2016 Toyota Prius: tire blowout or tread separation

5 of the 156 complaints about the 2016 Toyota Prius describe tire blowout or tread separation.

owner complaints: 5
of this car's complaints: 3%
typical mileage: 6,000
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 3 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

Tire blowout or tread separation by model year

2024
3
2023
1
2021
1
2020
1
2017
2
2016
5
2015
1
2014
3
2013
5
2012
2
2011
2
2010
6
2008
5
2007
7
2006
5
2005
6
2004
3
2003
7
2002
6
2001
10

What owners say

Filed Jun 11, 2018 · Wheels · 30,000 miles · MS

I had a blow out on the driver rear tire going down the interstate going approximately 70 MPH. The tread completely separated from the sidewall. The tires were toyo nanoenergy a29.

Filed Oct 2, 2017 · Tires · 22,000 miles · CA

At highway speed tire tread separated completely from sidewall on both sides of right rear tire. Vehicle: 2016 toyota prius two eco. Tires - manufacturer: toyo - model: nanoenergy a29 - dot code: n39n size:195/6515 tire - date of manufacture: 1216 (december 2016)

Filed Feb 18, 2017 · Electrical, Tires · 3,875 miles · CA

While driving on hwy 14 at approximately 1100 am, my son's vehicle left rear tire blew off. He summoned assistance to aaa who came and put the spare tire in, he subsequently drove the car to sierra toyota in lancaster ca and chanin yescas service dept mgr assisted with having the car check. I am concerned with this vehicle it is the 2nd incident with have had with the vehicle within a week. Please assist asap.

Filed Aug 20, 2016 · 5,000 miles · IL

We had an unexplained blowout in a tire with less than 5000 miles on it on our prius iv 2016 purchased in may. We saw nothing in the roadway that would have caused this. The tire was ripped. There is a recall on this brand, bridgestone/firestone so was this tire at risk? The tire number is p195/65r89s. The warranty is worthless as they could claim road damage and we can't prove otherwise. But we saw nothing that we hit, and other cars passing us did not have blowouts. So did the tire fail? We think so. We were on an interstate highway when this happened. Very scary and no spare tire, a separate complaint. We could have been killed by a passing truck while waiting for a tow truck for nearly 2 hours.

Filed Aug 18, 2016 · 6,000 miles · IL

We had a tire blowout on an interstate highway and discovered there was no spare tire in our new car. The device to repair the tire didn't work as the tire was ripped. We had to wait 2 hours for a tow truck, with huge trucks passing us at 80 MPH, very close. We were terrified. We still don't know what really happened as we didn't see anything that would have ripped the tire. The car is new, still under warranty. Every car should have a spare tire for emergencies like this. We did not know it didn't have one.