Interpretation ID: aiam1453
Tire Department
Trellaborgs Gummifabriks Aktiebolag
S-23101 Trelleborg-Sweden;
Dear Mr. Sundelin: This responds to your February 20, 1974 request for a determination o whether two of your motorcycle treadwear indicator designs conform to the S6.4 requirements of Standard 119 *New pneumatic tires for vehicles other than passenger cars.*; The treadwear indicator requirements have been amended by deleting al of the portio of S6.4 that begins 'The indicators shall, as a minimum'. this means that the manufacturer determines for himself the location and design of the six treadwear indicators requires (three in the case of motorcycle tires). He must assure himself that when the indicator is reached, the tread at that point o the tire is worn to a depth of on-sixteenth of an inch (or one-thirty-second of an inch in the case of motorcycle tires).; Yours truly, Richard B. Dyson, Assistant Chief Counsel