Hey guys,
I have a set of low-profile Bridgstone Blizzaks that are only 3 years old. Always kept around 32 psi and never abused. I lost 2 of them on the highway within a week of eachother and upon examination found big cracks on the inner sidewalls of the other two. I have never seen this happen to a tire this young before, and the fact that it happened to all 4 makes me think it was an issue with the manufacturing process or a bad batch or rubber rather than something that I did wrong. I already dropped $500 to replace the two that blew, but i dont think that this should be happening. Anybody know if bridgestone has a warranty for something like this?

 

Not sure if the warranty, but who did you buy them from? Even though you had them 3 years doesn't mean they weren't in a warehouse for several years under lousy condition

 

I believe they came from town fair tire. I can check the DOT dates later and tell you exactly when they were manufactured.

working on posting some pics

 

 

3 years isn't bad. How were you storing them?

 

Dang those are deep cracks.... Looks almost like someone tried to slash them. Is it on both sides of every tire?

 

only insides, but yes all four.

 

They were stored inside for most of the year, kept in a climate controlled basement. i'm just pissed because the set still had 80% of the tread left, but because of the sidewalls they are just really expensive scrap rubber.

 

did you maybe hit something on the road that caused them to be cut like that?..did you put any kind of dressing on them to keep them from drying out?

 

Unfortunately man that looks like a razor blade mark when tires separate that deeply its usually not that wiggly of a line they tend to crack along where the layers of rubber are fused. It could be a bad tire though to if they used cheap rubber or it wasn't the right mixture of components in the rubber they can crack like that but its rare.