NTSB recommends fixing ‘broken’ tire recall process

WASHINGTON—The tire registration and recall process is broken, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, and the agency has 11 sweeping recommendations to fix it.

Mandatory point-of-sale tire registration, electronic means of capturing registration information, full tire identification numbers on both sidewalls and easy-to-use safety recall lookup sites are among the major recommendations made by the NTSB in the special investigation report on passenger vehicle tire safety it approved 4-0 at a public meeting Oct. 27.

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