Tire Blowout Problems of Mazda MPV

On June 29,2005 my 5 month old son and I were traveling in our 96' Mazda Mpv north on 291 highway (I was meeting my husband) when my car began to shake. We were traveling approx. 65 mph. As I was getting ready to get over the van jerked hard to the right causing us to veer through both lanes of traffic. I figured my tire had blown and pulled over immediately. It was a hot day approx. 96 degrees outside and due to where we had to pull over I had to get my 5 month out of the car because we were near an entrance ramp and oncoming cars were cutting it close to the van and I didn't want to risk the van getting hit with my son inside. My brother lenny had just called on my cell phone moments before the incident so he could come help us. He wasn't able to arrive for 35-45 minutes. The car it had damage to the passenger side back panel - scratches, dents, tearing in the panel itself, the wheel well cover was completely missing, and the mud gard in the wheel well had been torn and mangeled. It was odd that the tire hadn't blown - it was still aired up but all of the tread was off!!! the tread coming off hit the side of my van and did a lot of damage! when my brother arrived he saw the situation and told me to pull through the median to avoid being hit by oncoming traffic and at that time my baby was looking a bit sweatyand hot. I pulled my car through the median and about 1/4 mile down the raod the a parking lot where my brother changed my tire and my husband (had been contacted through my sister-in-law calling the mcdonalds ) showed up to help too. My brother changed my tire and also found tread jammed between my shocks and the tire. Unfortuneatly I have found that the company cooper CO that makes these tires have had a lot of injuries and crashes (even deaths) with their tires and I happen to have 3 more on my van! they were cooper tires futura 2000 lte p215/65r15 touring tires. They have good tread left on them but I am going to get them all changed.

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Both front tires (inside edge) worn out around half the circumference of the tire. The front tires worn out prematurely with the treads showing separations about an inch long from edges where treads meet the sidewall. The steel belts could be seen from the one-inch separation. Car dealer service manager could not figure out what caused the premature wear. . The vehicle tires have been rotated and balanced according to maintenance schedule. Contacted tire manufacturer and referred to a local dunlop dealer. Tire dealer concluded that tires were not rotated. My brother- in- laws Mpv 2000 with 25k miles experienced the same tire wear (the brand of tires he had was yokohama), but much more severe damage with longer tread separation causing the tires to lose most of the air. My comment is, could this be a car problem (suspension), and not the tire? I am thankful that these tires did not blow up at high speeds. Who knows how many more out there are not being reported. Thank you for taking the time to read about my problem and hope to hear from the NHTSA soon.

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