GOODYEAR EAGLE TIRES Complaints

DRIVING ON HIGHWAY AT 60 MPH AND PASSENGER FRONT TIRE SIDEWALL COMPLETELY SEPARATED FROM TIRE. ORIGINAL TIRES WHEN VEHICLE PURCHASED. ONLY 11,000 MILES ON TIRE; GOODYEAR EAGLE LS 2. *TR

PREMATURE TREAD SEPARATION ON INSIDE OF BOTH FRONT GOODYEAR EAGLE RS-A EMT 255/45R20 TIRES. GOODYEAR PRORATED NEW TIRES 50% OFF. DEFECTIVE TIRES HAD 8/32" REMAINING LIFE. *TR

THE SIDEWALL AND TREAD ARE SEPARATING. THE TIRES ARE GOODYEAR RS-A EMT RUN ON FLAT TIRES THAT CAME STANDARD ON MY 2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE SRT8. THIS WAS DISCOVERED BY A TIRE TECHNICIAN WHILE HAVING MY TIRES ROTATED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT AND VICE VERSA. I WAS TOLD TO REPLACE THE TIRES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. *TR

OEM TIRES HAVE EXTREMELY POOR WET PAVEMENT TRACTION. FIRST INCIDENT OCCURRED LESS THAN 30 DAYS AFTER PURCHASING THE VEHICLE. IT HAD RAINED HEAVILY FOR AN EXTENDED TIME THAT DAY AND CONTINUING MODERATELY INTO THE EVENING. APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION WHERE I INTENDED TO MAKE A TURN ONTO A SIDE STREET, I BEGAN SLOWING TO WHAT I CONSIDERED A SAFE AND PRUDENT SPEED GIVEN THE ROAD CONDITIONS. UPON APPLYING THE BRAKES THE VEHICLE COULD NOT BE STOPPED RESULTING IN SLIDING COMPLETELY STRAIGHT THROUGH THE INTERSECTION, LUCKILY ON A GREEN SIGNAL LIGHT, AND WITH NO OTHER TRAFFIC IN MY PATH. REALIZING I WAS NOT SLOWING SUFFICIENTLY TO NEGOTIATE THE TURN, I DID NOT ATTEMPT TO TURN THE STEERING WHEEL AND CONTINUED DOWN THE SAME STREET TO A SAFE AREA TO TURN AROUND AND RETURN TO THE STREET I INTENDED TO TURN ONTO. SECOND INCIDENT, AGAIN ON WET PAVEMENT, WAS AFTER MAKING A COMPLETE STOP AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT CONTROLLED INTERSECTION. WHEN THE SIGNAL LIGHT CHANGED TO GREEN, I STARTED NEGOTIATING A LEFT TURN. APPROXIMATELY HALF WAY THROUGH THE INTERSECTION, AT A SPEED OF LESS THAN 10 MPH, REAR TIRES LOST TRACTION AND THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE TRIED TO SWAP ENDS. NEEDLESS TO SAY, MY WIFE YELLED AT ME TO STOP DOING WHATEVER IT WAS THAT I DID TO CAUSE SUCH ACTION, TO WHICH I REPLIED. I DID NOT DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN START MOVING FORWARD AT A SLOW PACE AND WAS JUST AS SURPRISED AS SHE WAS BY THE BEHAVIOR OF THE VEHICLE. *TR

I HAVE A NISSAN MAXIMA THAT I HAD TO REPLACE ALL TIRES BECAUSE OF A DEFECT THAT CAME TO ME IN THE MAIL AFTER I BROUGHT MY NEW TIRES AND WAS NOT REIMBURSED. I ALSO HAD PROBLEM WITH FRONT ROTORS THAT THEY KEPT REPLACING NUMEROUS TIMES UNTIL MY WARRANT RAN OUT AND THAN I HAD TO REPLACE THEM WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE ROTORS SO IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.NOW AFTER ALL OF THAT AND MORE I AM NOT ABLE TO DRIVE MY ONLY TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE OUT OF NOWHERE MY TRANSMISSION BLEW UP AFTER MY EXTENDED WARRANTY RAN OUT BECAUSE OF YEARS NOT MILEAGE AND NO MATTER WHERE I WENT I WAS TOLD THAT IF I WOULD REPLACE IT WITH A NEW OR USE TRANSMISSION THAT I WOULD HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AND NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ON IT.I WAS TOLD BY MECHANICS THAT ONLY THE 2004 HAS TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS. *TR

