Tire Blowout Problems of Chevrolet C3500

I have had 2 of them fail on my work truck. Both had very low miles. Tires completely blew out.

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Tire blew for no apparant reason at approx 70mph on interstate while towing an empty utility trailer. Tire looks separated and blew into 2 pieces. Lost some control of vehicle almost causing catastrophic crash. Damaged vehicle and trailer. (dot number: 379 tiresize: 245/75r16).

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While driving about 40 mph right front tire had a blowout. Dealer could not repair the tires. Demon, groundhog 2, 361450r165lt.

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Complete tread separation, much like described on Ford explorer incidents. In our case (luckily) I could maintain vehicle control, since the tire did not blow out. I suspect firestone has quality problems on tires other than the explorer size. The incident could have been much more serious if the tire had blown. Note that the while the basic chassis is a Chevrolet (express van), it was modified to a motor home by home & park motorhomes, 100 shirley Ave. , kitchener, ontario, canada n2b 2e1 tel. 519-745-1169. While on a '98 Chevrolet chassis, the motorhome is described as a '99 roadtrek 200. If you can provide information on how to determine "dot" identification, I will be happy to try to get you that info. Note that the failed tire was traded in on a new tire at dorsey tire & trailer, po box 1157, brunswick, GA 31521, tel. 912-261-9947, so may have been discarded. I assume the other 4 tires would have the same dot info. Dorsey's paperwork listed "dot off/brand" as sp872kd120 and "dot on/brand" as v611b1c2700. Perhaps this is the data you need. Also, there were a number of different numbers molded into the outer wall of the tire: e. G. 120/116r & tpc spec 2012ms. I found your format for the "failed component/part information" a tad confusing - suggest 2 sets of boxes: one for description, location etc. And another for crash, fire etc. ( dot number: tire size: lt245/75r1 ).