<VV> Another Firestone watchout

George Jones 65crownv8 at gmail.com
Sat May 10 08:05:11 EDT 2008


Grant,

How old were the tires?

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Grant Young <gyoungwolf at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> In case any of you are using Firestone FR680 series tires, get them
> replaced. As if their ATX series tires of a few years ago were not bad
> enough, one of my treads on the other series completely separated this week.
> It peeled off the tire all at once. It did not even cause the tire to go
> flat. Luckily I was in a 45 mph zone with very little traffic and it was on
> a rear tire. I had a least half the tread life remaining on a properly
> inflated tire when this happened. I drove the last 2 miles to home on the
> shoulder with the flashers on, but don't plan on being that lucky. I'm a
> school teacher, so God watches out for me better than usual with all the
> budget cuts we are getting so we can spend more money on prisons.
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