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From: Laveen
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I just had a blowout on my wifes F250 PSD one of the firestone Steeltex A/T s on the left front exploded, wraped around the axle yanked the wheel out of my hand and sent us right into the cable deviders. 10K plus in damage. I checked and found no recall info on the tires but Firestone wants the tire. Well we went down to the body shop to get the tire and there was the truck, I walked over to look at it while my wife went inside and I was looking at it and thinking I remember the tire tore up the fender well and ripped the sensor wires off the wheel, but I didn't remember it tore off the brake lines" and my wife walks up with a guy from the office and says "Thats not my truck".
Turns out they have three vehicles in there right now with the exact same Firestone Steeltex A/T blowouts, My wifes F250 PSD, another exactly like it with the same exact wheel and circumstances minus the cable devider and a chevy PU with the same tires and a front end blowout, ut Firestone says the aren't having any unusual failures with these tires.
Turns out they have three vehicles in there right now with the exact same Firestone Steeltex A/T blowouts, My wifes F250 PSD, another exactly like it with the same exact wheel and circumstances minus the cable devider and a chevy PU with the same tires and a front end blowout, ut Firestone says the aren't having any unusual failures with these tires.
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What air pressure do you run in them? I put in the max cold in mine and have no problems. I also put the max cold in our mini buses and have had no problems. From what you describe makes me think of the explorer problems. My opinion hasn't changed on this one, Ford recommends too low air pressure for the amount of weight being carried. Just I thought.
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I'm running the pressure recomended in the trucks manual, I checked my guages against against a calibrated guage they were all good exept for a low pressure tractor guage, a cheapy camel I used at work for hand truck tires, it was 15 lbs low, and a big truck guage, its OK it just doesn't read until 50lbs plus. I've had other tires come apart but this is the first that went without some warning, A couple of weeks ago I replaced my front tires on my 84 F150 when a belt broke, you could feel the telltale shimmy through the wheel, it wasn't a bad shimmy but I've felt it before.
