Wheel Rim Problems of Chevrolet Blazer

I was returning from beaufort, SC with my niece's 1 yr and 2 yr old children. My niece is in the military and I was bringing the kids back to stay with my sister, their grandmother, for a month. Outside of atlanta on i75 at 1:00 am I heard a huge bang and the front right of my car flew into the air. I had another niece, who was 3 months pregnant, with me who was riding in the front seat. When the car flew up she flew up and hit the roof of the car. Luckily she had her seat belt on or she might have broken her neck. My niece saw that I was trying to get control of the car and looked out the window to see if any vehicles were near so we could get to the side of the road. No vehicles were around so we made it to the side of the road. My niece walked back down the highway to see if she could find what we had ran over. When an officer came to help change the tire to the spare he showed me it was not a flat tire but that my rim had exploded. The officer changed the tire, followed us to make sure the car was drivable then left us to drive back to champaign, IL. The exploding rim caused the radiator rack, right headlight assembly, rim, tire, to be fixed. Then the car had to be aligned. Luckily my insurance company safeco, paid for everything but my $500 deductible. I still have the rim sitting in my kitchen in case anyone wanted to examine it.

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Driving from south carolina to illinois, the aluminum rim on the front passenger side exploded outside of atlanta, GA on I 75. I had my 1 yr. Old great nephew, 2 yr old great niece and 24 yr old niece who is 4 months pregnant in the car. No one was seriously hurt because we were all wearing seatbelts and the babies were in car seats but extensive damage was done to the vehicle. I have contacted Chevrolet about the rim but have heard nothing back from the company.

Front drivers side rim keeps falling off. Please provide any further information.

We were travelling westbound on route 4 in west rutland, vermont, at approximately 50 mph, when we heard a whistling sound. We thought it was air coming through the top of the window, but in a matter of seconds, the car lost control and the front end of the car "fell down". We originally thought we had a blow out, but after we viewed it with other people who stopped to assist, we discovered the rim was severed in half and the tire was totally out of place. A trucker who stopped to assist us, looked underneath and said it appeared to be a ball joint breakage. He could not believe that would happen with a 1996 vehicle with only 24,000 or so miles on it. We also had a state trooper assist us, and he commented on how lucky we were that we weren't hurt. From the time the car lost control, we had skidded approximately 100 feet to the side of the highway, missing the guardrail by inches. The Blazer was subsequently towed to a repair shop, where it presently awaits repair. The owner of the shop confirmed the ball joint breakage. We have contacted gm and await a call from one of their representatives to inspect the vehicle. When we originally viewed your site for initial information on how to report this, we noticed two other investigations reported within the past 100 days that indicated similar problems with ball joint breakage. Thank you for any assistance you can provide in this matter as we would like to make other chevy Blazer owners aware of this problem. To date, we still can't use the vehicle as we wait for a satisfactory resolution.

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