That’s not too bad… Yeah, I’d say they probably zippered then, (ripped parallel to the bead, around the tire), was it loud/violent when it let go? Or did you just notice it was flat?
the recall you are thinking of was for the ford explorer. tires were sold
for 2 or 3 years as OE equipment on all explorers. don’t remeber the size,
this was a while back. i remember it was on 60 Miniutes. tons of lawsuits
followed after that episode.
just curious, how did the tires perform/feel before they decided that
they wanted to kill you?
That was the era of the infamous “Explorer rollovers”…as I recall they later discovered it was inappropriate tire sizing instead of Firestone tires necessarily - as everyone switched to Michelin’s and many had the same thing happening.
I however am still weary of Firestone, and this only adds to my conviction.
another point that you guys might consider that makes this even more messed up is that these tires are literally amoung the most expensive tires out there…
from 1010tires.com, who has great pricing they want $1126 for 4 tires for the reasonably small size of 215/50/17 - thats not even installed!
But I guess there’s one other benefit to tracking your car though, you’re more likely to handle an extreme situation correctly…although i’m guessing the Explorer owners didn’t have much of a chance to recover anything… :?
