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Continental Tire N. America initiates voluntary recalls. (Corporate, Financial News).


Continental Tire
For the German corporation, see Continental AG.


A Continental tire is an upright, external, mounted spare tire behind an automobile's trunk compartment. This term also describes a completely fake design that is stamped into the trunk lid.
 North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Charlotte, NC, is initiating a voluntary safety recall of 595,000 of its Continental P275/60R17 ContiTrac AW and Grabber AW P275/60R17 tires. Consumers will receive free replacements. The tires involved have DOT codes from 109 to 4400. They were furnished as original equipment on over 100,000 2000 model year and certain 2001 model year two-wheel-drive Ford Expedition The Ford Expedition is a full-size SUV built by the Ford Motor Company. Introduced in 1997 it slots between the smaller Ford Explorer, and the now discontinued and larger Ford Excursion. The Expedition offers up to eight passenger seating and a range of V8 engines.  and two-wheel-drive Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicles This page lists sports utility vehicles currently in production (as of April 2007), as well as past models. The list includes crossover SUVs, Mini SUVs, Compact SUVs and other similar vehicles. . Approximately 60,000 of the tires are in the replacement market.
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Publication:Rubber World
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Date:Sep 1, 2002
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