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2009 Wildcat 510 Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Aug 24, 2015
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Jun 21, 2012

What this page shows

Our database holds 2 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2009 Wildcat 510. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Tires & wheels
Filed Aug 24, 2015

TOWING A FIFTH WHEEL TRAILER.11,400 LBS GVW. APPROX SPEED WAS 55-60 MPH. TIRES AT RECOMMENDED PRESSURE. 80PSI. TIRES ON TRAILER WERE ST225/75/15. FOUR TIRE FAILURES WITHIN 100 MILES. 3 BLOWOUTS AND 1 WITH BUBBLED SIDEWALL. EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO THE TRAILER. THE TIRES WERE BCT BRAND. INSTALLED MARCH OF 2013. APPROX. 2000 MILES ON TIRES.

NHTSA ID
10758954
Incident
Aug 23, 2015
Mileage
2,000 mi
Tires & wheels
Filed Jun 21, 2012

SPECIALTY TIRES ON TRAILERS, TIRES BLOW OUT AT CURRENT HIGHWAY SPEEDS WITHOUT WARNING CAUSING VEHICLE DAMAGE AND POSSIBLE LOSS OF CONTROL RESULTING IN INJURY TO OCCUPANTS, VEHICLE AND OTHER VEHICLES. MY INCIDENT RESULTED IN PROPERTY DAMAGE ONLY TO THE TRAILER, BUT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WORST. INTERNET RESEARCH SHOWS ST (SPECIALTY TIRES) TO BE OF LOWER GRADE AND COMMON TO BLOW OUTS, RESULTING IN DAMAGE AND TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. EVEN GOODYEAR HAS PUBLISHED A CONSUMER WARNING THAT ST TYPE TIRES ARE NOT RATED FOR SPEEDS OF 65 MPH OR GREATER. ST TIRES SHOULD HAVE TO MEET THE SAME HIGHWAY STANDARDS AS LIGHT TRUCK TIRES. I REPLACED ALL FOUR OF MY ST TIRES AFTER THIS INCIDENT WITH A LIGHT TRUCK TIRE. VENDORS RECOMMEND REPLACEMENT, THEY CALL ST TIRES (CHINA BOMBS), ADVISING THE QUESTION IS NOT IF THEY WILL FAIL BUT WHEN! MY TIRES AND TRAILER WERE JUST THREE YEARS OLD, AND THE RECOMMENDED AIR PRESSURE WAS AT 80PSI AS DIRECTED BY THE TRAILER MANUFACTURER. I HAD TIRES FILLED WITH NITROGEN TO HELP KEEP TIRES COOL AND TRAILER WAS WEIGHTED TO INSURE GVW WAS NOT EXCEEDED. GROSS VEHICLE WEIGHT RATING IS LISTED AT 12,115 LBS. AT TIME OF FAILURE THE TIRES WERE CARRYING APPROXIMATELY 9,800 LBS. THIS WEIGHT IS DISTRIBUTED OVER FOUR TIRES ON THE TRAILER. THE BRAND WAS POWER TOWING, TRAIL EXPRESS OF THE FAILED TIRE BUT I HAVE FOUND THAT BRAND DOES NOT SEEM TO BE THE ISSUE. ALL ST TIRES BY DESIGN ARE PRONE TO FAILURE. STANDARDS IN DESIGN OF THESE TIRES NEED TO CHANGE TO REDUCE THESE FAILURES AND THE RESULTING ACCIDENTS. I AM A EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL DRIVER AND POSSES THE SKILLS THAT ALLOWED ME TO REACT PROPERLY TO PREVENT AN ACCIDENT AND INJURY TO MYSELF AND OTHERS. HOWEVER, OTHER CONSUMERS DO NOT HAVE SUCH SKILLS AND THE VEHICLE DEALERS DO NOT WARN BUYERS OF POSSIBLE TIRE BLOW OUTS. YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THIS MATTER WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED, A INCREASE IN DESIGN STANDARDS INCLUDING LOAD, SPEED AND CONSTRUCTION PLY WOULD HELP. THANK YOU. *TT

NHTSA ID
10462557
Incident
May 29, 2012
Mileage
2,900 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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