1994 Mercury Villager: tire blowout or tread separation

Filed Mar 22, 2010 · Tires · OH · crash

1994 mercury villager, right front tire blew. *bf the consumer sideswiped a tractor trailer. Ohio traffic crash report # 10-0501-90 updated 05/03/10

Filed May 9, 2007 · Tires · WI · crash

I own a 1994 mercury villager that was given to us back in 2005 after we lost everything in hurricane katrina. Complained about the firestone seiberling tires that were on this vehicle. Seiberling trailrider radial, lt p205 75 r15/ms. I recently replaced the 2 front seiberlings tires on april 29, 2007 due to the front driver's side having tread separation. I kept the seiberling tires on the front passenger's side as a spare. Still had 2 seiberling tires on the rear of the vehicle. Well, today my wife was taking my daughter to work and the driver's side rear tire had a catastrophic tread separation at highway speed. 55 MPH. She did all she could do to keep the vehicle from flipping off the road. She managed to get the van stopped by crashing into the soft gravel ditch, and no one was injured. The driver's side rear quarter panel was dented and scuffed badly from the tire debris, and the tread that flew off also broke the tail light. The plastic shroud surrounding the gas filler tube inside the rear wheel well broke. I have photos and the tires at home. Please contact me if you have any further questions. Two tires failing in two weeks has me concerned. Now, I have to replace the rear tires as well .

Filed Jul 15, 2002 · Tires · DE

Tread separated from tire, causing some loss of control of vehicle.

Filed Oct 17, 2000 · Tires · OR

General tire p205/75r15 experienced tread separation, causing damage to the rear and left side panels and gas opening lid, 2 other tires that were replaced had identical damage as the one that experienced the blowout.

Filed Sep 7, 2000 · Tires · TX

We've had three major blowouts with firestone tires. During the first one, we were going only about 45 MPH and they replaced it under road hazard warranty. The second incident occurred on the highway at about 75mph and my husband spun out of control onto the grass median. The tire literally exploded and we had to take the pieces back to firestone. We ended up with a dented and scratched rim. When we complained, firestone basically told me to fix it under road hazard because they said 99% of their product defect complaints came back negative and then I'd be out the price of the tire. If they decided there was no defect, they would not reimburse me for the new tire whereas if I had them replace the tire, I wouldn't have to pay anything. The last blowout occurred in missouri on our vacation. We were out of state and going about 70mph and the tread completely come off. We had it replaced at a walmart, so now we have 3 firestone tires and one goodyear tire. We have 5 cars and our other 4 cars do not have firestone tires and we've never had a single problem with any of them at all.( dot number: tire size: 21570r15 )

Filed Oct 29, 1999 · Engine · CA

Five bolts sheared causing exhaust gaskets to blow out and exhaust to leak into engine compartment. Dealer hinted that design flaw the cause and they have done many repairs. Dealer stated that ford is aware of the problem but is not covering repairs after 50,000 miles or 5 years.