Posted by DownSouth on August 14, 2009 at 05:57:15 from (64.12.116.74):
In Reply to: O/T Tire Failure posted by 37 chief on August 13, 2009 at 21:48:14:
I'm not surprised. After all Firestone and Bridgestone are one in the same. After the big lawsuit over the SUV's rolling over after a tire blowing, they probably just renamed the same tires to Bridgestone. I had 1 Firestone blow (same size as your B'stone) but it wasn't on their list of recall tires so I was out of luck. I replaced 2 at that time with some Good Years. Less than a year later, I had one of the remaining Firestones get a big bubble on it so I pulled it off and took it to them, they said no warranty. I reminded them about the lawsuit that was coming up in a few weeks and told them I planned to attend that trial. Suddenly my tire was under warranty, what a bunch of bull. So I got a new tire and put it under the truck for a spare. That left me 2 Firestones on the rear of my truck when I took of on a 300 mile trip. You guessed it, one of them blew and I felt the vibration for about 30 seconds before it did. Thankfully I had slowed down and was looking for a wide spot to pull over when it let go (I was running 65 on a 2 lane road). It damaged the fender of course. So I put my brand new Firestone spare in it's place and proceed down the road hoping the other older tire (they had about 15K miles on them) didn't let go too. Guess what? Nope, it didn't blow but as I pulled into a small town I heard a scraping noise. I stop to investigate and discover a brace from the damaged fender had fallen down and was rubbing the inside sidewall near the rim, almost to the point of showing the cords (you can see the picture above). I had gone about 30 miles and the new tire was shot. The little town had one tire store and he scrounged up one used tire and mounted it and I made it home, a nervous wreck. Needless to say there will never ever be another Firestone or Bridgestone product on a vehicle that I own.
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