These tire are on recall. I've had only two replaced by firestone and I'm waiting for the other two. I'm losing business because I can not afford to take the chance of when will my tires explode. I transport my 1 1/2 year old grandson back & forth to day care. I do not want him to be a statistic.( dot number: vdhl tire size: 235/70/r15 )
1993 Ford Explorer tires complaints
Page 6 of 9: complaints 131 to 160 of 243, newest first, as owners wrote them.
The tires explored in two separate incidences.
Vehicle rolled over due to tire tread wear per investigating officer's opinion( dot number: )
Firestone tire blew out in cold weather, 70 MPH, left rear. Replaced w/non-firestone.*ak( dot number: n.a. Tire size: p235/75r15 )
Tread separated from tire at high rate of speed on a hot day. Tire did not lose air pressure.*ak( dot number: hyvv4fa358 tire size: p225/70r15 )
While driving son to work, had a blowout, and tire looked like spagetti.- consumer managed to get truck to the side of the highway with no injuries.
Pe00 020; consumer was traveling about 65mph on highway and heard a rubble and vibration, left front tire tread separated. Tires were firestone #atx, p23575r15. Consumer contacted the store where he purchased the tire from.*ak anti lock brake system logic does not allow/permit brakes to slow the vehcile after tire faiure. This is seriously dangerous situation.
In a slow turn around a corner, the firestone atx blew out on the exterior side wall.( dot number: unknown tire size: unknown )
I was driving west on hwy 21 from north zulch, texas to bryan, texas I was going approximately 50 miles an hour, building speed to 70. I heard a loud thump and the vehicle began to vibrate . I stopped and the car was taken to a local garage where the mechanic changed the tire and told me the tire was defective. The back quarter panel was damaged and the side molding was torn off.my husband took the tire to firestone where the mechanic looked at the tire and said he did not know what happened but we should replace all the tires on the vechicle. At this time we replaced all the tires with new firestone radial atx ii . The car was repaired in caldwell texas at autoframe body works at a cost of 19, 0215.34.( dot number: tire size: 23575r15 )
Weak causing a shake / unable to balance or align to stop shake at highway speeds
I have wilderness at's, p235/75/15, with approximately 20,000 miles. One was manufactured in decatur, the other three were not manufactured in decatur (dot code 8xhl). All have an intermittant split in the sidewall on both sides about 1/2" down the tread all the way around. I showed them to a firestone dealerer and he agreed to replace all the tires. Have you had other complaints of this nature.( dot number: 8xhl tire size: p135-75-15 )
Left front firestone wilderness at tire belt came loose (broke) while driving causing a loud thumping noise. Nlm
No injury major firestone oem explorer failure( dot number: tire size: 225/65sr15 )
Peoo 020 ; consumer was traveling about 70mph on highway and was going down a hill when he felt vibration, and the left rear tire tread separated. Tire was hitting up against vehicle. There were no injuries. Firestone #atx, p23575 r15. He went to firestone, and the problem was taken care off.
On 8/15/97 we were travelling west on I-40 between winslow, az and flagstaff, az when our rear passenger tread came flying off our tire. Fortunately, my husband was able to safely control the vehicle, reduce our speed and pull off the highway. We examined the damage, there was some small amount of body damage, but the tire, still inflated, had no tread. We removed the tire, replaced it with the spare and made our way slowly to flagstaff where we found a discount tire co. And had the damaged tire replaced, not with firestone tire, and we continued on our way to las vegas the next day. In november we took our vehicle to discount tire to have the other 3 tires replace and were told that they all showed tread separation and we were lucky. Currently, we have one of those firestone tires as a spare as it showed the least to no separation. The dot # I provided is from the spare. I do not have the number off of the actual defective tire. No reports filed since there was, thankfully, no serious accident. I have receipts from both tire purchases and one from ford stating that we didn't have matching tires since we'd replaced the one, so they couldn't do the alignment requested that we thought was why the SUV pulled to the right so drastically. We were told, by discount tire co. Rep., that it could have been due to the separation the other tires were experiencing. We feel very fortunate after learning of the recall. We had never heard of that type of tire separation before and the tires appeared to be in great shape! They weren't all that old nor worn. This was our first trip in this vehicle. It was frighening but we chalked it up to a blowout type of incident and did not report it. The slight body damage has since been taken care of too.( dot number: w2hl1m0083 tire size: p235/75r15 )
While driving the firestone wilderness (235/7515) shredded.
