The Miche­lin Pana­ma Corp has ad­vised the Con­sumer Af­fairs Di­vi­sion of the Min­istry of Trade, In­dus­try and In­vest­ment of a pos­si­ble man­u­fac­tur­ing de­fect in a lot of 24 tires sold in T&T. The tires, with ref­er­ence num­ber CAI 23299, were man­u­fac­tured in Bridge­wa­ter, No­va Sco­tia, Cana­da be­tween Jan­u­ary 2010 and June 2012.There is the pos­si­bil­i­ty that such tires could ex­pe­ri­ence tread loss and/or rapid air loss, so Miche­lin has em­barked on a free tire re­place­ment pro­gram­mme for users that have pur­chased such tires.

Cus­tomers can vis­it any Miche­lin Ser­vice Sta­tion in T&T to have their tires re­placed at no cost, in­clu­sive of mount­ing and bal­anc­ing, no mat­ter how worn out they might be.The com­pa­ny said the tire re­place­ment pro­gramme is a safe­ty pre­ven­ta­tive mea­sure as to date there has been no record of any ac­ci­dents.Cus­tomers who may re­quire fur­ther in­for­ma­tion can con­tact the Con­sumer Af­fairs Di­vi­sion toll free hot line at 800-4CPS (4277).