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Goodyear says common processing date reason for taking back eight tires
By Bob Pockrass - Associate Editor
Saturday, February 14, 2009
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – After Ryan Newman, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Mark Martin had problems in the 150-mile qualifiers, Goodyear noticed that portions of their tires in question were all manufactured on the same day.
So Goodyear took back the eight tires that had the same components made on that day as a precautionary measure. Results of any tests won’t be known until next week, said Goodyear general manager of racing tires Stu Grant.
No other tires will be mounted for the Daytona 500 on Sunday that came from that batch, Grant said Saturday morning at Daytona International Speedway.
“It looked like either a tire that blistered and kept blistering or a tire that was severely worn,” Grant said. “It looked a little more severe than some of the other ones. It looked different enough that it’s why we looked at the sequence numbers and see if there was anything common there. We noticed a common processing date for one of our manufacturing components.”
The teams were not doing anything excessive with the setups, Grant said.
“Everything we know is circumstantial right now,” Grant said. “You look at it and you say you have the same common processing date for these tires, so let’s get them back and be sure.”
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Shorty Jr. said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 11:07 AMLooks like they missed a set with Newman seeing how it just blew on him in practice taking his owner out as well.Tough luck Stewart-Haas!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner Boehmert said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 4:02 PMnow that's a great explanation for bad tires...they were made on the same day...if we told our customers that they would find another vendor...
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» Confirm Abuse ReportGeorgia Ross said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 4:16 PMStu Grant needs to REALLY do his job instead of just referring to his little black book of tire-failure excuses!!!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportGeorgia Ross said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 4:16 PMStu Grant needs to REALLY do his job instead of just referring to his little black book of tire-failure excuses!!!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportGeorgia Ross said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 4:16 PMStu Grant needs to REALLY do his job instead of just referring to his little black book of tire-failure excuses!!!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportGeorgia Ross said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 4:16 PMStu Grant needs to REALLY do his job instead of just referring to his little black book of tire-failure excuses!!!!
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Feb 14, 2009 at 4:16 PMStu Grant needs to REALLY do his job instead of just referring to his little black book of tire-failure excuses!!!!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportDonna Lund said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 4:50 PMI sure hope we don't see tire issues tomorrow because that will just suck ..I sure hope Jr. and Smoke and Mark and Ryan and anybody else that had tire issues have a good day ..hopefully these tire issues stop soon this issue seems to be getting very old tire tires ..get it right goodyear ..
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» Confirm Abuse ReportDoc Lehman said:
Feb 14, 2009 at 7:57 PMRemember that when you go to buy tires.
Report as AbuseIf you want to see that 'Deer-in-the Headlights' look from your salesman, ask him to show you the 'Fresh-Date' of the tires. I will NEVER buy Goodyear Tires.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBernadette Motherway said:
Feb 15, 2009 at 12:00 AMA 'fresh date' on tires? Since when?
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