This incident occurred in canada. I have a canadian address. The province is ontario and the postal code is n8t 2j2. The car was rented from enterprise rent a car. Tire pressure was correctly set. Ambient outside temperature was 30 celcius. Entire sidewall of tire separated. Photo of tire will be available upon request.*ak (tiresize: p185/65r14)
2001 Ford Focus tires complaints
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Original equipment on a 2001, ford focus. P195/60r15 size. Tread on all four tires has started to separate from base of tires. Ford dealer has inspected tires. *ak consumer had all four tires replaced.
I drove the car to work and parked it. It was parkedfor 6 hours. When I left work to start the car it wouldnot start. There was no noise nothing. I waited a few minutes and tried again. Nothing. I then phoned the road side dservice. When they arrived it satarted. The car was taken to quirk ford via the road side dservice. Thaey were unable to find anything wrong with the car. The same condition has occured 4 more times. The second time was the day I took it infor the 6,000 mile check-up. It actually would not start for the technician. The next day I was told they had to program the the ppats keys with the ngs system. That was on may 30,01. On june 10 in our driveway it occurred. It finally started after multiple tires and pushing and fidgeting the key in the ignition. Then on june 13 it happened twice, once in the morning and once in the evening. Again the same ordeal fiddle, push, shove, try not to think you are stranded. I am calling quirk ford tomorrow am and will also report to this to ford main headquarters. Do I have any recourse?
I bought a new focus 01 in october 00. Yesterday, I recognized on the right rear side a significant bubble. Moreover, I checked all other tires, and all three remaining tires had deformations at the threads. I took pictures of all the tires and can provide if required. I showed them to my coworkers, and they did comment that this was unusual for them too. After work, I brought my car to moontownship ford dealer in pittsburgh, they just said except the bubble such formations could occur, they said they were usual indentations. Moreover, I also called in the morning my dealer (parkway east ford). One service man said that they had a similar case with focus right at hand. But I forgot to get the service man's name. The next time I called them, nobody knew of such an occurance, which really disturbed me. The bubble and the so called huge expected "indentations" for such a new car is really unexpected and I hope this information is helpful and enough for you. Hope you can help me with this issue. *ak (tiresize: p185/65r14)( dot number: tire size: p185/65r14 )
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