Celsior Master

SoCalSC4 - i was just wondering what ever happened in your situation with bridgestone

rominl

iTrader: (4)

even worse, we have YET another case today by one of the member on this board. more info to come!

Captain Bone

Just what I need to hear.

The GSD-3 are on major backorder so I settled with the SO-3's because I never had any trouble with them.

I hope I don't regret it.

-Anthony

R.U. IN AW?

I just ordered the same tire and hopefully they won't follow suit? Maybe Brandon can chime in and tell us what's the deal with these SO3's.....and to think I was the only one with those cracks.....to clear things up though, I bought the package from someone else and one of the tires came like that! Brandon where are you?



-R-

Synergy

Yep - Rominl is correct....I too have inside wall separation cracks on two of my S03s with only 6K miles! I spoke to a local tire shop tech today and he told me that he has seen five sets of the Potenza S03s in the last six months with this EXACT issue. He also mentioned that the cars that had the problem were all Lexus and Mercedes. Now that is scarry!!

I have been in touch with TIreRack and they are reviewing my digital images of the cracks now. I am hoping they will help me out and I can then pick up some new tires quickly. The cracks are similar to others that are posted on this thread. I run at 40PSI and they are 245 / 35 / 20s with minimal wear.

I will let you know what I hear from TireRack. My local Firestone store manager told me that they were surley defective and that he could send them back to Bridgestone for a credit. The problem is that it could take up to 30 days to get the credit and I have a car show in a week!!!

I am hoping others who have this issue will chime in so we can see how wide spread this S03 issue is.

LXOGOOD

Holy crap... I was just going to order those tires for my new set of wheels coming soon. Someone needs to get in touch with Bridgestone and show them this thread. This is too scary man...

Synergy

Yep - very scary and very dangerous. IMO I would stay clear of these tires!

rominl

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just off the top of my head, i already know about 4 guys with this problem. say all you want, but i really don't think this is "a few percentage" or occasioanl cases

sirsomo

FWIW I am on my 3rd set of S-03 and have never had the cracks. Ive never heard of this happening either. Maybe you guys got tires from a bad batch or something? Whats scary though is that the tires picutred have minimal wear. It would be hard to argue that it wasnt a defect. I just ordered a pair for my car, I will keep everyone updated.

altaf

I just scratched this tire off my wish list... keep us posted guys!

Celsior Master

ive talked to them on the phone and the problem for me is that all they would offer is a partial credit... not even a new set of tires but an offer for a replacement at a "prorated" rate...

rominl

iTrader: (4)

do you still have the tires with you? if so, hold on to them. if they keep on saying the "prorated" bs, you have a case!

Brandon@TR

I have these tires on my IS. Around here we take them off for the winter and on so we see the inside of the tires all the time. Many of our sales staff uses these tires and we have tested them extensively ourselves and this issue has never come up befor. I will forward this thread though and maybe we will get a response...

GGP4me

YIKES! Glad I looked in this thread today...

I too was to order some SO-3s TODAY since my first choice: Goodyear F1 are on national back order.

Now what am I to do?

Celsior Master

i still have my tires mounted on the rims, sitting in the garage... have been running on stocks ever since the incident... hopefully something will come of this