General Tire - Continental Tire General Tires There tires are dangerous! At 38000 miles they start to make your truck shake then the rubber starts coming off. Fort Mill, South Carolina

   After the tread separated on my OEM Firestone at 40K, it was about 2 weeks until the other rear tire had tread separation.  Fortunately, I noticed it was beginning to separate while it was still in the driveway. 

   I don't know if the OEM tires are made cheaper, but when I've seen tread separation on non-retreads, it's always seems to be on OEM tires. 

Thanks for the additional information.

If this is really happening I'd be upset too.

I guess I thought only retreads had the tread come off like this.  Not good.

It seems like showing them the bald tire with no tread would tell them something usefull, especially if the others are realatively OK.

Good luck!

It is a dually. The tire was not completely bare but what was left at the tire shop was put in junk pile and  picked up. I realize that 38,000 is alot of miles but this has happened to both of our trucks. We replaced the tires on the front of his truck 2 months ago and mine last year. The other replacements did not have damage to our trucks. The tread separating and the shaking of the truck is what is dangerous. Also, I looked up Continental Tire on Google and their are 15 pages of complaints on the same tires (General) talking about the shaking and tread.

It was an inside dual and no nail the tread separated and came off. This happened to the front tires also at 30,000 miles but there was no damage. The same thing happened to my truck, front tires on vacation last year. NO they did not adjust them.

After 38,000 miles there are many things that could happen to a tire that is not the fault of the manufacturer.  They want to see it so they can try to determine what happened to it.

Are you saying that every piece of tire is gone and there is absolutely nothing to see? He was driving on a bare rim?

I would not expect them to just pay based on your claim.

And, no, I do not work for any tire company or anyone related to a tire company. 

Was this a dual rear tire? if so what happens is one goes flat (Usualy a nail) and shreds because of the heat generated whie running.

If tht's what happened, there's no warranty, any tire will blow and shred running low or flat.

   The same thing happened to me after 40K miles on original equipment Firestones.  I had about $500 damage to my wheel well and truck bed.   Firestone wasn't interested in hearing about a tire with that many miles on it.  

  About the most you can do is to file a safety complaint with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation.  The website is here :

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/

We did file a report with Continental and they told us they needed the tire. It is along the road where he was driving. They said inorder for the complaint to be looked at they must have the tire. That got us no where. So I have filed a complaint with the government recall. I hope this does something for someone.

If you would like to follow up on your claim, please send an email to consumerinfo@conti-na.com . Once we receive your contact information, our claims coordinator will give you a call.