Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIRES | |||
| 05/21/2012 | 87120 | ||
| 2000 chevrolet blazer 4x4, was parked for three weeks in a driveway of a house during vacation trip. upon driving the vehicle upon vacation return it was found that the firestone firehawk 500 235/70r15 right front tire had belt seperation causing major vibration, steering difficulty and required tire replacement. three other firestone firehawk 500 tires on the vehicle do not inidcate any defect upon visual inspection. firestone recommends replacement of all tires due to age, dot 3303. tread remaining on tires is 3/32 or more. | |||
| 11/07/2008 | 109588 | 1 | |
| On 6/4/2008 i purchased four tires from walmart in yuma, az they were douglas tires 205/75r15bwx-trac ii. walmart installed/mounted and balanced the tires. 5 month's and less then 5000 miles later on 11/7/08 my wife called me to say that a tire was flat when i got there to look at the tire i found that the tire had ripped in six different places from the rim to the tread all the way through. i then looked at the other tires to find that they had indented/impressions in the same pattern around the tire as if starting to crack through like the other one did. also i was having difficultly keeping the proper psi level in them my vehicle manufacture recommends 35psi, but for some reason these tires will leak out to 20 psi i had to put air in them every month to keep them at the proper level. i went back to walmart the next day on 11/8/2008 after arguing with them they finally replaced all four tires but they used the same brand, and now a month later i'm starting to see the same pattern of indent's/ impressions in the side wall and these tires to leak air as bad as the last set of douglas tires the replacement tires walmart installed are 205/75r15bwx-t. i believe that this brand name has defective tires and this needs to be looked into. i also have pictures of the tires that ripped if i can i will add them to the report but if not just request them from me and i will send them via email. thank you. *tr | |||
| 55000 | 1 | ||
| The two right and left wheel bearings were replaced.*mr. the lower ball joint and tires had to be replaced. *ts | |||
| 01/25/2002 | 1 | 09/01/1999 | |
| Uniroyal, 235 60r15, original equipment, 31000 miles mounted on a chevrolet, blazer, 2000. right rear tire experienced a blowout while consumer was driving at 55mph, there was some damage to vehicle on the right side. *ak *yh | |||
| 06/01/2000 | |||
| I have tires that show bulges on the sidewall, the supplier states these are were the tire was put together, but there are two to three places on the tire that are now showing these bulges. i tried to contact good year tire but no one would give me the home office address. don't now of any one that has a problem.*ak (dot number: 105s tiresize: p235/75r15) | |||
| 11/18/2000 | 1 | 08/01/2000 | |
| A small nail hole was found in tire but not enough to cause this type of damage to tire.*ak (dot number: m6hl tiresize: 23575r15) | |||
| TIRES - SIDEWALL | |||
| 04/14/2005 | 100000 | 2 | 02/21/2004 |
| Toyo a/t open country tires, p235/70r15. 2 of these tires blew out the entire sidewall while driving in the past 5 months. consumer had them both replaced with a different brand of tires. *ak | |||
| TIRES - TEMPORARY/EMERGENCY SPARE TIRE | |||
| 01/01/2000 | |||
| The spare tire on this vehicle is situated in a spot where it is impossible to see directly behind your vehicle. this blind spot can lead to an accident and not being able to move out of the way for police and medical vehicles. i have contacted gmac and received no reply. i have had several individual sit in the vehicle and all claim that they are unable to see. the tire covers more than 1/2 the rear window.*ak | |||
| 1 | |||
| Vehicle has a dangerous blind spot because of the location of the spare tire. *slc | |||
| TIRES - TREAD/BELT | |||
| 06/03/2005 | |||
| Car started shaking. out side of tire started separation and tread peeling off. | |||
| 11/15/2003 | 1 | ||
| Our tires, uniroyal nail gard tiger paw p235/70r15, were very new, they had excellent tread left. i noticed a wobble developing and w/in a few days the tire exploded. the back left tire tread seperated. our fuel line was torn out, the inner wall of our wheel well was broken up and had to be replaced. we were w/out our vehicle for almost 2 months. the repair shop informed us that our tires had been discontinued so we received a differnt type of uniroyal tire. it has been 2 months since the car was returned to us. i have noticed the wobble again. we are getting new tires tomorrow. our complaints to uniroyal were ignored. they gave no reason for the discontinuation of the tires. i wonder why it is ok to let people continue driving around on tires that could kill them? why doesn't this government website do anything about all these complaints? maybe when someone dies they will. won't that be a nice law suit? *ak | |||
| 07/01/2003 | 37500 | 2 | 01/08/2001 |
| Tread separation on two uniroyal laredo p235-70-15 on a 2000 blazer tires, with-in a 10 day period. apx. 10 days ago front end was shaking, told of tire separation on l/f. tread was separating from tire . bought 2 new tires. today i had tire separation on l/r and again tread was pealing from tire. called uniroyal today and after three phone calls of getting the runaround i was then able to have one covered under warranty the other tire was disposed of by tire shop. tires had about 60-65% tread life left on them. problem was that the tire shops they sent me too said they only sell uniroyal tires and do not warranty them. other problem was by alleged regional representative in my opinion had a no care attitude. *ak | |||
| 1 | 02/12/2001 | ||
| Clunks of the counsumer tires (all four) treads began to come off, the tire manufacturer says the the original equipment tires were street tires, if that is the case the consumer is concerned as to why the vehicle manufacture would put street tires on a 4-wheel drive vehicle, the vehicle is driven on the consumer's 1/2 mile gravel road(uniroyal tires p235/70r15 102s, e4, 0263323 radial tubeless standard load 860kg *1896 lbs) at max infl 240kg pa psi, tread plies, sidewall 2 plies, p1096306, e26280, 31329). nlm | |||