Recalled Tires:
2007 Aug 10 | US importer Foreign Tire Sales Inc. (FTS) of Union, New Jersey, recalled 255,000 defective Chinese-made automobile tires, saying they posed a hazard.
The company said that the steel-belted radial tires, used for light trucks and sport-utility vehicles, did not have gum strips, or had too-small gum strips, which help protect the tread and steel belt from separating from the tire.
The tires were manufactured by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., and sold between early 2004 and mid-2006 as replacement tires under the brand names Westlake, Compass and YKS.
According to reports, the firm was sued after two people died in an accident allegedly caused when a faulty tire split in Pennsylvania. Foreign Tire