MICHELIN TIRES Complaints

I HAVE MICHELIN TIRES ON A 1996 FLEETWOOD MOTOR HOME AND OUT OF 4,000 MILES I HAVE HAD 2 BLOW OUTS. MICHELIN DENIES WARRANTY CLAIMS TIRES WERE RUN LOW ON AIR PRESSURE. THIS IS NOT TRUE. 2 OTHER MOTORHOME OWNERS WITHIN 25 MILES OF THIS AREA ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME PROBLEM. [XXX] HAD 2 BLOW OUTS AND WARRANTY PROBLEM WITH MICHELIN. [XXX] ALSO SAME PROBLEM WITH 3 BLOW OUTS. BOTH ARE FILING A CLAIM WITH YOUR OFFICE. CONVERSATION WITH OTHERS ON THE ROAD MANY I HAVE FOUND AT LEAST 6 OTHERS ON THE ROAD WITH PROBLEMS WITH MICHELIN TIRES ON MOTORHOMES. NO PARTICULAR HOME ALL DIFFERENT MAKES AND MODELS. THE CONCERN IS SAFETY IN WHICH THIS COULD CAUSE A HEAD ON COLLISION OR A LOSS OF CONTROL WITH FATALITIES TO OUR FAMILY. THIS IS ALSO GETTING TO BE EXPENSIVE TO THE POINT OF HAVING TO CALL FOR ROAD SERVICE TO CHG TIRE AND THEN TO PURCHASE A SPARE FOR BACK UP. NOT TO MENTION THE LOST TIMES SITTING BESIDE THE ROAD.I CONTACTED MICHELIN DIRECT AFTER THEIR REPRESENTATIVE FILED HIS REPORT AND THAT'S WHEN THEY ADVISED OF THE LOW AIR PRESSURE PROBLEM. ALL TIRES CHECKED BY DEALER BEFORE TRIP AND ALWAYS SET AT PROPER PRESSURE. DISCUSSION WITH SEVERAL DEALERS 2 ARE MICHELIN DEALERS SUGGEST MICHELIN DOES NOT WANT TO ADMIT OF A PROBLEM. THANK YOU, [XXX].*AK INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR

WHILE I WAS DRIVING MY 1999 OLDSMOBILE BRAVADA FELT LIKE A TIRE HAD GONE FLAT.. AFTER NOTICING THE PROBLEM I WENT TO PULL OVER AND THE ENTIRE SUV PULLED TO THE RIGHT ALMOST HITTING A PARKED BOAT. WHEN I EXITED THE VEHICLE I NOTICED THE PASSANGERS SIDE TIRE WAS SIDEWAYS.. HALF UNDERNEATH THE TRUCK. I CHECKED WITH THE DEALERSHIP WHO I BOUGHT THE TRUCK FROM AND THERE NOT WILLING TO HELP FOR FREE AS I DONT HAVE A WARRANTY.. EVEN THOUGH THIS IS THE SECOND PROBLEM IVE HAD WITH THE VEHICLE SINCE I BOUGHT IT 8 MONTHS PRIOR. I CHECKED WITH A MECHANIC AND THEY SAID THE AXLE WAS BROKEN AND THE BEARINGS AND BALL JOINTS COULD BE BUSTED. LUCKY FOR ME I WASN'T ON THE HIGHWAY WHERE I HAD BEEN 20 MINUITES PRIOR AND HEADING BACK TO.*AK

WHILE DRIVING ABOUT 60 MPH PASSENGER'S SIDE MICHELIN TIRE BLEW OUT. CONSUMER WAS ABLE TO PULL TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, AND CALLED ROAD SERVICE, WHICH CAME AND CHANGED THE TIRE. ALSO, CONSUMER CALLED MICHELIN, WHO TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT HE WAS RIDING ON A TIRE WITH THE PRESSURE TOO LOW. SERVICE MAN TOLD CONSUMER THAT RUNNING THESE TIRES WITH THE PRESSURE TOO LOW CAUSES THE SIDE WALL TO WEAKEN, AND THE STEEL BELTS TO BREAK. *AK

WHILE DRIVING FRONT TIRE TREAD SEPARATED. DEALERSHIPS MECHANIC WAS NOTIFIED, BUT HAD NOT RESOLVED THE PROBLEM. MICHELIN, SIZE P235/70R16. *AK

