Bridgestone turanza T tire failures: what 39 owner reports say
Every complaint filed with NHTSA against the Bridgestone Turanza T, 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.
The evidence base
Crash, injury and death figures are the counts owners themselves reported to NHTSA when filing.
What owners described
Tread or belt separation is the most common description, in 10% of these reports. Percentages are shares of the 39 reports filed against the Bridgestone Turanza T 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tread or belt separation | 10% | 13% | 0.8× |
| Cracking or dry rot | 10% | 9% | 1.1× |
| Loss of control, rollover or collision | 8% | 8% | 0.9× |
| Blowout or sudden deflation | 5% | 20% | 0.3× |
| Sidewall failure | 5% | 15% | 0.3× |
| Bubble or bulge in the tire | 5% | 6% | 0.9× |
Mileage at failure
32 of these reports state an odometer reading. The middle report is at 16,500 miles, with 8 in 10 falling between 5,600 and 30,000 miles.
In owners' own words
Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA about Bridgestone Turanza T. Reports are published by NHTSA as filed and are lightly cleaned here only to remove intake codes.
PE-00-020; REPLACEMENT TIRES FOR A 1995 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER, TIRE SIZE P205/70R14, DOT NUMBER Y719PVA086, TIRES HAD 45 THOUSAND MILES ON THEM. ALL FOUR TIRES WERE DEVELOPING BUBBLES ON THE TREAD, CAUSING TREAD TO SEPARATE, RESULTING IN THE TIRES GOING FLAT. CONSUMER HAS REPLACED ALL BUT ONE TIRE. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS.
THIS IS THE SECOND VEHICLE THAT HAS HAD A BLOW OUT WITH THE BRIDGESTONE TURANZA P215/65 R15 95T. I CALLED A LOCAL BRIDGESTONE-FIRESTONE DEALER AND ALL THEY SAID WAS THAT IT WASN'T ON THE LIST. THE FIRST VEHICLE WAS A 1997 DODGE INTREPID VIN [XXX] AND IT HAD THE PASSENGER FRONT TIRE BLOW. IT DID $1940. WORTH OF DAMAGE. ALL I'M ASKING IS SINCE IT ISN'T ON THE "LIST" MAYBE IT SHOULD BE. THE TOP OF THE TIRE SEPARATED COMPLETELY AND DAMAGED THE FRONT QUARTER PANEL ALONG WITH THE BUMPER, ETC. LUCKILY THERE WERE NO INJURIES OR FATALITIES. I HAVE SINCE GONE WITH A DIFFERENT TIRE AND NOT BRIDGESTONE-FIRESTONE. (DOT NUMBER: DNC508 ? TIRESIZE: P215/65 R1).S.C. 552(B)(6).
PE-00-020; BRIDGESTONE TURANZA T TIRE SIZE P20565TR15, DOT NUMBER NOT AVAILABLE, TIRES HAVE ABOUT 2-3 THOUSAND MILES ON THEM, TIRES WERE REPLACED FOR A 1993, BMW 525. WHILE DRIVNG 40 MPH FRONTAL PASSENGER'S SIDE TIRE INNER TREAD SEPARATED FROM T OUTER TREAD. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS.
SIX TIRES ON THIS CAR HAVE FLATTENED SINCE ITS PURCHASE WITH NO EVIDENCE OF ROAD HAZARD. THEY BEGAN TO RAPIDLY LEAK AIR WITHIN MONTHS OF PURCHASE AND, ONCE FLATTENED, ARE NOT REPAIRABLE BECAUSE OF SIDEWALL DAMAGE. ONE POSSIBILITY IS THAT THE TIRE AND WHEEL DO NOT (AND NEVER HAVE) WORKED TOGETHER SUCH THAT THE SEAL IS NOT COMPLETE AND ONCE BROKEN THE TIRE FLATTENS. OR THE TIRES ARE DEFECTIVE AND THE SIDEWALL WEAKENS AND CAUSES LOSS OF AIR AND ULTIMATE DEFLATION. (TIRESIZE: 225/75/R17)
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.
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FAQ
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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.