Replace Your Brakes and Save Before Winter Through Monroe Brakes(TM) Mail-In Rebate

Replace Your Brakes and Save Before Winter Through Monroe Brakes(TM) Mail-In
Rebate

MONROE, Mich., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tenneco Inc. (NYSE: TEN) has
announced a $20 mail-in rebate offer for consumers who purchase qualifying
Monroe Brakes(TM) premium brake pads this summer and fall. The Monroe Brakes
"Brake for this Offer!" promotion will run August 1 through October 31, 2009.

To qualify for a $20 mail-in rebate, consumers must purchase one set of
qualifying Monroe Ceramics(R) or Monroe Dynamics(R) brake pads from any
participating automotive service location during the promotional period. A
completed redemption form and sales receipt copy must be sent to program
headquarters and postmarked by December 1, 2009.

Available for millions of passenger cars, vans, light trucks and sport utility
vehicles, Monroe Brakes pads combine advanced original equipment-style
friction formulations with a variety of pad design enhancements to help ensure
long life and quiet, powerful braking. Monroe Dynamics semi-metallic pads
feature application-specific formulations for domestic and import models.
Monroe Ceramics ceramic-formula pads combine advanced OE-style friction
formulations to help ensure superior performance and extended durability. All
Monroe Brake pads are engineered to match OE-design slots and chamfers or, as
necessary, aftermarket-enhanced slots and chamfers to help substantially
reduce brake noise.

For more information regarding the Monroe Brakes "Brake for this Offer!"
promotion, mail-in promotion forms, or to locate the dealer nearest you,
please visit www.MonroeBrakes.com or call program headquarters at
1-800-218-1596.

Tenneco is a $5.9 billion manufacturing company with headquarters in Lake
Forest, Illinois and approximately 21,000 employees worldwide. Tenneco is one
of the world's largest designers, manufacturers and marketers of emission
control and ride control products and systems for the automotive original
equipment market and the aftermarket. Tenneco markets its products
principally under the Monroe((R)), Walker((R)), Gillet(TM) and Clevite((R))
Elastomer brand names.

SOURCE Tenneco Inc.

Christine Bowser of Pinnacle Communication Group, Inc., +1-330-688-3515,
chrissy@pinnmedia.com