Travelling along alcan highway in remote canada. We had tread seperation blowout on the driver side front that damaged the f350 dually. Tire size was 285/75/16 with around 20,000 miles on them. Tire was unusable and replaced with spare. Scrapped the rim as well due to damage when arriving in anchorage alaska. Do not trust these tires for long road trips.
Ford F Super Duty tire blowout problems
37 of the 412 owner complaints about the Ford F Super Duty describe tire blowout or tread separation, most of them for the 1999 model year.
- owner complaints
- 37
- worst model year
- 1999
- typical mileage
- 116,000
Is there a fix? There is 1 recall for this area of the car. See below
By model year
Often reported together
What owners say
Set of 5 uniroyal liberator tires purchased new, lt265-75-16 load range e, 2002 f-250 4x4 (oem size) *these tires are no longer available thru wal-mart where they were purchased and installed. The following occurrences were/are due to defective tires, not any actions committed by wal-mart, the installer/seller. Owner of vehicle is certified mechanic and maintains vehicle & tires to oem specs. At approx. 10,000 miles on tires, we embarked on an interstate highway trip from florida to idaho and back, traveling thru utah, noticed an imbalance at 70mph. Entering idaho the imbalance now occurred at all speeds. Inspection of all tires revealed driver-side rear tire tread had a pronounced bulge a foot long in the center of tread. Spare tire was installed, and vehicle was driven to wal-mart in boise. (manager verified tread/belt separation, tire still at 70psi.) replaced with goodyear wrangler same size. Returning to florida, another imbalance occurred on the interstate in south-dakota. Inspection revealed driver-side front tread bulged and separating. That tire was replaced at wal-mart with a goodyear wrangler. Traveling thru west-memphis, the entire passenger-side rear tire tread detached without warning and demolished the rear quarter panel and tail-light. (tire did not blow-out/lose air pressure, 80 psi) vehicle was driven 3 miles on steel belt to hotel off of interstate. Spare tire was installed and vehicle was driven to wal-mart for 3 goodyear wranglers. All 3 incidents happened on interstate highway. Tires were at correct air-pressure and installed correctly. Tires were not/had not been overloaded. We saved the tread separation tire carcass and the 2 remaining "good" tires.
Ford f250 2001 6.8 v-10 spark plug blow out I just had two of my ten plugs blow out on my 2001 f250 gas 6.8 v-10 with 161k miles. I tuned up the engine at the recommended 100k miles using the specified procedures for this engine. I knew there was a problem with this engine and was extremely careful during the tune-up and plug replacement. I am a certified aircraft mechanic with faa inspection authorization. I used a certified torque wrench to install the plug with the correct torque. There was no error in technique or installation on this spark plug replacement. I just paid $720 to have two spark plug heli-coil inserts done on this engine that blew out the two front left plugs. There is a similar procedure for aircraft aluminum cylinders (called jugs) with stripped spark plug boss defects. An aircraft spark plug has a larger 18mm diameter plug with full depth threads (not the ? Thread of the ford v-10 and other ford engine designs). Aircraft spark plugs are torqued to 35 ft/lbs (vs the 8.9 ft/lbs (107 in/lbs) specified by ford). The maximum RPM of most aircraft engines is 2700 RPM as opposed to 6000+ RPM in the ford engines. This results in a significantly less stress on the plug boss area that it would have in a ford engine. The engineering thought that went into this ford design is totally nonsensical or non-existent. There is no logical reason that they should design this thread depth with ? Depth in an aluminum head instead of the fully available 7/8? Of the spark plug threads that are installed. This is a gross error in design consideration that has resulted in thousands of spark plugs blowing out of ford aluminum heads. How long before my remaining 8 plugs blow? Where will I be when it happens? What will be the resultant damage to the engine, vehicle or persons in the truck? How much will it cost to repair?
Spark plug blowout.
I've had two spark plugs blow out of the engine. Both on driver side. Tearing up their boot and breaking off the coil. The cost to replace the boot and coil is aprox 50+ each time. First time I was driving aprox 35mph when it blew out the second time aprox 45mph. 2000 ford f250 gas engine super duty extend a cab.
General ameritrac tr lt23585r16 tread separation on tires made 3304 year month. I have had 3 failures on the last month...
For 5.4l v8 triton sohc 1999-2002 spark plug blow out from cylinder head. Its not been two years and this is the 3rd time it has happened at a cost to me of $4600. Plug installed in assembly blew out, had repaired, it blew out, had it repaired again by a certified ford dealer. It lasted month & half. Now want to replace cylinder head with same poor design head putting me back where I was 3 plugs ago and ready to spend $4600. More. There is only 4 threads holding any and all plugs. Design flaw. I work in aviation, if our blades started blowing out, they would go through the cabin killing passengers and then plane would crash killing those left. There would be a gov investigation on one incident. Please check to see that thousands of other consumers have had this happen. They will recall for cruise control but not for poor design cylinder heads. What good is a vehicle without an engine?
I have previously complained to this site and the firestone customer relations of my steeltex a/t tire cracking on the side wall. I was told to have them checked at a firestone dealer and I was told the integrity of the tire was not compromised. On july 7, 2004, my family and I were almost killed (minor injury) when the right front firestone steeltex a/t tire exploded, the tread separated from the tire as we were traveling 70 miles an hour on I-85 north. This is a bad product and I believe my suspicions were correct when I previously complained to everyone.
While driving east on interstate 40 in barstow, ca the firestone steeltex radial a/t lt265-75r16 123/1200 load range e m/s tire on the left rear of my ford f-250 super duty had a tread separation. No injuries but damage suffered to the wheel well and undercarriage. Then, on july 19, 2003 we noticed a bulge on the left front tire. Upon examination it appears to be the beginning of another tread separation. We have digital pictures of both tires and are still in possession of the 2nd tire with the bulge.
My rear tire blew out while traveling 55 miles an hour. The tire was properly inflated and had less than 30000 miles of wear. The tire look as if it came unglued.
Related recalls
Tires: bead
- What is wrong
- Vehicle description: light duty pickup trucks and chassis. The tires on these vehicles were damaged during mounting onto the wheels. Only trucks produced at the cuautitlan, mexico plant between september 1, 1996, and july 17, 1997, were affected by the defect.
- Risk
- The bead area of the tire was cut which could result in air loss. Sudden air loss could occur resulting in a loss of vehicle control.
- Remedy
- Due to the age of the vehicles and this recall affecting original equipment tires only, ford will no longer accept claims for this campaign.
Recall number 97V187000 · Recall details
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The model years with the most reports are 1999 (11 complaints), 2000 (8 complaints) and 1997 (5 complaints).
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