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Goodyear Fortera Hl, model year 9999. Filed by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and reported to NHTSA on 4 February 2020. 3,721 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Goodyear) is recalling certain Fortera HL tires, size P255/65R18. Due to a manufacturing issue, the tire may experience a belt separation.

Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.

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What owners ask about this recall

Which vehicles does recall 20T002 cover?
Goodyear Fortera HL.
What is wrong with them?
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Goodyear) is recalling certain Fortera HL tires, size P255/65R18. Due to a manufacturing issue, the tire may experience a belt separation.
What can happen if it is not put right?
A belt separation could lead to loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Goodyear will notify owners, and dealers will replace the tires, free of charge. The recall began February 28, 2020. Owners may contact Goodyear customer service at 1-800-592-3267.
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: “A belt separation could lead to loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.”

3,721vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 4 February 2020owners told 28 February 2020today
The defect reached the regulator on 4 February 2020. Owners were written to 24 days later, on 28 February 2020. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign20T002
Filed byGoodyear Tire & Rubber Company
System at faultTires:Tread/Belt
Reported to NHTSA4 February 2020
Model years9999-9999
Vehicles namedGOODYEAR FORTERA HL

What the notice says today

The consequence

A belt separation could lead to loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.

The remedy

Goodyear will notify owners, and dealers will replace the tires, free of charge. The recall began February 28, 2020. Owners may contact Goodyear customer service 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.

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CarsMultiverse, recall 20T002, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/20t002/

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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