Once again, I am starting off the blog with an entry on the California Energy Commission and their proposed tire regulations. This time it’s the fact that on Friday August 7, 2026, they announced that this item was on the agenda for the CEC business meeting on Monday Aug 17, 2026, 10:00am Pactific Time. The […]
In the process of researching the European Union’s tire label, I stumbled on the fact that the label covers more than passenger car tires. It also includes what they call “Van tires” and “Truck tires” – they label those C2, and C3, with C1 = passenger car tires. Van tires (C2) is the equivalent of […]
Blog – July 1, 2026 In April, 2026, the California Energy Commission (CEC) announced their latest version of their proposed tire regulations. I cover that in a separate post – here!: California Energy Commission: California’s Proposed Replacement Tire Efficiency Program – April, 2026 – Barry’s Tire Tech. In this blog entry, I’m going to cover […]
Things of interest in the world of tires for the month of May, 2026. ********************* On May 13, 2026, the California Energy Commission announced a public hearing of their new proposed regulations for June 10, 2026. I don’t expect much out of this hearing other than a lot of complaints. ****************************** Yeah, not a lot […]
Jalopnik had an article talking about Michelin putting RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips in passenger car tires and how they weren’t active, but passive – that is they could not transmit, only respond, because they didn’t have batteries. What that meant was that the chips could only tell a reader what they were, not where […]
Another NASCAR incident: At the Pheonix race, there were a lot of tire …… ah …… disablements. Road hazards are a thing and since there were some brake parts failing, it’s inevitable. But there were quite a few tire issues, and given that it was pretty warm, some of them had to be tire structural […]
Yes, I didn’t have a monthly blog for January. Apparently stuff doesn’t happen in January! But February is different….. and at the first NSACAR race of the year – the Clash at Bowman-Gray in Winston-Salem, North Carolina – it was CCCCCooooold!! – and rainy and sleety! During one of the lulls in the action, Fox […]
I am on a NHTSA email list for recalls. Every time there is a new recall, I get a notice. I always read them to see if there is anything interesting. And in December I did get one that is interesting. 82,000 tires are being recalled in various sizes going all the way back to […]
This is a special blog post to cover this issue. Here’s the news article Jury Awards $220 Million Against Michelin After Deadly Ford SUV Tire Blowout – Autoblog First let me say, I offer my sympathies to all the people involved in this. It’s a horrible situation, one I do not want to make worse. […]
December 1, 2025: Tire Business, a publication that reports on tire related stories, reports that the Safe Tread Alliance (STA), a coalition of industry leaders and safety advocates, is advocating replacing the “Penny Test” with the “Quarter Test” for tire replacement – that is a change to 4/32nds as the standard removal level. The Penny Test results […]
Tire failure on a schoolbus leads to the death of an eighth grade student. Revision: The link below is to a more up-to-date news article Page A1 | Post and Courier Columbia E-Paper /end revision The news reported that back in April, 2025, a schoolbus suffered a front tire failure, flipped and killed an 8th […]
This is the first of a series utilizing this new format. This one is about how much can be revealed simply by reading recall documents. 19 October, 2025: Yesterday, I got a notice from NHTSA about a tire recall. The company is not important, but they were recalling several sizes of tires, all from the […]
