phileaglesfan
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Wife was driving to work last night in heavy snow and the RF Bridgestone on my Denali just blew out. She was driving around 30 mph. Tires have 43k miles on them.
So I took it to the FS/BS dealer only to find out they would not cover them because I didn't buy it from them and because she drove on the tire with no air. The blow out happened right before a rail road track then the road goes uphill. She pulled over 1/4 mile down the road when she could safely pull over. They said it didn't matter that the blow out caused the zero air pressure.
Back right one also had a cut in the sidewall so I told the dealer by and went to Discount Tire to buy Michelins. The LTX MS2 seems to be a great tire from what I have seen today. Even though the DT guy put the pressure at 40 psi the ride was smooth and quiet. $1100 so they are not cheap. Bstones had around 7/32s of tread wear left so 80k would be about right for them. Of course snow traction drops around 4-5/32ds so I probably would have to replace them this Nov/Dec anyway.
It wasn't fun changing the tire in the snow. Darn spare tire winch got stuck in the up position also after I threw the deflated tire in the trunk and winched up the cable to get home.
So I took it to the FS/BS dealer only to find out they would not cover them because I didn't buy it from them and because she drove on the tire with no air. The blow out happened right before a rail road track then the road goes uphill. She pulled over 1/4 mile down the road when she could safely pull over. They said it didn't matter that the blow out caused the zero air pressure.
Back right one also had a cut in the sidewall so I told the dealer by and went to Discount Tire to buy Michelins. The LTX MS2 seems to be a great tire from what I have seen today. Even though the DT guy put the pressure at 40 psi the ride was smooth and quiet. $1100 so they are not cheap. Bstones had around 7/32s of tread wear left so 80k would be about right for them. Of course snow traction drops around 4-5/32ds so I probably would have to replace them this Nov/Dec anyway.
It wasn't fun changing the tire in the snow. Darn spare tire winch got stuck in the up position also after I threw the deflated tire in the trunk and winched up the cable to get home.
