This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
On 5-4-07 I noticed driver's side rear tire was flat. My boyfriend filled it with air and I thought nothing further of it. On 5-15-07 I picked him up from work and had a flat on the way out of the parking lot. We filled it with air, but could not make it home before it was totally flat again. Since it was after 11 pm and we were close to home I continued to drive. Once we arrived the tire had a chunk of tread missing, exposing metal barbs, on the outside of the tire. The boy friend changed it the next day so we could take it to discount tire. They informed us that 3 of the 4 tires were bad, the other 2 would end up having tread torn in the same wa, due to mechanical error in manufacturing of the tire. Although they were still under warranty per mileage, we still had to buy 4 new tires.
Rear tire blew out on highway. Found a lump starting in second rear tire. Previously I had replaced the two front tires on 3/24/04 due to lumps or bubbles forming. One of these tires started wearing in an odd way and caused very pronounced vibration. These were the oem tires and at that time had 37,486 miles. Several days prior to the failure I had noticed vibration and skirmyness while driving. I visually inspected the tires and noticed they seemed out of round and odd shaped. I planned to replace themm in a few days. I did not think at the time a failure was imminent. I was wrong as the failure occured two days before I planned to replace them.
While driving 70 mph, the front end began to vibrate at 29K miles. As a result, the driver side tires tread separated. No impact reported. The vibration had become progressively worse. The consumer returned the vehicle to the dealer. The dealer advised the consumer that a tire was defective.
Bridgestone, V381, P185/65R14, dot V67jp300210, original equipment on a 2001, Nissan, Sentra with 24000 miles. Rear passenger tire went flat while parked. Seam was coming apart where tread and sidewall meet. On January 26, 2002 while driving 25-30 mph, front passenger tire had a blowout due to seam separating. No injuries. Bridgestone has replaced the tires.
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- Texas City, TX, USA