was driving east on 10 freeway doing 70mph and suddenly one of the rear tire just blow out. almost lost control and ended up in the emerency lane in the middle of the fwy till the CHP came and stopped all the traffic so i could pull to the right hand side get my spare on.....went back to the shop and was told it wasn't covered by manufacture even though i only had the tires for less than 3 months with roughly 2500 miles on it......

i can't believe these trusted falkens can't even last as long as my oem Potenzas......

 

unless you can prove there was an object in the tire that caused it to blow, you are SOL.


tommy

 

i can't prove anything since the side wall was all threaded in pieces. i'll just have to take it as a loss but i hope this doesn't happen to anyone else

 

then something probably did cause the tire to go low in pressure. if the sidewall is all messed up like you describe, then low pressure was the cause of that blow out.


tommy

 

Yeah and plus like you mentioned the Falken's are trusted and for a reason. They're good tires. It probably was a foreign object that the tire hit.

 

yea but i had my tires checked just last week at 38psi each

this is prolly the case

 

What about the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS)? Wouldn't you have known if there was an issue the day you were driving it. I know at 33psi it doesn't flash but i think maybe 31 it would. I know it does at 20psi because it did for me when I had the potenzas. I always have the LCD on the TPMS because I usually drive 100+ mph.

 

^^ my is 04' so no TPS

 

i have a 03 and it has tps. u have a zr?

 

Only pre 05 tracks had the TPMS..

 

Agree. Blow-outs are usually cased by overheating. Overheating is the result of under-inflation.

 

buy road hazard with your tire. Then it will be covered. Blow outs, punctures, etc.

 

yea only the 05' zr's have tps

 

makes total sense...now i gotta lower my tire pressure to about 36psi all around in summer time i guezz

 

yeap i jus got my new replacement tire covered for the 1st 25% of tread life if anything happens