Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIRES | |||
| 08/01/2098 | |||
| Since 1973, i've driven a series of 8 cars (about 20-24,000 miles per year) in all kinds of weather, and never hydroplaned until purchasing transsport in 1998. i've hydroplaned 3 times in it, in shallow water, but managed to get control of car and avoid accidents. this car was purchased with the idea of giving it to my daughter as a used car when she turned 16 in 2001. (we had given our son the family caravan when we bought the transsport.) because of the transsport's tendency to hydrplane, we did not feel it was safe to give an inexperienced driver, so we bought a different used car for her instead. my husband was driving the transsport to beach on saturday and hydroplaned on a 4-lane highway at bottom of a hill, spinning, going backwards across median, and ending up in far lane facing oncoming traffic. miraculously, despite labor day weekend traffic, no one hit our car as it crossed 4 lanes of traffic and no one was injured. my sister had problems with my mom's transsport hydroplaning when she drove it on a trip. she was so scared she actually stopped travelling and spent night in hotel before reaching her destination. could this be a design flaw or a problem with steering or what? both cars had good tires (steel-belted radials), not ones that came on vehicle, and we had just had our car inspected the week before my husband left for the beach. have you had other reports, or have tests been done re this? the other minivan we had, the caravan, did not have this problem.*ak | |||