Blew out a tire on the 2002 HD. Anyone have to replace one yet or seen a price?

Thanks

 

At 50 miles, I was losing tread (golfball size chunks) on my driver's front tire. Dealer will replace under Goodyear warranty, but tire is supposedly on national backorder. Sounds like a bunch of crap to me! Tirerack.com seems to have a good supply of them. I ordered mine a week ago, but seems to have been misrouted according to ups.com tracking. Cost me $133 ($152 w/shipping). Dealer said they would reimburse the $152, since their tire is on national backorder. I'll believe it when I get my money.

 

Thats a pretty good deal, i was thinking it would be more then my L tire.

 

Got my tire today. Gotta schedule an appt. with the dealer to have it mounted/balanced (also under warranty). I hear these tires are fairly inexpensive due to the fact that the only application is the HD and it's a mediocre tire, hence my tire falling apart at 50 miles. There's a lot of engineering and development in those F1's ($300+/tire...holy crap!).

You trying to have it replaced under warranty? Can't get it if you don't ask. I had to hound my dealer to reimburse me for my tire. They wanted me to wait until their approved vendor had stock (try to keep it in the Ford family while I suffer with missing tread). I told him to take some of that MSRP I paid and absorb the $152 and make me feel better about Ford and having to pay MSRP.

 

I ended up getting a tire at cost from a friend at a local tire place. It ran about $148. He popped a hole in the sidewall somehow, not sure if the dealer will do anything about that. I will have him give them a call though.

 

I think those prices sound pretty inexpensive.
I think Ford is kind of touchy of tire issues after the Firestone problems.

 

Even when I ripped my sidewall on my old '97 F150, Sears replaced the tire on their warranty. They said the tire should have withstood that. I'm not sure what Goodyear/Ford warranties (defects or operator error). Still, depending on what poked your sidewall, it could be due to poor construction of the tire, such as a brush against a curb.

 

Tire at cost for 148?.....not a good friend....cost on the tire is around 110 each, I was sold a replacement for 124 at the goodyear dealer.