Consumer Complaint Detail

CHEVROLET / CAPRICE / 1996

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0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
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No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 000048478 Incident Date: Aug, 13 2000
Consumer's City: SHORELINE Consumer's State: WA
Vehicle Transmission Type: Manufacturers Name: General Motors, LLC
Model Name: CAPRICE Model Year: 1996
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Tires
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Sep, 01 2000 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Jun, 30 1998
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Aqua grip radial uniroyal tubeless, e4,0210175,m+s,pz15175r15100s, steel wires sticking out of tire 2 inches and longer when we got the car to a full stop on a mountain side. we moved here 1 yr. ago, we were told the tire had a "plug" that was all the way inside the tire and had pulled the wires out to the front/ however i can't understand how this would cause the wires to come through the tire all the way around the tire exposing all the wires/ we had one hairy tire, the wires stuck out 2 inches and longer. the steel belting had come apart from the tire on the inside and was flopping around, you could hear it as you rolled the tire around upright on the ground/we purchased two new back tires.( dot number: tire size: pz15175r15 )