MICHELIN TIRES Complaints

NO HEAT; TEMP GUAGE PROBLEMS. CALLED FORD AND THEY SAID THEY WOULD NOT COVER. WE WERE NEVER NOTIFIED OF RECALL. CAR BOUGHT FROM AN INDIVIDUAL NOT A DEALER. SO MAYBE THAT IS WHY WE NEVER RECEIVED A RECALL. APPARENTLY THIS PROBLEM IS A COMMON ONE.*AK (TIRESIZE: 15)( DOT NUMBER: TIRE SIZE: 15 )

TIRES HAVE DEVELOPED CRACKS IN SIDEWALL. LF TIRE BLEW OUT WHEN LARGE PORTION OF SIDEWALL BECAME DETACHED FROM INNER CORDS. TIRE PRESSURE CHECKED AT 34PSI SHORTLY BEFORE INCIDENT. NO APPARENT DAMAGE TO TIRE FROM ROAD DEBRIS, ETC. WHICH MIGHT EXPLAIN FAI (DOT NUMBER: M3NX83AX50 TIRESIZE: 185/65R15)

ORIGNAL EQUPMENT ON 1999 BUICK PARK AVENUE, 16 INCH WITH 25,000 ON VEHICLE. REAR PASSENGER TIRE SIDEWALL HAD A BLOWOUT WHICH MAY HAVE CAUSED A CRASH. ANOTHER SET OF TIRES ON CADILLAC WHICH WERE NEW REPLACEMENT TIRES, REAR PASSENGER'S TIRE SIDEWALL HAD A BLOWOUT WHICH CAUSED A CRASH. MICHELIN NOT WILLING TO ASSIST OCCUPANT. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK

CONSUMER FOUND LEFT/FRONT AND LEFT/REAR TIRES WERE FLAT ON TWO DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. DEALER CLAIMED THAT CONSUMER'S DRIVING HAD CAUSED TIRES TO GO FLAT. CONSUMER DISAGREED AND STATED THAT HAD FOUND TIRES FLAT INITIALLY WITHOUT A PRIOR WARNING. P215/65R16, 9CTMS, HONDA, ODYSSEY, 2000.*AK

ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT ON 2001, HONDA, ODYESSY, TIRE SIZE P21565R16, DRIVER'S REAR TIRE SHREDDED, AND HAD A BLOWOUT AT 4, 000 MILES. MICHELIN WAS NOT WILLING TO ASSIST CONSUMER. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK

VALVE STEM LEAKS CAUSED THE 3 OF 4 MICHELIN TIRES TO GO FLAT THE DAY AFTER THEY WERE INSTALLED. NLM

NOTICED A BUBBLE BLISTERED ON TOP OF TREAD OF TIRE WHILE VEHICLE WAS PARKED IN DRIVEWAY ON A 1999, ACURA, CL; ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT, TIRE SIZE 205/55VR16, DOT# UNAVAILABLE. MICHELIN CENTER NOTIFIED, AND REFUSED TO LOOK AT TIRE. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS MATTER. *AK

TWO OF THE MICHELIN XH4 AS WS 205 70 R15 TIRES ON THE VEHICLE EXPERIENCED TREAD SEPARATION AND WERE REPLACED, LATER THE TWO OF THE FOUR THAT WERE REPLACED EXPERIENCED SEPARATION ALSO. *MJS

THE MICHELIN (SYMMETRY ALL SEASON TPCSPEC 1109MS P225/60R16 97S) TIRE DISINTEGRATED WHILE DRIVING CAUSING THE LIGHTS ON THE DASHBOARD TO COME ON. *MJS

MICHELIN ALL SEASON TIRE P245/75R16 DOT LT24575R16 EXPERIENCED BLOWOUT WHILE CONSUMER WAS DRIVING 15MPH AROUND A CORNER CLOSE TO A CURB, VEHICLE ONLY HAD 20000 MILES ON IT, AFTER INSPECTION OF THE OTHER TIRES, THEY TOO HAD CHUNKS OF TREAD COMING OFF OF THE TIRES. *SLC