WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced Wednesday a voluntary safety recall of 6.5 million tires for light trucks and sport utility vehicles that have been...
...over-represented" in the complaints and crash claims linked Wednesday to Firestone ATX and Wilderness tires recalled. Bridgestone/Firestone Inc., a subsidiary of the Japan-based Bridgestone Corp., recalled an estimated 6.5 million ATX, ATX II...
DETROIT (AP) -- Safety advocates are urging Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. to broaden the Firestone tire recall, saying the same problems that have been reported with the 15-inch tires affect other...
The United States' largest auto insurer said Tuesday that it began complaining three years ago to Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. about an unusually high accident rate involving its Firestone brand tires and took its concerns to the government...
...being examined in at least 62 deaths. Those deaths, and hundreds of other cases under investigation, led Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. of Nashville, Tenn., to recall 6.5 million tires earlier this month. The recall covers P235/75R15...
...to shift 70,000 tires from new vehicles to be used as replacements in a recall of 6.5 million tires. Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. has recalled P235/75R15 ATX and ATX II tires, and only Wilderness AT tires in the same size made at a...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. said it provided some tires to Ford Motor Co. in Venezuela that did not have a safety layer Ford had requested even though the...
...defects that may have been responsible for 88 deaths and more than 250 injuries. More than three weeks after Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced a voluntary recall of 6.5 million tires, the case has intensified. Venezuelan authorities have...
...in the hallway outside, saying not much has changed in the last 35 years. Nader said he is convinced that Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and Ford Motor Co., which uses the recalled tires as standard equipment on its vehicles, covered up defects...
...popular sport-utility vehicles sold in America and a cash cow for the Ford Motor Co. But in the weeks since Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced a recall of 6.5 million tires -- most of which were used as original equipment on Ford Explorers...
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