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 […]
