<![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Great....vitamins, food, pet-food, vehicles, and now tires.

Goodyears next year, if they still make em' here by then.

Rusted

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Cry me a river. I hope this company does goes belly-up and everyone working for them lose out big time.

You had no problems buying crap tires from China a selling them for as much as $200 (which probably only cost the dealer $50...)

Trick

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Just to be clear, the issue here is that the US importer _would_ go bankrupt if they were forced to recall the tires. You can't get blood from a stone - this is a small company, and they just don't have $60MM lying around.

JustAGuy2

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Well it's a lose-lose situation for the FTS. A recall will bankrupt him. If he does not do a recall, lawsuits will bankrupt him. So anyway you looked at it, he screwed.

ARPRINCE

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @mopar_man: I live in Louisiana, near New Orleans. We have a thriving seafood industry. Visiting family often finds you having a grocery bag filled with fresh shrimp forced on you. Driving any high-traffic road outside of the busiest parts of town will find pickup trucks on the side of the road, surrounded by ice chests, selling crawfish, shrimp and crabs caught that morning. In fact, anyone with the right net and the willingness to go to the right body of water can come home with some nice dinner. If I go out to eat, or go to the grocery store, there's a very good chance my seafood will have been frozen and imported from China.

legerdemain

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Same reply as I stated in the post of the reporter detained.

"America sold out to China. More to come.

There is a way to stop this!! Make more products here in the States."

I say make the US company replace tires. Let them go bankrupt and NOT allow them to reopen as any corporation again.

I feel there should be a law that principles of a bankrupt company due to something of this sort should be banned from opening companies again.

And "piercing the corporate veil" is appropriate on this one if they bail.

bnissan97

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> I'm not clear on why this company asked us, the taxpayers, to bail them out. The only motivation I can think of for the NHTSA to agree to that is that they might go out of business before they fulfill their legal obligation to replace all the defective tires. I'm willing to spend tax money on making sure the guy next to me on the freeway doesn't have a random blowout.

I hope the NHTSA has enough balls to order the recall. (Since apparently asking for a voluntary one won't work.)

queen_elvis

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @SaveMeJeebus: Too unsafe for U-Haul? Were they constructed out of Black Plague with weapons grade uranium interior?

Bay State Darren

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> They should have thought about the consequences of making shoddy products before shipping them. Too damn bad they're going to go under. Boo freaking hoo.

Buran

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @mopar_man:
In answer to your question...
Products that can be used safely as they were intended.

Sudonum

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> The scary thing is that China has threatened to dump US currency if we don't shut up and just take the crap thereby destroying our economy. They already own us and we don't even know it yet. :(

Dibbler

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Ahem. Ok, now is it time for Congress to step in and put some r... the brutal regime in Beijing and its use of state owned or state-sponsored enterprises to undercut the US economy?

cyclade

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Responsibility should be up and down the manufacturing food chain. So yes, the importer should be liable. Tough cookies, importing w/o testing.

Trai_Dep

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Hey, I think I know where all those WMDs went! Boy they weren't kidding when they said our ports weren't safe.

All of this crap will be melted down by Al-Qaeda once it's over here, and then there'll really be some mayhem.

loueloui

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @CaptainConsumer:

The LandWind was actually a copy of the 1994-97 Isuzu Rodeo, which itself fared horribly in the IIHS offset crash test (with the same type of structural failure the LandWind exhibited). I think the LandWind did slightly worse, which makes sense, seeing as that's what's expected when you make a cheap copy of a design that was poor to begin with.

segfault

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Jeeez, next thing you guys will be telling me that all the iPods that they manufacture are all a plot to make Americans go deaf so as to not to hear when they invade the U.S.

jabber

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @CaptainConsumer:

Actually, the manufacturer had the Landwind tested with and passed the NCAP, and it's been for sale in Europe since, 2005 I believe. No quality was added, the just greased the wheels that needed greasing. They also had the audacity to call the ADAC test into question and say they were harmful to product.

@ScoobyDoo

This doesn't apply in this situation. The US side was an importer, not manufacturer.

Art Vandelay

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @Dibbler: We fire all the production employees and just keep the office staff around to answer phones

With phone staff outsourced to India, we don't even do that anymore! :P

rmz

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @Dibbler: we already do this but they still undercut our production costs.

ShadeWalker

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> oh yeah, dugg

[digg.com]

Wormfather

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Here's an update to the story from the NYT.

My favorite part:

"This is concocted out of thin air," said Xu Youming, a manager of legal affairs at Zhongce, China's second biggest tire maker. "The structure of a tire can't be decided by an individual. Any change in the structure requires technical assistance. Zhongce couldn't possibly leave out the gum strip on purpose."

Ya, I'm now totally convinced that's what happened.

justbrag

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @ShadeWalker: No, no, no, no, no, the wheels on the Poison Train are poinsonous. Jeesh.

Wormfather

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> I heard a boatload of Chinese Uhaul trucks was turned back for safety reasons. They were loaded up to "Grandma's Attic" with Thomas trains and toothpaste, amongst other things.

SaveMeJeebus

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @Bob: I keep giving the same joke to my boss. My company is in home furnishings and I swear one day an imported desk from china is going to "spontaniously" combust. Due to the gunpowder content in the glue or something.

Wormfather

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> tires are poisonous? who woulda thunk it.

ShadeWalker

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> This is what's wrong with the US. We don't make anything anymore. We fire all the production employees and just keep the office staff around to answer phones and contract all production out to China. It would be nice to see the government give out tax incentives for companies to keep production in the US or at least the Americas. We need some good old-fashioned tariffs. ;)

Dibbler

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> @Bob:

I was thinking that as well...what if this is a sort of Guerrilla war tactic...next thing you know they sell us poisonous water filtration systems to poison the rich and contaminated Twinkies to poison the poor...It's an epidemic in the works! :-p

Toof_75_75

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Let us NOT forget China's foray into autmobiles. They were the first country to make a vehicle (Jiangling Landwind X6 that got a ZERO out of five in a crash test. This vehicle is ILLEGAL in Europe for this reason.

The results of the German ADAC test which is comparable to European NCAP safety standards in areas of passanger cabin protection was ZERO out of 5. It was so bad that even airbags were deemed useless. The passenger cabin completely collapsed on collision.

CaptainConsumer

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Maybe we're at war with China, but we just don't know it yet. With all of the deadly products they've been selling us recently, it makes you wonder.

Bob

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Wait didn't these tires pass the Chinese Health and Safety Ministry's safety tests. Evian on the other hand didn't.

Doc Benway

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> Once again a manufacturer fails to be responsible for their own products.

If you purchase something from China, surely you do some testing on samples every now and then? How the hell can you buy crap and just pass it on without doing the most basic of tests?

Of course, they'll go out of business and avoid all responsibility. Then they'll be back in a year under a new name with a new office somewhere pulling the same tricks.

Yes, the Chinese suck and play nasty tricks, but their US customers are just as guilty.

scoobydoo

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> I didn't know there were tires imported from China. I also didn't know simple things like grain and catfish were imported. What ISN'T imported from that shithole?

mopar_man

]]> <![CDATA[At Least 450,000 Imported Chinese Tires Missing Important Safety Feature]]> It's a fair trade, we give them worthless dollars and they give us worthless, illegal, and poisonous products.

xkaluv

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