FTS Tires: Markings

Fts is recalling about 49,594 vehicles over a problem with the tires. The purpose of this standard is to provide sufficient information on the tires to permit their proper selection and use.

Campaign
06T014000
Manufacturer
FOREIGN TIRE SALES, INC
Reported
2 August 2006
Vehicles
49,594
Built between
Not published
Models
2
Recall type
Tire
Initiated by
Manufacturer
Owners notified
31 March 2007
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.

  • FTS Danzig
  • FTS Direction

What the defect is

Certain foreign tire sales, inc. (fts), danzig and direction tires, size 10.00-20. These tires do not provide the maximum single use load range which fails to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 119, new pneumatic tires.

What could happen

The purpose of this standard is to provide sufficient information on the tires to permit their proper selection and use.

What gets fixed

FOREIGN TIRE SALES, INC. WILL NOTIFY OWNERS AND REPAIR THE TIRES BY BRANDING THEM WITH THE APPROPRIATE TIRE INFORMATION. THE RECALL BEGAN ON MARCH 31, 2007.

Timeline

  1. Recall reported to NHTSA2 August 2006
  2. Owners notified31 March 2007

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 2 August 2006.

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 may contact foreign tire sales toll-free at 1-800-634-8335.

Official source

Recalling manufacturer
FOREIGN TIRE SALES, INC
Safety standard
FMVSS 119
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

Customers may contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty: 1-800-424-9153); or go to http://www.safercar.gov.

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.

Same component

Same brand