B.F.Goodrich all-terrain tire failures: what 34 owner reports say

Every complaint filed with NHTSA against the B.F.Goodrich All-terrain, read and classified: which failures owners actually describe, how that mix compares with all tire complaints on file, and at what mileage the tire let go.

By Mark Bishop · Last verified 2026-10-07

The evidence base

34Written owner reports

Crash, injury and death figures are the counts owners themselves reported to NHTSA when filing.

What owners described

Blowout or sudden deflation appears in 41% of these reports; about 2.0× as often as across all tire complaints. Percentages are shares of the 34 reports filed against the B.F.Goodrich All-terrain across every vehicle it was fitted to that include a written account; a single report can describe more than one problem, so they do not total 100%.

Reported problem	This subject	All tire complaints	Relative
Blowout or sudden deflation	41%	20%	2.0×
Cracking or dry rot	18%	9%	1.9×
Loss of control, rollover or collision	18%	8%	2.1×
Tread or belt separation	15%	13%	1.1×
Sidewall failure	15%	15%	1.0×
Bubble or bulge in the tire	6%	6%	1.0×

Mileage at failure

29 of these reports state an odometer reading. The middle report is at 12,000 miles, with 8 in 10 falling between 4,500 and 136,490 miles.

In owners' own words

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA about B.F.Goodrich All-terrain. Reports are published by NHTSA as filed and are lightly cleaned here only to remove intake codes.

BOUGHT A CERTIFIED TOYOTA TUNDRA EQUIPPED WITH BF GOODRICH ALL TERRAIN T/A-BAJA CHAMPION TIRES--LT285/55R20-3PLY-RADIAL-HAD TO REPLACE A TIRE DUE TO A CRACK ON THE TREAD WHICH WAS CAUSING VIBRATION-UPON INSPECTION OF OTHER TIRES WE NOTICED CRACKS ON THE TIRES--VERY CONCERNED WITH OUR SAFETY-WE HAVE 1800 MILES ON THE TRUCK WHICH WE HAVE ONLY DRIVEN IT 8000 MILES SINCE WE BOUGHT IT WITH 10000 MILES WE DON'T ABUSE OUR TRUCK --WE ARE VERY CAREFUL AS WE ARE SENIOR DRIVERS- ARE WE AT RISK OF TIRE FAILURE RISKING OUR LIVES?

NHTSA complaint 1006609

ON MARCH 31, 2015 MY TRUCK WAS DAMAGED FOR THE SECOND TIME DUE TO TREAD SEPARATION ON A BF GOODRICH ALL TERRAIN T/A KO, LT 285 / 65R20 TIRE (DOT BE3F UH11 0912). MY TRUCK IS A BLACK 2012 FORD, F-350 SUPER DUTY, FX4, LARIAT. 1.WHILE DRIVING ON I-10 TRAVELING ~67MPH I FELT A SUDDEN BUMPING OF ONE OF MY TIRES BEFORE I COULD REDUCE MY SPEED AND PULL OVER TO THE SHOULDER TO GET OFF THE ROAD THE TREAD SEPARATED FROM THE TIRE CAUSING DAMAGE TO MY TRUCK AND BARELY MISSING OTHER VEHICLES I WAS PASSING ON THE ROAD. 2.AS I REDUCED MY SPEED AND WHILE PULLING OVER TO THE SHOULDER OF THE ROAD, THE TIRE BLEW OUT, I WAS ABLE TO KEEP MY TRUCK UNDER CONTROL AND MADE IT TO THE SHOULDER OF THE ROAD SO THE TIRE COULD BE REMOVED SAFELY.

NHTSA complaint 1195111

VEHICLE WAS GOING 60MPH ON INTERSTATE THERE WAS NO WARNING BEFORE BACK END DROPPED, AND REAR PASSENGER'S TIRE BLEWOUT. SIDEWALL WAS STILL ATTACHED, AND TREAD WAS IN ONE PIECE. MANUFACTURER WAS REPLACING ONE TIRE FREE OF CHARGE. AFTERMARKET TIRES; SIZE 33X10.50; 15 5,000 MILES.

NHTSA complaint 328172

I BOUGHT A NEW GMC YUKON THAT CAME WITH BF GOODRICH LONG TRAIL SIZE P245/75 R16 NEW ON THE YUKON. THE SUMMER OF 2000 WITH AROUND 12000 MILES ON THE TIRES I HAD A BLOW OUT GOING AROUND 70 ON A REAR TIRE. ABOUT A YEAR AGO I HAD ONE OF THE TIRES GO BAD/ HAD A BUBBLE DEVELOP ON THE TREAD. THIS LAST WEEKEND I HAD ANOTHER TIRE DEVELOP A BUBBLE ON THE TREAD. LAST YEAR THE SERIAL NUMBER FROM THE BAD TIRE WAS AP70HK11478. THE BLOWOUT I DID NOT GET THE SERIAL NUMBER AND THE ONE OVER THE LAST WEEKEND I HAVE NOT GOT THE NUMBER FROM THAT TIRE AT THIS TIME.

NHTSA complaint 455298

How to read this

Complaints are voluntarily submitted to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation and are not verified by NHTSA. They are owner-reported problems, not proven defects, and volume tracks how many of a tire were sold as much as how often it failed. What is comparable is the mix: which problems owners describe here versus across every tire complaint on file. That comparison, the mileage distribution and the mode rankings on this page are our analysis of the public record.

Related analysis

Blowout or sudden deflation; 2.0× the corpus rate here; see which other tires over-index
Cracking or dry rot; 1.9× the corpus rate here; see which other tires over-index
Loss of control, rollover or collision; 2.1× the corpus rate here; see which other tires over-index
B.F.Goodrich Touring T/A; 30 reports

All B.F.Goodrich tire failure analysis

FAQ

What goes wrong with B.F.Goodrich All-terrain tires?

Across 34 written complaints, the most common description is blowout or sudden deflation, in 41% of reports; about 2.0× as often as across all tire complaints. A single report can describe more than one problem.

Is the B.F.Goodrich All-terrain recalled?

Complaints are not recalls. A complaint is a voluntary, unverified owner report; a recall is an official campaign requiring a free remedy. Check the current recall status by DOT date code at the NHTSA recall lookup; that is the only authoritative answer for your specific tire.

At what mileage do B.F.Goodrich All-terrain tires fail?

Of the owners who stated an odometer reading, the middle report is at 12,000 miles, with 8 in 10 between 4,500 and 136,490 miles. These are failures, not typical tire life; nobody files a complaint about a tire that wore out normally.

Sources

Last verified 2026-10-07 against the sources below.

NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation; owner complaints dataset (unverified owner reports, US federal government work, public domain).
NHTSA Recalls database, nhtsa.gov/recalls.
Corpus baselines computed over 58,390 complaint narratives longer than 200 characters.