Goodyear Fortera Hl, model year 9999. Filed by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and reported to NHTSA on 23 January 2015. 48,512 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Goodyear) is recalling certain Fortera HL P255/65R18 109S tires manufactured November 30, 2014, to January 10, 2015. The affected tires experienced cracking of the tread during tire endurance testing inspection. Thus, these tires fail to comply with requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 15T002 cover?
- Goodyear Fortera HL.
- What is wrong with them?
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Goodyear) is recalling certain Fortera HL P255/65R18 109S tires manufactured November 30, 2014, to January 10, 2015. The affected tires experienced cracking of the tread during tire endurance testing inspection.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the tires experience tread cracking, it may result in a loss of tire pressure and possible tire failure, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Those tires installed as original equipment on certain 2015 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia are being replaced free of charge by General Motors under safety recall 15V-044. GM will notify the affected vehicle owners.
- 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: “If the tires experience tread cracking, it may result in a loss of tire pressure and possible tire failure, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 15T002 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company |
| System at fault | Tires:Tread/Belt |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 January 2015 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | GOODYEAR FORTERA HL |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the tires experience tread cracking, it may result in a loss of tire pressure and possible tire failure, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
The remedy
Those tires installed as original equipment on certain 2015 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia are being replaced free of charge by General Motors under safety recall 15V-044. GM will notify the affected vehicle owners. Replacement equipment tires are being replaced free of charged by Goodyear. Goodyear will notify all owners for which it has registration information. The recall began February 26, 2014. GM vehicle owners may contact GM at 1-800-521-7300 (Buick), 1-800-222-1020 (Chevrolet), or 1-800-462-8782 (GMC). GM's number for this recall is 15025/15067. Owners of replacement equipment tires may contact Goodyear at 1-800-592-3267.
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.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2015033, recorded 27 January 2015 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 15025, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 15T002, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/15t002/
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.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Goodyear notices we hold
- 26T011: Eagle F1 Supersport tires, sizes 305/30ZR21 and 255/35ZR20
- 26T002: Cooper Discoverer SRX tires, size 255/50R20
- 25T016: Metro Miler G652 tires, size B305/85R22
- 25T006: Cooper Discoverer Stronghold AT tires, size LT275/65R18
- 24T010: Hercules Terra Trac AT X-Venture tires, size LT265/75R16
- 24T003: G622 RSD, size 225/70R19
- 22T010: Kelly Armorsteel KDM I tires, size 11R22
- 22T009: G159 tires, size 275/70R22
All 13 Goodyear campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
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 15T002 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
8146adba - Consequence
8483b0b9 - 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.
The wording we hold for 15T002 · how the whole register is watched
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