Api Gladiator, model year 9999. Filed by American Pacific Industries, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 6 June 2014. 761 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says American Pacific Industries, Inc. (API) is recalling certain Gladiator brand truck and trailer tires of various sizes. These tires did not pass quality control and are deemed to be unsafe for road service.
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 14T005 cover?
- Api Gladiator.
- What is wrong with them?
- American Pacific Industries, Inc. (API) is recalling certain Gladiator brand truck and trailer tires of various sizes. These tires did not pass quality control and are deemed to be unsafe for road service.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- The subject tires can fail unexpectedly, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- The defective tires have been captured and quarantined at the border and will be destroyed. Customers may contact API at 1-661-702-0988. Since all of the affected tires have been recovered, an owner notification letter will not be issued.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “The subject tires can fail unexpectedly, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14T005 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | American Pacific Industries, Inc. |
| System at fault | Tires |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 June 2014 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | API GLADIATOR |
What the notice says today
The consequence
The subject tires can fail unexpectedly, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
The defective tires have been captured and quarantined at the border and will be destroyed. Customers may contact API at 1-661-702-0988. Since all of the affected tires have been recovered, an owner notification letter will not be issued.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 455 notices in the record whose component field names tires. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 34 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 14T005, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14t005/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
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We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 14T005 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6b855728 - Consequence
ee0871a1 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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