Consumer was traveling about 70mph on highway and left rear driver's side tire exploded. Tread had separated from tire. Tire was firestone wilderness.
1998 Ford Explorer tires complaints
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Two tires failed internaly, reported to dealer, rotated to rear, further reviewe on my part decided to replace with non-firestone( dot number: )
I was driving southbound in the right lane of ih 35 in southern oklahoma at about the # 3 mile marker. We had left wichita, ks earlier that day and were enroute to our home in carrollton, tx. I had been noticing a shudder in the vehicle not unlike the one I felt prior to learning that another one of the tires having separated on a trip from corpus christi to san antonio earlier in the summer. The firestone dealer in s. A. Advised that you could not tell by looking at the tire on the vehicle that there was a problem. I paid an adjusted price for that tire and just purchased another new wilderness tire on 7/28/2000 both of which were mounted on the front of the vehicle. The two tires on the rear were originals. I heard a loud bang to my left and immediately felt the vehicle lurch into the left lane. I believe that only my police training in driving vehicles at high speeds enabled me to keep control of my vehicle. I was able to steer it to the right shoulder and due to the tire only separating and not losing air pressure was I able to limp into gainesville, tx to glen polk ford. I was told by them that they had never seen a vehicle with so much damage from a tire separation. I had to pay for another adjusted wilderness tire and we were on our way. I have since learned of several lawsuits against ford and firestone for fatal accidents resulting from tire separations of this same tire on explorer's and minivans. As a coincidence, when I went to get an estimate on the damage at a ford dealership in carrollton, one of the repair estimators showed me another explorer with wilderness tires in the auto body shop with extensive damage to the right rear due to a tire separation incident. The driver of that vehicle was lucky because they were towing a trailer with a porsche on it when the tire separated and an accident did not occur. *ak( dot number: v0h11py527 tire size: p235/75r15 )
Tire rubber separated from tire. Vehicle proceeded to roll over injuring my wife and I.*ak( dot number: )
Firestone wilderness tires at standard equipment. While driving 70mph a piece of the front tire separated. Firestone has replaced the tire.
Pe00020, tire tread separation : while driving about 65-70 MPH, tread on the rear passenger's side tire came off, which almost caused the explorer to flip over. Driver was the only passenger in the truck, and was not injured. Tires are firestone, widlerness atx, original equipment. Owner has contacted firestone. Forms were sent to consumer to fill out in order to receive reimbursement for tire. Please provide any further information.
Vehicle hydroplained and right tire blew out after a tread separation, almost lost control of vehicle. *ak firestone wilderness at tires (p23575r16) dot # vr6m07459-5.
While traveling in a ford explorer 1998(VIN #[xxx]) at highway speed of 65-70 MPH firestone wilderness tires (dot#vdhl1py387 / p235/75r15) blewout and tread separated on passenger's rear tire. Driver was able to pull vehicle over without injuries; tire & tread are available for analysis. Please feel free to provide further details. *ak information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
I returned to firestone store and complained about a defective tire when it appeared that the tire was out of round. They claimed that there was nothing wrong with the tires. I recently on two occasions, took SUV to have alignment checked. Was told that alignment was withing specs, that the firestone tires were defective and caussed what they called "radial drift". This causes the car to pull to one side or the other. This in turn would cause overheating and in my opinion cause tread separation at highway speeds.*ak( dot number: 027477 tire size: p235/75r15 )
Detread caused loss of control, vehicle rolled 2-1/2 times. Severe roof crush. Tire remained inflated after crash.*ak( dot number: vdhl1py118 tire size: p235/75r15 )
Tire disintegrated, with tread separating from tire. Tire one year old. *ak( dot number: tire size: p235/t5r15 )
Following the p235/75/r15 there are several other numbers, as follows 105 s m/s tire side wall blew out completely around the circumference of the tire. I had tire replaced at firestone tire and service center, 900 e kennedy blvd, tampa, customer invoice #007059 dated 06/08/2000. Local news coverage said y'all were investigating the tire, thought this incident might help. Tire blew out on I-75 east of naples, fl (alligator alley). We had been driving for three hours from tampa at 70 MPH. Temperature at the time was about 95 degrees. *ak( dot number: none? Tire size: p23575r15 )
Consumer was traveling about 50mph. And heard a loud noise. She pulled over to the side of the road, and discovered that tire was flat and rim had cut into the tire. Driver's side tire was destroyed.
Firestone tire blew out on freeway
I was driving to work in the morning at about 75 miles per hour, when I heard a loud noise and my explorer became very hard to handle on the road. I was able to get to the shoulder of the road safely. I went to inspect the damage and found that the tread of my right front tire had completely peeled off. This created damage to the body of my vehicle. I t was a very frightening accident, but in reading other stories, I feel extremely fortunate.ooc. *ak( dot number: )
Intermittently while driving at 30 MPH and above there is a roaring noise that comes from the truck. Truck was taken to the dealership. Dealer stated that the problem was with the firestone tires. *ak
While driving on I-35 going about 70 MPH the tread on the left rear tire of our explorer separated. This caused the explorer go to into a 540 degree spin. While spinning the explorer stuck a car in the adjacent lane twice, once with the front and once with the back of the explorer. This caused about $6000 of damage of the explorer.*ak( dot number: vdhlipy347 tire size: p23575r151 )
While driving 65 MPH treads on the rear tire on the driver's side came off, causing the driver to lose control which ended in a rollover. Truck was totalled.*ak.et.
Rear tread on the passenger's tire busted while traveling at 35 MPH, causing a loss of control. Consumer ran into a ditch, and the tire was completely destroyed. Dealer has been contacted.
Rims are not round they are oval shaped. Also, premature wear of tires, causing extremely bad vibration.consumer has contacted dealer.
Vehicle hydroplaned and driver lost control due to poor tire(firestone wilderness) traction reslting in an accident and due to poor stability of the design it resulted in vehicle roll over.
Tire sidewall ripped resulting in blow out (firestone / wilderness at) p235/75r 16 105 mp.
Spare tire stolen because there is no lock on spare tire. Yh
The sidewall of the right front tire blew out (firestone wilderness at p 23575r15).
Tires blew out causing vehicle to strike a guard rail and almost turn over. (firestone/owl 16").
The poor performance of firestone tires on water LED to accident on an interstate highway, suspension makes vehicle susceptible to roll over, consumer could not regain control of vehicel once it began to hydroplaned, vehicle veered towards the right until it hit a gaurdrail.
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