Tire blowout.. 43K

[shadow gray 2020 hd]

1 hour ago, MTU Alum said:

Load range E tires has maximum cold inflation pressure of 80 psi.  Manufacturer can lower the pressure from there to meet loading conditions or performance targets.

 

#iworkforGM

 

Yep.  Placard inside my door has my tire pressures at 60 for the front and 70 for the rear, even though the tires are rated with a max pressure of 80 psi.  

[Tomato]

On 5/28/2022 at 6:14 PM, LarryM said:

So I was just driving along this afternoon and had the worst tire blowout I have ever seen. My rear left panel and tailgate are wrecked. 

 

Backround, always rotated tires.. TPMS all normal, 43K On stock tires, no lifts or mods. 

 

Anyone seen this or know what to do? 

 

 

Exact same thing happened to a friend of mine when his F250 had about 12,000 miles on it. He was actually able to get Goodyear to cover the cost and did not need to get his auto insurance involved. I would make sure your insurance goes after GY...My 2020 had factory Michelins, but my new truck came with GY Trailrunners. Now I think I need to change them out!  Dammit.

[swathdiver]

11 hours ago, Tomato said:

 

Exact same thing happened to a friend of mine when his F250 had about 12,000 miles on it. He was actually able to get Goodyear to cover the cost and did not need to get his auto insurance involved. I would make sure your insurance goes after GY...My 2020 had factory Michelins, but my new truck came with GY Trailrunners. Now I think I need to change them out!  Dammit.

Not unless you don't like them.  That tire came apart because of age.  In hot climates they'll start developing cracks in about three years and get progressively worse.  We retire tires down here in Florida after 4 years regardless of mileage.

[rocky202]

On 5/28/2022 at 6:14 PM, LarryM said:

So I was just driving along this afternoon and had the worst tire blowout I have ever seen. My rear left panel and tailgate are wrecked. 

 

Backround, always rotated tires.. TPMS all normal, 43K On stock tires, no lifts or mods. 

 

Anyone seen this or know what to do? 

 

 

[rocky202]

You are not alone. The same thing happened to me twice. I have a 2020 GMC 2500 HD diesel truck. It barely had 14,000 miles on it when the first front right tire blew and caused over $5000 in damage. Although I was suspicious that a tire tread should not separate from the tire at 14,000 miles, I let my insurance company handle it. I asked for an investigation but they were not interested. That blowout was so severe and the passenger door was so damaged that it could not be opened .  I got my truck back in July from the collision specialist and I drove it for one week and I had a second blowout on the passenger rear. Again it’s going to be $5000. And again my insurance company is not interested in helping me or being my advocate. This time I have not filed a claim with my insurance company.  Discount Tires, the national chain, has filed a claim to Goodyear in my behalf. They shipped the tire to Goodyear and it is being examined. I was contacted by a Goodyear employee via email to provide some background information. This has only been a week so far.  But now that I have been talking to more collision specialist and more tow truck drivers and it is becoming increasingly evident that there is an increase in tire blowouts with 2020 GM HD 2500 pickup trucks that have Good Year TrailRunner AT LT275/65R20 tires.  There is something seriously wrong with these tires folks. If you have them I highly recommend you replace them before somebody gets hurt.

[LarryM]

Thanks for the update... And sorry you are dealing with the same bs. My total damage came out to 8500 and truck in the shop a month (Geicos fault). 

 

I wonder now how to get the finger pointed at Goodyear and not my claim on insurance... If it's clearly a problem with that tire, they should be liable. 

[rocky202]

GY should absolutely be liable LarryM.  Let's see if I get any results from GY.  I will keep you posted.  My truck was in the shop for a month too. and Geico is my insurance too.  I'm hoping you starting this post, that more and more people will post their experience with that tire and it will force either the insurance company or a class action.  OR maybe GY will do the right thing by us.   But that is futuristic wishful thinking.  Oh and did you get the "parts are hard to come by and we don't know how long it will take to get new parts" story?  They don't tap out dents any more.  They replace the whole panel.

