[Mosaud1998]

Idk how many of you have these tires. But, I just received this in my email today.

I was just about to buy some continental tires .

How do tire recalls actually work? Do you get free tires or something?

[John 070]

I do believe recalled tires are replaced free. Then the shop that removes them are supposed to puncture the sidewall, but remember the Firestone thing where they all ended up for sale on the secondary market....

Recalls are odd...the Michelins which came with my wife's 2011 GM SUV all dry rotted. Michelin recalled them, but excluded her production date hahahahahahaha As if say a tire produced 2/25/19 gets replaced free, 3/14/19 not, and both are dry rotted on 2/25/21.

btw for the first time ever in 2020, we got a pro-rata warranty on Michelins because they wore to 2/32 in 43k and were warranted to 60k. We got a pretty much spot on credit and we actually got the same tire because Michelin has since increased the tread depth to 10/32, up from 8.5/32....

[Buug959]

It actually says in the notification you posted that "The tires will be inspected to verify that they are affected, and will be replaced as necessary, free of charge."

[longm1985]

Oh crap. I JUST got General G-MAX AS-05s put on in December. And I really, really like them. Hopefully they're not affected as I really don't feel like dragging the car in....

[longm1985]

Phew, mine aren't affected. Here's the list of what is:


https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/202...1T001-2604.pdf

[John 070]

Originally Posted by LemansE90335xi

It actually says in the notification you posted that "The tires will be inspected to verify that they are affected, and will be replaced as necessary, free of charge."

Good point because we took my wife's to the dealer who verified not covered under the recall. My point is dry rot is dry rot--it's there, or it's not there. So because the recall covered only to 4 weeks prior to her production date on the tires, I thought was stupid, but they have to cut costs somehow!

[Buug959]

Originally Posted by John 070

Good point because we took my wife's to the dealer who verified not covered under the recall. My point is dry rot is dry rot--it's there, or it's not there. So because the recall covered only to 4 weeks prior to her production date on the tires, I thought was stupid, but they have to cut costs somehow!

I have Conti's on my car but I'm not sure which model. I just bought the car in July '20 and the tires were installed by the PO. The car is in storage right now so I can't check either. I'll have to wait to see what I have when I pick up the car in May. The recall doesn't start until April anyway so it's no big deal for me.

[lookalikehuuh]

Originally Posted by John 070

I do believe recalled tires are replaced free. Then the shop that removes them are supposed to puncture the sidewall, but remember the Firestone thing where they all ended up for sale on the secondary market....

Recalls are odd...the Michelins which came with my wife's 2011 GM SUV all dry rotted. Michelin recalled them, but excluded her production date hahahahahahaha As if say a tire produced 2/25/19 gets replaced free, 3/14/19 not, and both are dry rotted on 2/25/21.

btw for the first time ever in 2020, we got a pro-rata warranty on Michelins because they wore to 2/32 in 43k and were warranted to 60k. We got a pretty much spot on credit and we actually got the same tire because Michelin has since increased the tread depth to 10/32, up from 8.5/32....

You know what it's funny you say that because I've been a big Michelin guy for a long time. I normally go thru a set of rears Super Sports/PS4s once a year in my daily 330i. When we bought my Wife's CX-5 new within a couple thousand miles she got a flat with sidewall damage and to replace the tire was going to be nearly $350 for the OEM tire. We decided to just change all tires to Michelin Latitude Tours since it was only a couple hundred more and Discount Tire bought our original tires for $50.00 each so price was nearly indistinguishable.

Anyway just 4 years later all the tires are now starting to dry rot which I had not experienced in socal since we have pretty moderate temps. Not only that but we are getting extremely close to the wear indicators at only 45K for a 65K mileage warranty.

I am always religious with tire rotations at the 5K mile mark and have the proof of it. Worst of all, Michelin doesn't consider dry rot a defect and will not warranty them for dry rot, so for now we just have to wait until they get to 3/32 for warranty. I am very disappointed in Michelin tbh especially because my wife and kids ride in that car on a regular basis.