9999 MICHELIN XDE Recall

Campaign:

04T023000 on 12/21/2004

Component:

Tires

Manufactured:

05/22/2004 - 10/23/2004

Affected:

4,000

Defect:

Certain michelin xde commercial truck tires, size 10r22.5 lrg and lrf for use on freightliner school and transit buses. these tires were manfactured between may 23 and october 24, 2004, can experience rapid air loss due to an irregularity of the inner liner.

Consequence:

Rapid air loss can result in loss of vehicle control and a vehicle crash can occur.

Correction:

Michelin will notify its customers and replace the tires free of charge. the recall began december 27, 2004. owners who do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact michelin at 888-622-2306.

Notes:

Also, customers can contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1-888-327-4236).

9999 MICHELIN XDE TSB

Bulletin:

PM-18-01 Euro Va

Component:

190000 tires

Summary:

Proper tire replacement guidelines, particularly as it applies to globalized (?euro?) vans and the differences in tire size designations that may be applied to them (i.e., pmetric, lt-metric, european metric (passenger), or european commer

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