard
Where the lubber meets the load.
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posted on
08/02/2007 3:44:58 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
To: monkeycard
Firestone ? aka Bridgestone.
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posted on
08/02/2007 3:46:54 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: monkeycard
I was going to say something about the top of Old Abe’s head.
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posted on
08/02/2007 3:48:19 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
(I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
To: monkeycard
Fortune Cookie Tire Company don’t make good house pet!
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/02/2007 3:49:44 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
To: Red Badger
"Wow. Chinese technology. Melamine-laced albumin,
lead-painted children's toys, dioxin-flavored ice cream,
human food from dog's you-know-what,
pharmaceuticals containing lead, roadkill, and road paint
unstable blowoutable tires, defective tires missing 'gum strips' to prevent tread separation.
garbage and feces-fed seafood, melamine-dog food,
dioxin- and melamine-filled vitamins!!!!
polyethylene glycol-flavored toothpaste!!!
cardboard-asbestos filled buns!!!!!!
embalming-fluid filled candies and pastries!
Is there ANYTHING the Chinese can't do (or ship to other countries)?"
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posted on
08/02/2007 3:50:44 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: monkeycard
No, thanks. Don’t need any more Chinese gotchas.
To: stephenjohnbanker
99% are safe!.............out out 1,000,000 tires, that would be 10,000 blowouts!...........I guess that’s “safe” by Chinese standards!.......
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posted on
08/02/2007 3:51:40 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No wonder Mexico is so filthy. Everybody who does cleaning jobs is HERE!.......)
To: Westlander
Hope not. Got a set on a new car we bought recently. Fire(Bridge)stone weren’t mentioned in the article, so my fingers are crossed.
To: Red Badger
And out of a billion tires only ten million blowouts. What a bargain!
To: monkeycard
To: Westlander
I don’t see ‘Firestone’ anywhere in the story.
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posted on
08/02/2007 4:35:17 PM PDT
by
airborne
(ATTENTION PA FREEPERS !! https://contribute.gohunter08.com/contribute.asp)
To: MD_Willington_1976
Is that a trick question or did you go blind after the first paragraph?
To: MD_Willington_1976
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posted on
08/02/2007 4:45:25 PM PDT
by
deport
( Cue Spooky Music...)
To: monkeycard
I know there are a lot of people living from paycheck to paycheck. But who the heck would choose to save money by buying no-name tires?
To: JoeSixPack1
No trick, I buy tires from Les Schwab and I want to know which ones are made here, not in some half ass factory in Asia...
To: MD_Willington_1976
Oh, i thought it was a trick question since the names were listed in the second paragraph. But in case you still missed it...
The tires were sold under the names "Westlake", "Compass" and "YKS" between 2004 and 2006 ...
To: Red Badger
Wonder what the average ratio of failure is?
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posted on
08/02/2007 5:06:55 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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