Smartire Tires

Smartire is recalling about 576 vehicles over a problem with the tires. Safe vehicle operation may be affected, which may lead to personal injury.

Campaign
04E073000
Manufacturer
SMARTIRE SYSTEMS, INC.
Reported
20 September 2004
Vehicles
576
Built between
Not published
Models
1
Recall type
Equipment
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
4 October 2004
Repaired
Not reported
Unrepaired
Not reported

Does this affect my vehicle?

The manufacturer did not publish a build-date range for this recall, so the model and year list below is the only way to tell whether your vehicle is covered.

  • Smartire 200.0100

What the defect is

Certain smartire aftermarket motorcycle tire pressure monitoring system kits p/n 084.8002. The part number for the sensor itself is 200.0100. The sensor/transmitter may break during motorcycle high speed, allowing the sensor to tumble freely in the tire rim cavity.

What could happen

Safe vehicle operation may be affected, which may lead to personal injury.

What gets fixed

SMARTIRE WILL NOTIFY ITS CUSTOMERS AND REPLACE THE SENSOR FREE OF CHARGE. THE RECALL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN DURING SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2004.

Timeline

  1. Recall reported to NHTSA20 September 2004
  2. Owners notified4 October 2004

Your rights

A safety recall repair is free. Under US federal law the manufacturer must fix a safety defect at no cost to you — no charge for parts, labor or diagnosis — whether or not you are the original owner. A dealer cannot charge you for recall work, and cannot require you to have bought the vehicle from them.

That entitlement is not unlimited. It applies where the vehicle was first sold less than 15 years before the recall was announced — 5 years for tires. Past that a manufacturer may still do the repair free of charge, and many do, but they are no longer obliged to. This recall was reported on 20 September 2004.

To arrange the repair, contact any franchised dealer for the brand. If a dealer refuses the work or tries to charge for it, you can report that to NHTSA at nhtsa.gov/recalls or on 1-888-327-4236.

Manufacturer contact

Owners who take their motorcycles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact smartire customer service at 1-888-982-3001.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
SMARTIRE SYSTEMS, INC.
Recall initiated by
MFR

Everything on this page — the models listed, the build dates and the repair figures — comes from the manufacturer's filing to NHTSA and describes the vehicle line as a whole, not any individual car. Only the manufacturer can confirm whether a specific vehicle is affected, and whether its recall work has already been carried out. Check yours by VIN and read the official notice at nhtsa.gov/recalls.

Additional 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).

Check your own vehicle

This page describes the recall, not any one car. To see which recalls cover a specific vehicle, search by make, model and year.

A VIN lookup here identifies your vehicle and shows recalls issued for that make, model and year. It cannot tell you what is still open on your individual car - only the manufacturer knows that. Search by VIN instead, or check your VIN at nhtsa.gov for whether a recall is still open on your individual car.

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