0 Injured
0 Death
No Fire
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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 006068636 | Incident Date: Feb, 25 2006 |
| Consumer's City: ZACHARY | Consumer's State: LA |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Continental Tire the Americas, LLC |
| Model Name: GENERAL AMERI | Model Year: 9999 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Tires:tread/belt |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 5LMEU27A1YL | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Jun, 18 2006 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Jul, 26 2002 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 8 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: On 2/26/06 at 12:40pm, my 2000 lincoln navigator rear began to vibrate badly and then a loud noise occurred. the right rear tire tread had separated & damaged my rear bumper wheel well and bracket. the type of tires were continental general aw p275/60r17. the dot number for the bad tire was adto 44t 3802. i immediately went to a local baton rouge tire dealer (tire kingdom) with the tire and the manager stated that the tire had a defect and he could authorize installing a new continental replacement tire. the tire still had very good tread life remaining. i asked him about the other tires and he was not authorized to replace all four. since i was not comfortable with leaving the other tires on my vehicle and he did not have a like replacement, i replaced all four tires and filed a claim with continental (claim #6059007). continental replied and stated that the tire had been repaired (funny that the tire maintained air pressure even when the entire tread had been blown off). this is not a fair and responsible settlement. i sent continental the invoice for the cost of all four tires ($445.12) and two auto repair estimates for the damage (~$800.00 averaged). i noticed that these tires had previously had a recall on the exact tire (id #02t012000) and continental did not mention this or attempt to remedy this situation. i am fortunate that neither me nor my son were killed as a result of this defect which failed while we were travelling on the highway at 65mph. i do not normally file these types of claims. in fact, i can't ever recall ever filing one previously. please help with this claim and hold continental responsible for their faulty product before any other tires faila dn possibly hurt or kill someone. *jb |