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2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Tires Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	763181
Internal NHTSA #	10307335
Manufacurer	TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
Brand	TOYOTA
Model	HIGHLANDER
Model Year	2008
File date	06/03/08
Component	TIRES
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	My wife's 2008 toyota highlander sport with 19" rims came with bridgestone dueler h/l 400 tires. This tire happens to be the only tire made to fit this rim other than a toyota open country which apparently was standard on the hybrid model. We found this tire to be unfit and unsafe for a 4,500 lb vehicle of this scale. These tires hydroplan in rain from the moment they were new, and they handled terribly in any amount of snow, causing the rear of our 4wd vehicle to slide sideways when starting from simple stops. On several occasions we held our breath as we slid toward vehicles and property while the stability control system tried in vain to overcome the tire's very poor handling characteristics. If you go to tirerack. Com you will see that this tire is rated extremely poorly by many many owners of highlanders and other cars that they came standard on. When i contacted toyota about this, they balked at me, and copped an attitude when they asked if i seriously thought toyota was going to replace my tires for me. These tires are unsafe for any vehicle which will travel in snow or rain. The final insult of these tires is that they were more than three-quarters worn out by 15,000 miles. We milked these tires until almost 30,000 miles since i refused to buy the same tire again, hoping some other manufacturer would come along with a similar sized tire - 245/55-19. That never happened, so i went with a 255 width tire and brought a well rated hankook. I could not be happier. I am just incensed that toyota colluded with bridgestone to install such terribly cheap and unsafe tires on thousands of highlanders, stranding all those owners to suffer the same instability issues as we did, while they did not work with any other tire vendors to supply this distinctive tire design. I am not sure who i hold in more contempt - bridgestone or toyota. I do not doubt that you could research vehicle crashes involving highlanders and find many caused by poor traction. *tw
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	1000
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	HANOVER, MA
VIN pattern	JTEES43A282XXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
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Date of purchase	07/08/26
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
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Vehicle speed	10
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What is Recall?
A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
What is Failure?
Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
What is Defect?
Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Tires Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Tires Problems, Complaints and Defects

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