ON 2/13/04 MY WIFE WHO IS 8 MONTHS PREGNANT WAS GOING HOME AFTER A DOCTORS APPOINTMENT WHEN SHE EXPERIENCED A FLAT TIRE IN HER 2003 MERCEDES C240 ON I 75 GOING SOUTH NEAR ARVIDA PARKWAY EXIT, SHE IMMEDIATELY PULLED OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE RODE AND PROCEDED TO CALL ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE FROM MERCEDES, THEY ADVISED HER NOT TO MOVE THE CAR ANY FURTHER AND THEY WOULD DISPATCH SOMEONE IN ABOUT AN HOUR. BEING A HEAVILY TRAVELED ROAD SHE WAS CONCERNED DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC AND HER BEING RIGHT ON THE SHOULDER, SHE THEN CONTACTED ME AS I WAS ON MY WAY TO WORK LEAVING THE SAME DOCTORS APPT, I PROCEDED TO HEAD TO HER ASSISTRANCE AND ADVISED HER TO PULL FURTHER OFF THE SHOULDER INTO THE GRASS WHICH SHE DID, I ARRIVED TO HER LOCATION APPROXIMATLY 45 MIN LATER AND THERE WAS STILL NO ASSISTANCE THERE, ABOUT 30 MIN AFTER I ARRIVED ONE OF THE I75 ROAD RANGERS ARRIVED AND HELPED CHANGE THE TIRE WHICH WAS A MICHELEN MXV4 PLUS RADIAL XSE4, AFTER THE TIRE WAS REPLACED WE WERE PROCEDING TO THE MERCEDES DEALER IN PEMBROKE PINE TO GET THE TIRE REPLACED WHEN MY WIFE PHONED ME THAT THE CAR WAS NOT RIDING CORRECTLY AND PULLING TO THE RIGHT , BEFORE SHE COULD GET TO THE NEXT EXIT MAYBE A HALF A MILE THE OPPISITE TIRE DISINIGRATED WITH THE WHOLE SIDE OF THE TIRE COMMING OFF, WE AGAIN PULLED OVER AND CALLED MERCEDES AGAIN AND WAS TOLD SINCE WE CANCELED THE FIRST CALL WE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT OVER AN HOUR AND WOULD HAVE TO PAY TO TOW THE CAR SINCE WE HAD NO SPARE WHICH WAS USED EARILER. WE THEN LEFT THE CAR AND PROCEDED TO THE PEMBROKE PINES MERCEDES DEALER WHERE THEY ARRANGED TO TOW THE CAR, WE WENT BACK AND WAITED ANOTHER HOUR AND A HALF FOR THE TOW TRUCK, ONCE THE CAR ARRIVED AT MERCEDES THE SERVICE ADVISOR STATEED MANY POSSIBLE REASONS FOR THE PROBLEM INCLUDING UNDERINFLATION AND POSSIBLY VANDILISM WHICH I REALLY DOUBT.*AK

WHILE DRIVING AT 65 MPH RIGHT REAR TIRE BLEW OUT. THE DRIVER WAS ABLE TO PULL OVER AND CHANGE THE FLAT TIRE. THERE WERE NO OBJECTS IN THE ROAD. MICHELIN, TIRE SIZE 265/45R15

CONSUMER EXPERIENCED RIGHT REAR TIRE BLOW OUT THAT ALSO DAMAGED FIBER GLASS BODY AROUND THE WHEEL. (NAR) *LA *CB

WHILE DRIVING AT 70 MPH, THE FRONT LEFT TIRE BLEW OUT. SEVERAL MONTHS LATER, THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO THE REAR RIGHT INSIDE TIRE. ON BOTH TIRES THE SIDEWALL RUPTURED, CAUSING THE BLOW OUT. *AK *JB

TWO MICHELIN TIRES BLEW OUT WHILE DRIVING AT 60 MPH. CONSUMER HAS PICTURES OF THE TWO BLOWNOUT TIRES. *AK

WHILE DRIVING, VEHICLE SUFFERED A SIDEWALL CUT AND SUDDEN DEFLATION OF THE RIGHT FRONT TIRE. *LA THE CONSUMER STATED THIS WAS THE THIRD TIME THE VEHICLE SUFFERED SIDEWALL DAMAGE, WHICH REQUIRED THE REPLACEMENT OF THE TIRES AND WHEELS. THE CONSUMER BELIEVED THE COMBINATION OF THE LOW PROFILE TIRES AND THE DESIGN OF THE 17 INCH WHEELS ON A LOW SPEED ROLL OF THE WHEEL INTO A POTHOLE CAN CAUSE THE TIRE TO BE PINCHED AND CUT OR DAMAGED BY THE RIM OF THE WHEEL. THE TIRE DEALER AND THE ACURA DEALER STATED THE TIRE FAILURES WERE DUE TO ROAD HAZARDS, HOWEVER THE CONSUMER DISAGREED SINCE THE FAILURE HAPPENED THREE TIMES. *JB