Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIRES | |||
| 05/06/2004 | 1 | 10/31/2001 | |
| Dt: contact has defective tires on her vehicle. the tire manufacturer is continental tire company of north america inc. the contact stated her tire had a bulge. then in june of last year two of her tires had a bulge. she went to the dealer and he duplicated the wear on tires ,and put some brand new tires on her vehicle. the new tires was the same manufacturer. the contact also stated that on april 1st of this year the truck began to shake, and she saw that there was a bulde on her tires the contact was on a busy highway and she could not change the tires at the point so she was going to drive to a safe place to were she could change the tires while driving down the highway. the tire blew and damaged her vehicle. the dealer said that they would not replace the tires because her vehicle was no longer on warrenty. she contacted the tire manufactuer and they suggested to go through her insurance agency which is aaa. her insurance agency sent a mechanical evaultor, and he said the tire was defective, and he said that it had tire thread seperation. the mechanical evalutor stated that 51 other people had filed a complaint about the same manufacturer of these tires. the contact has filed an complaint with ford dealer. as of right now the contact have four defective tires on her vehicle. the tire line is lt235/85r16.*ak | |||
| TIRES - TREAD/BELT | |||
| 03/17/2005 | 48000 | 1 | 08/02/2004 |
| Dt*: the contact stated while the vehicle was parked, it was noticed there were chunks of rubber missing from the tread and the wires were exposed. this occurred on three of the four original tires at 48,000 miles. the tires were changed, but the dealership was unable to determine what caused this problem. updated 10/2/2006 - *nm | |||
| 06/22/2004 | 42000 | 1 | 04/15/2001 |
| While traveling on turnpike at 75 mph left front tire tread separated on my steeltex a/t lt265/75r16 load range e tires causing my vehicle to immediately shift to the left across 2 lanes and almost hitting center median wall, caused $2900.00 damage to my vehicle. *la | |||
| 04/13/2003 | 17400 | 1 | 06/06/2001 |
| Firestone steeltex lt 265/75h16 tires. tread separate for side wall while traveling at 65 mph . front right tire failed. tire had 17,400 miles wear. *nlm | |||