Tire Tread/belt Problems of Mercury Cougar

Since the car was purchased new in September 2003, the tires have been a constant battle. Now as the car has reached 16,000 miles, one tire has failed completely, while two others are not in great condition. 3 tires have been punctured by small round pebbles found close to my home. One tire the steel belt actually snapped on the freeway, causing minor tread seperation and instant pressure loss. The incident was controllable and traffic was light, resulting in no accident. I have contacted bf goodrich about the problems with tires and they only offer to replace one at a time when they completely fail. Then they will only give 50% off on one new tire. The tires are oem on 2002 Mercury Cougar. Bfgoodrich comp/ta p215/50r16 89v I really feel if one has already had a complete failure at 16,000 miles and the others have there own problems, that a second failure is possible. Maybe with worse results.

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On all four tires pressure was low and tread was separating. Consumer checked right rear tire ,and there was tread seperation as well. Firestone, firehawk gta-02, size205/60r15 on a 1999, Mercury, Cougar. *akall four tires had sidewall separation at the same time,the vehicles rear tire was flat, the front tire was going flat and the passenger side tires were all low, upon closer examination the sidewalls on all 4 tires had a split in the rubber that was perfectly circular and on the flattest tire the rubber had split and was gaping open. The separation is thin and smooth-edged not torn(firestone firehawk gta,p205/55r16). Nlm.

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Vehicle started shaking, the tires were defective, the dealer called it ply-seperation. Two days later another tire had the same problem.

At 14,000 miles, mechanic spotted hairline splits on the sidewalls. Tires have been roatated twice. . City driving. . Cost of 4165. 00 to replace. . Must wait 2 weeks for replacements. . . Mechanic warns against high speed driving. . . Never replaced tires on a car this soon! contacted fs. . No answers!!. (tiresize: p215/50r16)( dot number: tire size: p215/50r16 ).

I have had two (2) side wall blowouts on the lower part of the sidewall near the tread. Both incidents were on city streets and there was no evidence of road hazard of any kind. The first incident through the car out of control and into a curb. No other cars were involved. I kept the last tire, however discarded the first. ( dot number: tire size: p215/50 r1 ).

All four of my tires had the belts showing at 17000 miles. I have put new ones on and they are starting to shake just like the first set that was on the car. I have heard of other complaints on the tires for the Cougar. This is not the only problem. Thank you. ( dot number: tire size: 215/50/16 ).

Two of the firestone firehawk gta 20-p215/50r16 tires experienced tread separation and blowouts, one incident caused loss of control of the vehicle and hit a curb.

While driving at approximately 70 mph tread on firestone tires separated on rear driver's side,causing damage to wheel well and fender/bumper.

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Tread on tires started to separate from tire had to relace all tires sent firestone an e-mail they sent back the truck tire recall info did not take to dealer because they would have put firestones back on ,I saved one tire that was damaged( dot number: w2un tire size: p205/60ris ).

About a month after purchasing the car, I had a flat on the front passenger side tire. We took the car to discount tires who told us that the tire on the back drivers side was separating and had to be replaced. They refused to fix the flat until we replaced the tire due to safety. We bought a replacement tire from discount tires and had it placed on the front drivers side. About two weeks later my son was driving the car on one of our loops, at the posted speedlimit of 70 mph, when the rear passenger side tire shredded and blew out. The car ended up going sideways down the loop in rush hour traffic. He ended up in the middle of freeway in the grass. Thankfully no one was hurt, but the tire did damage to the wheel well and the rear bumper when it came loose. We replaced that tire and the other front tire at the same time. About two to three weeks later I noticed a bad vibration while driving and had the fourth tire replaced. I had asked the technician at discount tires, if I should go to firestone and have them look at the tire, as there must be something wrong with them to come apart like that. I was told I could take it to them, however they would not give me very much, as the tread was low, I might get a little bit of replacement value but not much. Since I have had to replace all four tires, and the tire retailers charged me a disposal fee, and kept the bad tires, I have no way of proving that I had the original firestone tires the car came with. These tires looked fine and appeared to have quite a bit of tread still on them, but all four of them completly separated the tread from tire. It mounted. ( dot number: ).