heres the firestone report
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sanjay/R...WEB_Secure.PDF
couple snippets from the first page:
Quote:
...there are no well
established criteria for in-service tire failures against which tire components
are designed.
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Quote:
...while
one can and does perform many standard laboratory tests on tires and their
components it is not clear how these are related to in-service failures.
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not looking so good for "this is fact, not theory"