Kev

will the bubble on the tire covered by warranty??

BruceS4

crawl underneath the car to check the sidewalls. I'm sure though that if we can encourage poeple to check for this underneath, since it seems like it may be a true problem, it would diffenatley help our case. Also I read the post below about the cold weather, I live in PA and I found the bubble when it was one of the colder periods here staying under freezing for more than a week.

stokes

Quick recap: OEM tires suck in the snow and suck in the mud; okay in the dry and okay in the wet.

I hit pothole doing around 40-50 mph, only damage was buldge in the right front tire (no damage to wheel). I took it to a tire place to see if it was covered under warrenty, but it wasn't. I ended up getting a new tire. The bridgestone warrenty won't cover a road hazard (ie hitting something). The warrenty will only place defective tires not damaged tires.
I never told the tire techs that I hit anything, they just looked at the tire and said I hit something even though there was no damage to my wheel.

BTW about 2500 miles on the car.

mpm

5000 miles, driver front outside (golf ball sized) replaced w/o question

mpm

oh, and inspected all tires after putting on the snows (only the driver ft)

LCP

Link with details...

LCP

The manager at the store I went to said he'd have to do the mount or he'd be buying me a new rim

Jim De Arras

my bubble was causing a vibration in the wheel, so I would have found it on either side. But I take your point. The fact that we are also seeing a few left front outside bubbles tends to reduce the defect theory. I think the summer rubber compounds cannot handle the cold, they get too stiff, and when presented with ANY impact, they come apart internally.

We'll see this summer, but I strongly suspect the bubbles will go away when the weather warms up.

PGG

Just checked it out this morning after reading your posts. Don't remember any potholes in particular, but I am in NYC at least weekly, so one tends to take them for granted.

Jim De Arras

That's the debate, apparently most aren't covered.