Who makes it?

How a row is worded

Each row names the filing company and then says either “made by” that company or “recall filed by” that company, for that recalled line only. Tireco, Harbor Freight Tools, TBC, and Discount Tire are importers or brand owners. When one of them is the filer, the row says “recall filed by,” including when the report’s manufacturer field repeats their name.

A row says “made by” only when two things are true for that line. The report’s manufacturer field (MFGTXT) names the same company as the filer, and the filer’s name contains the word tire, tyres, tyre, or rubber. A filer whose name contains “sales,” or whose name does not contain those words, stays “recall filed by,” even when the manufacturer field names that same company. In this file, 329 rows say “made by” and 107 rows say “recall filed by.”

A filing company counts as a different name when the brand, ignoring letter case and punctuation, is not the same phrase and is not contained in the company name. Abbreviations are left as written. In this file, ALLIANCE TIRE is not a different name from Alliance Tire Americas, Inc.. ACCC is a different name from AMERICAN CAR CARE CENTERS, INC.. 90 of 112 brand strings have at least one filing company counted as a different name.

“Made by” covers that recalled line and that campaign. It does not cover the rest of the brand, and it does not cover a line that was never recalled. A shared tire-line name in the UTQG ratings is a match of the name string. It is not evidence that one tire is a rebadge of another, and this page does not use those matches. A plant code names the company on the plant record. It has no brand field, so this page does not use plant codes, and it does not use any brand-owner list other than this recall file. Data-quality notes. Plant codes. UTQG brands.

51 recall brand strings match a UTQG brand page after the same capitalization-and-spacing normalization used on those pages. The brand name in the table is the spelling in the recall file. The link opens the UTQG page when the normalized names are the same.

Brands with no tire recall

This file has no tire-recall row for Kirkland or Douglas . A brand with no tire recall in this file cannot be answered from these filings. The UTQG page, when there is one, is only the grades list.