More and more, customers began to make buying decisions based on quality, even paying more for what they perceived to be higher quality products. Almost as quickly, a high level of quality came to be considered a given for doing business and a crucial component of business survival. Even crash survivors who think they're alive by luck may be alive by quality. And that's not just true on the highways. Considering all that could go wrong, it's no accident that the products and services we use every day are remarkably safe and of generally high quality.
Experts agree the tires on the road today are very safe when used as intended.
Tires are highly engineered products and their producers closely guard the specifics of design and manufacture. But all tires are made to specifications of the Tire and Rim Association, which decides the minimum and maximum amount of air the tire should hold and the size of car or load it should carry. Such product standards are common. They assure consumers of consistent product quality and enable the interchange of like products. You can readily swap your recalled Firestones for another brand because tires within the same size and category classes are all manufactured to the same standards.