Firestone requests probe of Explorer

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Bridgestone/Firestone Inc on May 31, 2001 asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to investigate Ford Motor Co's Explorer sport-utility vehicle (SUV) for 'defective design.' In a letter to NHTSA, the tiremaker charged that the Ford Explorer is 50% harder to control than other SUVs when a tire failure happens. Bridgestone/Firestone based its allegation on a report by Dennis Guenther, a mechanical engineering professor at Ohio State University. In comparing the Explorer with the Jeep Cherokee and Chevrolet Blazer, Guenther reported that the Explorer has an oversteer problem.

Public affairs, Light Truck Radial Tires, OE, Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire L.L.C., Original equipment tires, Light truck tires

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Ford analysis puts more blame on Firestone tires

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Ford Motor Co has released an analysis showing that a key layer was smaller in tires prone to tread separation, in its continuing attack against Firestone tires. Ford also claimed that the wedge size varied among Bridgestone/Firestone plants. Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone have been increasingly aggressive in blaming each other's products for accidents that occurred after the tread separated on Firestone tires on Ford Explorers and the sport utility vehicles sometimes rolled over.

Motor vehicles and car bodies, Legal issues & crime, Michigan, Tires and inner tubes, Tires, Brief Article, Ford Motor Co., F, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

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Few SUVs feature anti-rollover system

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An anti-rollover setup system could help prevent deadly accidents from occurring in rollover-prone sport-utility vehicles (SUVs). General Motors has released a version of the system, called Stabilitrak, while Continental Teves' version is called ESP for electronic stability program. Continental Teves has sold 400,000 stability systems worldwide, mostly for cars. In 2000, it expects to sell 1.4 million, with 150,000 in the US.

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