Continental 4x4 Contact, Continental Purecontact Ls, Continental Terraincontact H/T, model year 9999. Filed by Continental Tire the Americas, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 5 December 2022. 2,937 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Continental Tire the Americas, LLC (Continental Tire) is recalling certain 4x4 Contact, size 255/55R19 111V XL, PureContact LS, size 215/60R16 95V, and TerrainContact H/T, size 255/55R20 107H tires. The tires may have been overcured during manufacturing.
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.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 22T022 cover?
- Continental 4X4 Contact, Continental Purecontact LS, Continental Terraincontact H/T.
- What is wrong with them?
- Continental Tire the Americas, LLC (Continental Tire) is recalling certain 4x4 Contact, size 255/55R19 111V XL, PureContact LS, size 215/60R16 95V, and TerrainContact H/T, size 255/55R20 107H tires. The tires may have been overcured during manufacturing.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Overcured tires may develop a break in the sidewall, resulting in sudden air loss or experience tread separation, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Continental Tire will replace the tires, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed January 12, 2023. Owners may contact Continental Tire's customer service at 1-888-799-2168.
- 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: “Overcured tires may develop a break in the sidewall, resulting in sudden air loss or experience tread separation, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 22T022 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Continental Tire the Americas, LLC |
| System at fault | Tires:Sidewall |
| Reported to NHTSA | 5 December 2022 |
| Model years | 9999-9999 |
| Vehicles named | CONTINENTAL 4X4 CONTACT, CONTINENTAL PURECONTACT LS, CONTINENTAL TERRAINCONTACT H/T |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Overcured tires may develop a break in the sidewall, resulting in sudden air loss or experience tread separation, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Continental Tire will replace the tires, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed January 12, 2023. Owners may contact Continental Tire's customer service at 1-888-799-2168.
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 22T022, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/22t022/
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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- 18T006: Conti Hybrid HS3 tires, size 11R22
- 13T001: ContiMotion motorcycle tires, size 180/60R16 M/C 74H produced from December 19, 2010, through September 24, 2011
All 9 Continental 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 22T022 on 23 August 2026, they were:
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