Kelled said:
Has anyone ever heard of there being any problems with Firestone's performance tires, a la tread separation? I never have.
4 years ago I paid about $500 for 4 Firestones for my 280ZX (and if I can find the receipt somewhere, I will tell you what type and size, too, but they were not stock rims). Two months after I got them, I sold the car to my brother when I moved back to New York from Virginia.
A week later the tread separated on him as he was taking an exit ramp - he wound up going over the high side of the ramp, but the car stayed upright. But since he was ok and not the original owner, Firestone would not pay for the repairs; the local dealer wound up paying, though, because we have a few lawyers in the family and we made it clear that it would cost them more to defend themselves than to just fix the car.
Also - those tires were not in the kind or size that were recalled, but neither were the ones that we use here at work on our Ford Trucks, and we had 3 tread separations in a 10 month period last year. I wound up pulling all the Firestones off our 4 Ford worktrucks.
Firestone said that their problems were only at that Youngstown plant - don't believe them! My local dealer told me that they are still having new tires come back with the separations, and they are supposed to have closed that factory.
Kathy
