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...year and a half before the company started replacing them on some 30,000 vehicles in the region. It blamed Firestone's misleading diagnosis of the problem for the delay in finding the defect. Firestone says it simply mislabeled some tires as having an extra, protective nylon strip (see box) but built them according to Ford's specifications. On Thursday the Venezuelan consumer-protection agency recommended bringing criminal charges against both companies for a cover-up that the agency says has led to 46 deaths. It also asked Firestone to recall all its Wilderness tires in Latin America. The company...
...when the 55-m.p.h. speed limit was established, U.S. tiremakers were introducing steel-belted radials--now standard on most American cars, including the Ford Explorers. Even in the '70s the fatal consequences of tread separation were well known. And so were a number of remedies, including the use of nylon caps that form a tourniquet around the belts and rubber to hold them together. Nylon caps are widespread in Europe and other parts of the world, but with U.S. speed limits set low, most experts believed they weren't necessary in America...
...when Congress allowed the speed limit to go back up, the stress on tires rose dramatically. Even so, manufacturers insisted that nylon caps produced a more rigid tire with a rougher ride and argued that except for tires subjected to speeds of 110 m.p.h. or more, the synthetic overlays were not needed. Hence most major-brand tires used in the U.S. today lack nylon caps...
...Laboratories, which performs numerous tests for the industry. One popped up in a California trial that ended in June with a jury's awarding $15 million to a man who demonstrated that the tread of his Dunlop tire had collapsed in part because the company did not design a nylon cap into the tire. He is now a quadriplegic; the case is on appeal. According to plaintiffs' lawyers and experts, the STL studies document on video what happens to major-brand-name radials as their inflation is reduced: none of the tires suffer fatal tread separation if they have nylon...
...year and a half before the company started replacing them on some 30,000 vehicles in the region. It blamed Firestone's misleading diagnosis of the problem for the delay in finding the defect. Firestone says it simply mislabeled some tires as having an extra, protective nylon strip (see box) but built them according to Ford's specifications. On Thursday the Venezuelan consumer-protection agency recommended bringing criminal charges against both companies for a cover-up that the agency says has led to 46 deaths. It also asked Firestone to recall all its Wilderness tires in Latin America. The company...