hoopty

I just had 4 new 275/65/20 tires installed yesterday and had a blowout on one of the fronts this morning. Couldn't have had more than 50-60 miles on them. Traveling around 70-75 mph the low pressure light came on and within few seconds I started to feel it pull to the left and before I could get to the shoulder it blew. Wheel is ruined and damage to plastic parts in the wheel well, front air dam, and fender flare. I also have all kinds of warning lights. Can't wait to see what Discount will do about all the damage. I don't think I should have to pay for it.

Blckwlf

Damn dude... No puncture or anything?

1lowranger

I've heard nothing but good about discount tire. Hopefully that will be the case here also. Good luck!

hoopty

Not that I know of. From the time the low pressure indicator until it blew was less than a minute. Never felt anything until right before it blew. Then I could hear it and feel it.

hoopty

I've also heard that too. I know they will cover the tire, because I got the road hazard warranty. I just hope they cover all the collateral damage too. I wouldn't expect them to cover all the damage if they had been on there for a while or were coming to the end of their life, but the tire was brand new!

PawPaw

See if they'll fess up to the amount of air they put in the tires. Some of the shop workers will go by the psi on the door jamb that's for the stock tires. Most LT tires need 40 psi or more for daily driving. Years ago my Dad had a new Firestone tire blow out like that and they refused to pay any repairs that was caused by the tire. First time I see a new BFG come apart like that. Hope you get the problem resolved quickly.

powerranger262

Damn. I would be contacting bfg as well.

Sirikenewtron

Wow! That is nuts!

F150-Own3r

OMG that's horrible!!! I hope they take care of you!

I was looking at getting these tires as my next set but now I'm scared.

Wiggum

Just my thoughts here ... from looking at the picture the OP posted:

It LOOKS to me that the tire got some sort of puncture and started to lose air ... either that, or the seal at the bead was compromised and the tire was leaking air. Either way, the point it, it appears to have been losing air quickly, and when the OP pulled to the left to get off the road, the low tire "buckled" under the edge of the wheel and was being ridden on, and then the wheel/rim edge "cut" through the sidewall and destroyed the tire (aka: causing the "blowout").

I say this because how the tire looks in the pic. You can see where the sidewall was ridden on prior to the separation between the sidewall and where the tread rolls over to the sidewall.

Now, I'm not saying this makes anything the fault of the OP ... just saying it might be bad luck. It just doesn't LOOK to me that the tire just failed out of nowhere unless the reason it started losing air in the first place was a fault of the tire itself - which it may have been. The tire may very well have been a "dud" to begin with.