Nine problems related to tire blowout have been reported for the 1998 Mercury Mountaineer. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
My wife was driving back to work at lunch, clear day, unlimited visibility, clear road conditions, when the driver side rear tire sidewall blew out. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The tire was put on the vechicle by the Ford dealership during the firestone recall. A passerby helped my wife change the tire. This is a goodyear wrangler rts, p235/75/15.
The left rear tire blew out while traveling 70 mph on highway 44 near sullivan mo. Even though no one was injuryed it was certainly a scary event. (dot number: w2uu tiresize: p225/70r15).
Original equipment, firestone wilderness tire p235/75r15 size, dot#: w2hl. While driving at highway speeds of 65 mph, left rear tire blewout. Firestone has been notified.
Before the tire blowout I had the tires inspected at the local firestone store and was told I had no tires that fell under the tire recall. When I went to another tire store to have the blowout replaced I was informed that tire was under the recall, the vehilce was inspected again and two more tires were recal tires. I went back to the firestone store were the tires were first inspected and the manager told me I was wrong about the tires being recalled after I told me another tire store had replaced for free under the recall dot number, I was then told I could not prove the tires were on recall to him so legally he did nothing wrong by telling he the tires were safe so now it was my word against his. I called firestone corporation and told them the same story but got no responce from the company eather. (dot number: vdhl tiresize: 235/75r15).
Pe00 020; consumer was traveling about 70mph on highway and heard a popping noise. Vehicle veered off into a bar ditch, and it traveled down bar ditch, and hit guardrail. Then went sideways into the lane of traffic, and then hit enbankment. Incident was caused by a tire blowout.
Was traveling 40mph when right rear tire blew. Replaced it with the spare. Towed truck to driver, he indicated all tires were bad. Can see the steel belts coming through rubber. Contacted firestone & informed no recall on tires.
While driving, the left front tire blew out, consumer then swerved, and sideswiped a semi truck, consumer suffered minor injuries. (firestone wilderness ess at 15 w2hl p235/75r-15).
While driving, the left front tire blew out, consumer then swerved, and sideswiped a semi truck, consumer suffered minor injuries. (firestone wilderness ess at 15 w2hl p235/75r-15).
Right rear firestone wilderness at tire blewout while driving causing the rear end of the vehicle to begin to fishtail, the vehicle was sitting so low that the jack could not be used properly. Nlm.
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