1994 Mercury Villager Tires Problems

“I heard a different noise as I was driving my mini van. I had the tires check to see if there was a knot or something wrong with the tires at geralds. They said the tire was fine. I continued to hear the noise,but nothing was wrong. I was in route to georgetown sc on hwy 17sth. I was traveling aprox. 80 MPH. I heard the noise getting louder. I turned the volume down on my radio because I thought it was the car beside me. It was not. I decreased my speed and I noticed that it was my van. I pulled over to see that it was my tire. It came apart. No wires or steel was showing. …”

“We've had three major blowouts with firestone tires. During the first one, we were going only about 45 MPH and they replaced it under road hazard warranty. The second incident occurred on the highway at about 75mph and my husband spun out of control onto the grass median. The tire literally exploded and we had to take the pieces back to firestone. We ended up with a dented and scratched rim. When we complained, firestone basically told me to fix it under road hazard because they said 99% of their product defect complaints came back negative and then I'd be out the price of the tire. …”

“General tire p205/75r15 experienced tread separation, causing damage to the rear and left side panels and gas opening lid, 2 other tires that were replaced had identical damage as the one that experienced the blowout.”