41 problems related to tire tread/belt have been reported for the 1999 Ford F-350. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
1 tire expereinced blowout due to tread separation, another tire on a different company vehicle experienced a split on the exact same type of tire, tires are denman size p285/75r16, super swamper.
Peoo 020 ; she was traveling about 65mph on highway and heard a banging noise. Back right rear tire tread separated. Firestone#at steel tex 16inch. Second blowout occurred, left rear tire blewout, tread separated. There were no injuries. The white walls collapsed in ward on both right rear and left rear tires on two occassions.
These firestone steel tex at, p26575r16 were (oe) on this Ford truck. Seperation of tread was noticed while vehicle was sitting. Firestone replaced the tire. The tire was made in canada. Firestone prorated the tire and replaced it as a road hazard claim.
Firestone steel tex a/t tire problems. The consumer experienced three tread separations. The last failure caused major damage to the vehicle. The consumer attempted to get an adjustment but was denied.
The truck is being bought back by Ford; so I don't know the size / make; I'm 99% sure it was firestone tires on the truck. The thread wrapped around the front suspension thereby locking the tire from moving causing almost loss of control of the vehicle (I've raced stock cars 10 years and am fairly used to blowouts, this was far more violent than anything I've ever felt in a race car). The tire wrapped around the front suspension damaging the fender, inner fender well, brake line and power steering lines. The tire could not be gotten off the truck until several hours of work it was wrapped around things so bad. The vehicle is in TN where the tire blew out; I left it there for Ford to decide to buy back or not as it was unsafe to drive after this with the damage, not to mention we didn't trust the other tires on the truck after this. The tire was in the back of the truck (in the bed), however as I said; Ford is buying back the vehicle (although I don't have that in writing yet; only verbal confirmation). The tire looks worse than any of the pictures on cnn today of blowouts, it's worth getting a picture of. The passenger and myself have no injuries nor claims against firestone / Ford for the problem; other than the passengers almost heart attack (we had tractor trailers surrounding us in front, behind and to the right). The truck had numerous other problems with clutch not working, brakes, and engine problems; hence the buy back.
While traveling at 65 mph consumer felt vibration and heard a loud flapping noise. Driver looked out of rearview and noticed the left rear tire had completely separated.