FOLLOWING A REAR END COLLISION, MY 2006 MAZDA3 MILEAGE DROPPED FROM ~24MPG TO ~8MPG, WITH NO TORQUE AT ALL FROM ~20MPH. SIGNIFICANT STEERING TROUBLE, AWFUL TIRE NOISE, AND LOUD KNOCKING WHEN TURNING WERE DISMISSED BY THE LOCAL DEALER AS "WELL WITHIN SPECS". REQUESTED BRAKE CALIPER AND ALIGNMENT CHECK, REFUSED BY THE SAME DEALER; TECH PERFORMED A ROAD TEST, DECLARED THE PROBLEM DUE TO TIRE FEATHERING AND DEMONSTRATED 120MPH TIGHT CURVE AS REMEDY. THREE SETS OF TIRES, ONE SET OF WHEELS [3 OF OEM WERE WARPED], ENTIRE COMPLEMENT OF MOTOR MOUNTS, TWO SETS OF ROTORS LATER, I'M ABOUT TO REPLACE CALIPER MOUNTS AND AXLES. CAR IS UNSAFE, AND DEALERSHIP DISREGARD OF WARRANTY AND TSBS, AND OF BASIC SAFETY STANDARDS WAS OUTRAGEOUS, ESPECIALLY GIVEN (ONGOING) [SPINE INJURY FROM COLLISION WAS NEARLY FATAL] CIRCUMSTANCES. *TR

2007 CHEVY IMPALA ABSOLUTELY SUCKS ON ANY AMOUNT OF SNOW. REAR END FISHTAILS LEFT AND RIGHT AS IF IT HAS A MIND OF IT'S OWN. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS AND UNSAFE!! *TR

WE HAD A FLAT IN OUR DRIVEWAY ON ONE OF A SET OF GOODYEAR GT HR TIRES WHICH WERE PURCHASED IN JUNE 2007. UPON CHANGING THE TIRE AND INSPECTING IT, THE TIRE HAD LARGE CRACKS ALL AROUND THE PERIMETER ON THE INTERIOR SIDE. WE CHECKED THE OTHER TIRES AND SAW SIMILAR CRACKS. WE TOOK IT TO THE GOODYEAR DEALER WHERE THEY WERE PURCHASED AND THE OWNER FOUND IT LEAKING AT ONE OF THESE CRACKS. I COMMENTED THAT I WAS DISMAYED THAT THESE TIRES DRY ROTTED AT ONLY THREE YEARS, TO WHICH HE STATED THAT, "THEY AREN'T DRY ROTTED; THESE ARE STRESS FRACTURES". I ASKED WHY THEY WOULD HAVE THESE FRACTURES AFTER ONLY THREE YEARS AND WHAT CAUSED THEM,AND HE GAVE ME NO ANSWER. THE DEALER SEEMED TO HAVE NO CONCERN THAT THESE TIRES ARE FAILING IN THIS WAY IN ONLY THREE YEARS AND ONLY WANTED ME TO PURCHASE REPLACEMENTS, OFFERING A VERY SMALL DISCOUNT, TO WHICH WE DECLINED. WE WILL BE REPLACING THESE TIRES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND ARE AWARE OF THE TREAD WEAR AND MILES THEY HAVE ON THEM, BUT WE ARE CONCERNED THAT OTHERS ARE DRIVING ON TIRES THAT THEY THINK ARE FINE BECAUSE THEY AREN'T VERY OLD. THEY SHOULDN'T BE CRACKING LIKE THIS AS WE'VE HAD MANY SETS OF TIRES AND HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE. HAD THAT TIRE GONE OUT ANY OTHER PLACE THAN IN MY DRIVE, I AM AFRAID TO THINK WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. WE STILL HAVE TO DRIVE IT TO HAVE NEW TIRES PUT ON, WHICH I GREATLY FEAR. THIS TIRE WAS DATED 0907. *TR

2009 KIA SPECTRA PURCHASE NEW FROM HALLEEN KIA NORTH OLMSTED, OH. TIRES ARE COMPLETELY BALD AT 16,403 MILES. CAR IS 16 MONTHS OLD, DRIVEN LOCALLY. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2008 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE STR8 (NA) EQUIPPED WITH GOODYEAR EAGLE RSA EMT 255/45/R20 TIRES. THE DOT WAS UNAVAILABLE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE SIDEWALL ON THE FRONT TIRES SHREDDED. THE VEHICLE BEGAN TO SWAY AND SHAKE. THE CONTACT TOOK THE VEHICLE TO A TIRE DEALER AND WAS AWAITING NEW TIRES TO BE SENT. THE CURRENT AND FAILURE MILEAGES WERE APPROXIMATELY 23,000.