The firestone atx tire experienced tread separation which caused loss of control and resulted in vehicle rollover and injuries to consumers.
Tire shredded. Did not deflate. Tread totally departed.( dot number: tire size: p23575r15 )
Tire blew out at posted highway speed (75mph) on interstate 40 east of gallup, nm. Air pressure set to manufacturer's specs approximately 3000 miles earlier. Subject tire apperently not subject to recall at this time, although I would encourage immediate recall. Note that this incident occured prior to national attention to problems with firestone a/t tires.( dot number: w2hhawa196 tire size: p225/75r )
Incident 1 happened on hwy 5 going north to santa rosa. Tire tread spun off and destroyed the wheel well and side mouldings. Since firestone could not explain why this would happen I bought 4 new tires to replace the all but the spare. The original tires came from canada. The second incident happened in palm spring and again the firestone dealer said he could not explain why but sometimes it just happens. This second detreading occurred after only 27000 miles. I replaced the second tire with wilderness but I am currently using the original spare since I didnot want to buy 4 new tires to match.( dot number: w1hl tire size: 235r15 )
While driving about 65 MPH right reat tire blewout and went flat. Consumer lost control, causing it to flip over 3 times. Consumer was injured, and automobile was totalled.*ak
Pe00 020; consumer was traveling about 60mph on turnpike. Then, vehicle started vibrating, and it was hard to control. Right tire exploded, and the tread separated. Also, tire damaged right rear molding/ mudd flapps and the trimming on the side of vehicle. Tire was firestone #atx, p23575 r15, and #dot vd.
Peoo 020; consumer was traveling about 65mph highway and heard a poppying noise. Left tire tread separated. There was damages to vehicle. Tires were firestone 440. There were no injuries. Consumer bought four new tires prior to first incident. At second incident six days later, left rear tire tread separated. Consumer was concerned about the tires.*ak while traveling at 65 MPH, the tread separated on two tires within six days causing damages to the vehicle. These tires were firestont 440.
The tread separated while driving on I-8 at 70 MPH and damaged the right front and side my explorer. The treadless tire did not deflate and I safely slowed and gradually steered to the shoulder. The other 3 atx's also had a network of cracks on the tread near the sidewall. Increased handling problems prior to the separation.( dot number: vdhl1pb196 tire size: p235 75r15 )
No summary( dot number: vdhlitm056 tire size: p235/75r15 )
No summary( dot number: vdhlitm056 tire size: p235/75r15 )
While traveling on interstate 10, the treads on the driver's side rear tire separated causing the vehicle to go into a 360 degree spin. It hit a turnaround divider, continued around and hit one side rail of the interstate, continued to spin and came to rest with the passenger rear tire atop the curb with the rear of the vehicle against the guard rail.( dot number: unknown tire size: p235/75r15 )
While driving southbound on texas highway 288 between manvel and lake jackson, the tread on the right rear tire separated from the tire and came off. The tread damaged the wheel well, the corner of the rear bumber, and the trim below the rear passenger door. The tire did not lose air and I was able to pull the vehicle onto the shoulder and safely stop. This happened at approximately 6:00 pm and the temperature was about 90 degrees. There were four adults and two children under the age of 2 riding in the vehicle at the time.( dot number: tire size: p235/75r15 )
On two occasions (aug/1998 & may/2000) I experienced a tire failure - total tread separation. Each incident occurred at high speed in extreme heat. My explorer was fully loaded with passengers and luggage (driving from phx arizona to mexico). Fortunately, there were no injuries as the tires held air pressure each time. There is body damage from the tread slamming the body of the car.( dot number: tire size: 235/75-15 )
Had been doing some local residential driving for about 15 minutes, stopped for shopping about 30 minutes then entered I 75. After about 5/10 minutes I noticed the steering was'nt acting as normal, I mention this to my wife, this all lasted 3/5 seconds, then started to lose control, reduced speed got over to the shoulder of the interstate and changed to my spare. Took the damaged tire back to discount tire where I purchased and ask what cause this blowout since I could'nt find anything in the tire. He said probably something in the road( dot number: tire size: p235/75r15 )
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