Re: the exploding tire saga

From: William H. Hiatt III (william@hiatt.net)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 11:45:01 EDT


Yah. I hit a big metal chunk in the road last week. Sliced about a 4"
slice in my tire, and it shout the metal piece THROUGH the plastic wheel
well (it was stuck in there when I got off the freeway. I was doing about
90 on the I-5, and I heard a HUGE (Boom Boom) and my friend and I were
like "WTF". I couldn't tell a difference at all driving, then we got off
the frewway, I got out of the car, and I noticed the rear right of my
truck was extremely low. So I walked over there and to my dismay, herad a
huge hissing sound. I was so mad. $147 for a new tire moutned and
balanced. Oh well, atleast I'm running two new tires in the back.

William

P.S. How well will the Durango R/T Tires/Rims fit on a 2000 Dakota Sport
w/ the tire handling package?
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, mark janke wrote:

> Well DC called me today about my letter on my Goodyear
> Eagle LS tire exploding.
>
> She said, "our techs here are not aware of tires
> exploding being an issue on the Dakota and unless our
> dealership could examine the tire, and cause could be
> directed to DC or the tire company and wasn't
> becasue of negligence on my part they are unable to do
> anything at this time."
>
> She said she would forward the mail on to the
> appropriate department and suggested taking it up with
> Goodyear.
>
> I can understand a corporation wanting to protect
> itself, guess I can stop getting rich by buying new
> trucks and then later demanding a free set of tires
> from them :)
>
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