Two problems related to tire have been reported for the 1998 Mercury Marquis. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
The first tire failed as the tread partially separated and went flat on a freeway th is was on 12/02/2000 at approximately 32,000 miles. The second tire did not go flat but the tread started to separate on 2/20/2001 at approximately 35,500 miles. (tiresize: p225 60r16)( dot number: tire size: p225 60r16 ).
At first I thought it was just bad luck to loose a 6 month old tire. When I started to see the reports on tv, my failure was so nearly identical that I decided it should be reported. I was on the first day of a vacation trip and had checked everything. The person at the tire store told me my pressure had gone down, and that had caused the failure, but the didn't ring true. Had it been a front tire it could have been catastrophic as I was in a center lane in morning rush hour traffic in st. Louis. Thanx. ( dot number: unk tire size: p225/60r16 ).
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