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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...

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Firestone plant in Decatur had production problems, ex-workers say

...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...

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Safety advocates urge wider Firestone tire recall

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...

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State Farm says it warned Firestone about tire problem in '97

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...

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Ford recommended lower tire pressure to prevent rollovers

...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...

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Ford stops production at three plants to shift tires

...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...

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Congressional staff meets with tire officials

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...

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Engineers to study tires for safety defects

...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...

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Nader, at tire recall hearing, says auto industry has changed little

...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...

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Tire issue threatens top-selling Explorer

...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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