Tire Bead Problems of Dodge Dakota

The contact has a pickup truck that has original factory goodyear wrangler st tires, p215/75r15. When the vehicle was taken to a local repair shop for maintenance the technician noticed slits up to three inches long on the sidewall above the bead running with the circumference of the tire down to the inner fabric on all four tires. There have been no previous problems with the tires. Because the tires were no longer covered by warranty he replaced all four tires with a different brands. He experienced no further problems after the tire replacement. There were cracks on 3 of the 4 tires. Updated 11/29/05.

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All 4 tires have crack around the bead of tire. Have spent over $500. 00 in repairs, alignments, and tire balancing. Problem I think is from the steering response of the vehicle. This model needs upgraded tires.

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Consumer stated vehicle's driver side tire separated at the bead. Dealer notified. Please provide additional information. . The consumer stated all four tires separated at the bead.

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Owner of 2001 Dodge Dakota p/u, with wrangler st tires, at 10000 miles tires cracked around rim, goodyear store only adjusted the front ones, which he said were cracked. The rear, he called dry rotting, normal wear and tear. The front tires 8000 miles later are cracked. I called westchase tire and auto , in houston, texas and the store manager mentioned that it was strange that this had occured again. I checked the NHTSA site and found the same type of failures were being reported since several years back. I am positive that neither goodyear nor Dodge will fess up to any problems with these tires. I just hope that loss of lives do not occur before action is taken. I will have these tires replaced once more and see how long they will last this time.

Goodyear tires: I purchased a 2002 Dodge Dakota in June, 2002. From day 1, I had trouble steering. After 3 trips to the dealer, I learned today that the goodyear tires were defective. I was told to immediately get new tires. The goodyear dealer was unresponsive to my need. It was obvious that he did not want to deal with defective tires. I went immediately to a michelin (sp) dealer and purchased 4 new tires. The michelin folks could insert a car key fully inside splits that were in my tires. I found news reports of abc investigating goodyear but obviously this is not getting to the public, either through the media or dealers. No incident but only because I took the truck in for an oil change and again complained about difficulty keeping the truck on the road. This complaint is sent in hopes that an investigation will start. I was told that the tires were from a "bad batch". How many tires are in a batch and where are the other tires? please respond and let me know the appropriate actions to take. I was most fortunate because I drive 70 mph on interstate-10 daily. The oil change may have prevented an accident and perhaps my life. Respectfully, patricia hunter.

All four tires original equipment are cracking at the bead. Cracks are several inches long. Goodyear dealer says "heat cracking" and will replace at prorated value. If these tires were recalled per your website, I was never notified. Information is for paper trail.

Manufactor date of the tire is 2400, all tires failing at the outside one quarter away from the bead and it looks like dry rot and the crack is about one eight inch deep.

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Truck only has 22245 miles. All four tires were severally cracked at the bead. Some cracks were over two inches long. All four tires diplayed the same cracks. These tires were rotated every 6,ooo miles and proper air pressure was maintained. The product code on these tires is 773025431. Manufactures description according to the dealer is (p215/75r15 s2 100s wrl st owlrptl) (tiresize: p215/75r15).

During a periodic maintenance check it was found that three of the four tires were separating at the bead.

Tires are seperating around the bead area. Dt.