Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIRES | |||
| 08/10/2002 | 1 | 04/01/2000 | |
| Person following me indicated other rear tire appears separating also. *ak | |||
| TIRES - TREAD/BELT | |||
| 08/06/2007 | 20500 | 1 | 10/26/1999 |
| Tl*the contact owns a 2000 chevrolet k2500. the vehicle has firestone steeltex radial tires, size lt245/75r16. on august 6, 2007, a 24-inch long strip of tread separated from the rear passenger side tire. the tire blew out on august 8, 2007 and caused two rear windows to shatter and damaged the front passenger side of the vehicle. the contact has pictures of the tire and vehicle. the dot number and speed were unknown. the current and failure mileages were 20,500. updated 02-01-08 *bf updated 02/01/08 *tr the consumer stated the speed was between 5 & 10 mph approaching a stop light. updated 02/01/08 *tr | |||
| 11/04/2003 | 3 | 04/06/2000 | |
| Thread separation on three of four original equipment lt245/75r16 steel tex a/t 10ply tires 2replaced 6-02 1 replaced 11-03 firestone dealer recommended complaining as company fails to do anything for dealer or customer replaced 3 tires on 11-4-03, and mounted new spare on grd to get 4 new tires again consumers need help in getting this corrected immediately.*ak | |||