[LarryM]

Yep..over a month and due to the parts, I am paying out of pocket for my rental now. I am friends with the owner of the shop and he is trying, but he wants to do it right and put on GM parts that are backordered indefinitely so his hands are tied. To make it worse, by claims adjuster was fired/quit after I dropped off. It took 18 days just for the approval..I was at sea during that time and thought I'd come back to it fixed, but had to call them to get out there. Now I am working with a supervisor to get approved who won't call me back. Every day I have been calling back and forth between adjuster and Geico to fix...finally spoke to someone at Geico yesterday who identified the problem..since the original adjust left, the current supervisors adjuster can't approve it. It has to be from the original supervisor. Think I am getting a new insurance company after all this washes over, but definitely hope GY can right their wrong. Blowouts like this definitely seem like a manufacturer problem, I still had air in the tire, it looked just like yours... 

[asilverblazer]

Wrong quote...

Edited August 3, 2022 by asilverblazer

[asilverblazer]

On 5/31/2022 at 7:13 AM, diyer2 said:

Makes no sense to me, a person has a bad experience with a product and that manufacturer is banned. Every manufacturer of every product, yes that covers all of them can make a bad one. Maybe that line of a product should be avoided but not every product they make.

I guarantee every male has had a bad experience with a female and they weren't banned. 

The logic is sound, but why would anyone take a chance at a repeat bad product experience, that'd be just stupid.

[newdude]

Hmm.  Yet more failures on that factory installed Goodyear TrailRunner AT.  There are reports in the 2020HD Facebook group on this as well from outward bulging (beyond the normal construction indent thats on the tire) to blowouts.  

 

I sure hope the people experiencing these are notifying not just GM but the NHTSA so there can be an investigation.  Goodyear will probably drag it out too just like that RV tire debacle they just agreed to fix.  

 

Haven't seen a blowout one yet at work, but a few that were just about bald at less than 20,000mi.  

Edited August 3, 2022 by newdude

[CamGTP]

Seems to take years for this stuff to even go anywhere.

 

Michelin had a problem with a certain "premier" tire, one that they spent millions and million promoting online, TV ads, running specials and given rebates up the ass to anyone that would buy the tire. Now their problem wasn't a blow out issue but a severe premature wear out problem that had some vehicles burning through sets in 20-30k miles with ease. I lost track of how many warranty claims got sent in and Michelin would just give them another set of tires for 20-30k miles, then the customers would jump ship to a different brand. After a few years the solution was just to offer more tread on the tire LOL and another year or so later they partially redesigned the tire to improve it.

 

So if that says anything, it'll be awhile or maybe never that something happens with the Goodyears. By the time something comes along Goodyear likely would have changed the designed/discontinued that tire and the people that had them on their trucks would have already replaced them from issues or just normal wear.

 

Maybe I'll be wrong but who knows really.

[shadow gray 2020 hd]

On 8/2/2022 at 4:45 PM, rocky202 said:

You are not alone. The same thing happened to me twice. I have a 2020 GMC 2500 HD diesel truck. It barely had 14,000 miles on it when the first front right tire blew and caused over $5000 in damage. Although I was suspicious that a tire tread should not separate from the tire at 14,000 miles, I let my insurance company handle it. I asked for an investigation but they were not interested. That blowout was so severe and the passenger door was so damaged that it could not be opened .  I got my truck back in July from the collision specialist and I drove it for one week and I had a second blowout on the passenger rear. Again it’s going to be $5000. And again my insurance company is not interested in helping me or being my advocate. This time I have not filed a claim with my insurance company.  Discount Tires, the national chain, has filed a claim to Goodyear in my behalf. They shipped the tire to Goodyear and it is being examined. I was contacted by a Goodyear employee via email to provide some background information. This has only been a week so far.  But now that I have been talking to more collision specialist and more tow truck drivers and it is becoming increasingly evident that there is an increase in tire blowouts with 2020 GM HD 2500 pickup trucks that have Good Year TrailRunner AT LT275/65R20 tires.  There is something seriously wrong with these tires folks. If you have them I highly recommend you replace them before somebody gets hurt.

 

That sucks.  Good luck with goodyear.  Let us know how it goes.

[Dmax2020]

I too experienced the samething yesterday 8.23.22. I have a 2020 chevy 2500hd with 18k miles on it and the rear driverside tire blew, this cause the rear panel to get heavily damaged and my tailgate. The tire separated from the tread and slapped the rear tailgate, denting it. I didnt trust the other tires, so i replaced the others. These tires were the stock GY wrangler trailrunner LT275/65 20r. These tires are garbage, if you have them i suggest changing them out.

Edited August 24, 2022 by Dmax2020

[richard wysong]

I'm surprised the insurance companies aren't going after GY, how many other ppl have had this problem that are not members of the forums? it must be in the thousands