# Firestone Tires are AWESOME! **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [September 8, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271 "2007-09-08T17:22:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/1 "2007-09-08T17:22:27Z")
So i picked up some Firestone Firehawk SZ50’s last year, used a pair on the rear and replaced them very recently with the other pair. I put them on the car 2 weekends ago, maybe 1800k’s on them thus far… i drive a lot. Last night coming home from toronto at 2:30am coming through Grimsby on the QEW this happens (pictures from this afternoon) tire was located on the rear passenger side, no rubbing. ![http://bings.ca/images/firestones%20rule.jpg](http://bings.ca/images/firestones%20rule.jpg) The wheel was fine though even though i drove 1-2km’s to the next exit for CAA. ![http://bings.ca/images/firestonesrule%201.jpg](http://bings.ca/images/firestonesrule%201.jpg) Mine subframez r pinkzors than you ![http://bings.ca/images/firestones%20rule%202.jpg](http://bings.ca/images/firestones%20rule%202.jpg) just awesome ---
**Author:** ![Multisynclg](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/multisynclg/32/5328_2.png) [@Multisynclg](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Multisynclg)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/2 "2007-09-08T17:25:24Z")
bad deal, what did you end up paying for the tires? i assume you will be writing some letters or making some calls? ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/3 "2007-09-08T18:04:43Z")
btw, these things are Z rated, so technically they should have held up to 200kph+ without issue. ---
**Author:** ![duckJAI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/duckjai/32/5553_2.png) [@duckJAI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/duckJAI)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/4 "2007-09-08T19:16:13Z")
they are firestone, what do you expect? i remember there being a huge recall on firestone tires a while back something like 90% of them blowing up or etc correct me if im wrong, memory is fuzzzzzeh ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/5 "2007-09-08T19:17:20Z")
yeah that is what i thought happened… but i dont think it was all of their tires, just some… this series is from a couple years ago though. It also just occured to me that the tire looks so fucked because i drove for another km on it after it went flat. ---
**Author:** ![GT1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5e925/32.png) [@GT1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GT1)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/6 "2007-09-08T19:30:04Z")
pwned ---
**Author:** ![DJPyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@DJPyro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DJPyro)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/7 "2007-09-08T20:14:41Z")
Yeah that’s why they look like that… Weren’t you running mad stretch? The beads probably just popped off. Regardless, still sucks dude. Goodyear FTW. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/8 "2007-09-08T20:16:39Z")
nah it’s a 245 on an 8.5" wheel ---
**Author:** ![DarkForceJackal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@DarkForceJackal](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DarkForceJackal)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/9 "2007-09-08T20:17:40Z")
They should call themselves Poostone. Or, alternatively, Firepoo. ---
**Author:** ![DJPyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@DJPyro](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DJPyro)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/10 "2007-09-08T20:31:37Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/11 "2007-09-08T20:36:08Z")
i’ve had flats before, and driven as much on them as i did this one, and they did not look like this when i took them off. it was not sudden or violent. i ddint even know the tire looked like this until this morning. i thought i ran over something but there is no evidence of that as far as i could see ---
**Author:** ![jstn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jstn/32/5524_2.png) [@jstn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jstn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/12 "2007-09-08T23:12:32Z")
> [@Where To Buy: motor](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-buy-motor/13987/6): > > btw, these things are Z rated, so technically they should have held up to 200kph+ without issue. maybe you were doing a lot faster than 200kph+ then 😃 just joking thank god nothing else happened to you and the car ---
**Author:** ![tosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58956e/32.png) [@tosh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tosh)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/13 "2007-09-08T23:40:30Z")
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? peace ---
**Author:** ![Keez](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/keez/32/5570_2.png) [@Keez](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Keez)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/14 "2007-09-09T00:13:09Z")
a lil word, buyin cheap tires is like buyin cheap rims. they just blow. ---
**Author:** ![jammin1911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jammin1911](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jammin1911)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 7:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/15 "2007-09-09T07:34:30Z")
> [@FS: Gaging interest, 92 SHO](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-gaging-interest-92-sho/13738/6): > > a lil word, buyin cheap tires is like buyin cheap rims. > they just blow. Thanks fobwall 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DarkForceJackal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@DarkForceJackal](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DarkForceJackal)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/16 "2007-09-09T07:49:20Z")
> [@Am I being scammed??](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/am-i-being-scammed/13989/10): > > 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. 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. Glad nothing bad happened Bing… ---
**Author:** ![jammin1911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jammin1911](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jammin1911)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/17 "2007-09-09T07:52:00Z")
[http://www.firestone-tire-recall.com/](http://www.firestone-tire-recall.com/) visit that site for all the info you could need bing do those pics at the top look familiar?? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jammin1911](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9a28c/32.png) [@jammin1911](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jammin1911)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/18 "2007-09-09T07:58:06Z")
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](http://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! ---
**Author:** ![DarkForceJackal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@DarkForceJackal](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DarkForceJackal)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/19 "2007-09-09T07:59:39Z")
148 reported deaths?? That’s tragic! ☹ 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… :? ---
**Author:** ![Lucidsnow](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lucidsnow/32/5538_2.png) [@Lucidsnow](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Lucidsnow)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 8:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271/20 "2007-09-09T08:33:30Z")
LOL the first pic looks hot… looks like a 195 on a 10inch wide rim jdm tite! $1126 for 4 tires isnt cheap at all…cost more then most ppls rims here [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-tires-are-awesome/109271.md?page=2)