Goodyear eagle LS-2 tire failures: what 88 owner reports say

Every complaint filed with NHTSA against the Goodyear Eagle LS-2, 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

88Written owner reports

1Reported injuries

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

What owners described

Bubble or bulge in the tire appears in 51% of these reports; about 8.7× as often as across all tire complaints. Percentages are shares of the 88 reports filed against the Goodyear Eagle LS-2 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
Bubble or bulge in the tire	51%	6%	8.7×
Sidewall failure	50%	15%	3.4×
Blowout or sudden deflation	14%	20%	0.7×
Cracking or dry rot	8%	9%	0.9×
Loss of control, rollover or collision	6%	8%	0.7×
Tread or belt separation	2%	13%	0.2×

Mileage at failure

45 of these reports state an odometer reading. The middle report is at 12,000 miles, with 8 in 10 falling between 5,000 and 34,000 miles.

In owners' own words

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA about Goodyear Eagle LS-2. Reports are published by NHTSA as filed and are lightly cleaned here only to remove intake codes.

BMW 550XI, NORMAL DRIVING, TIRE PRESSURE INDICATOR CAME ON, CAR BECAME UNSTABLE. PARKED VEHICLE AND OBSERVED LARGE BUBBLE IN FRONT RIGHT TIRE SIDEWALL HAD SPLIT, CAUSING RAPID DEFLATION. NO ROAD HAZARDS WERE INVOLVED, MECHANIC STATES THAT THESE TIRES GET SIDEWALL BUBBLES ALL THE TIME.

NHTSA complaint 1000401

ALL 4 TIRES SHOWED TREAD SEPARATION WITH MILEAGE BETWEEN 34000 AND 49000 MILES. THE TREAD BUBBLED UP ON THE INSIDE TREAD EDGE OF ALL TIRES. I HAD 3 FLAT TIRES DUE TO THIS DEFECT. GOODYEAR ONLY OFFERED WHAT THEY CALLED "GOOD WILL" REPLACEMENT AT ABOUT HALF PRICE. I PAID TO HAVE THE FIRST 2 REPLACE ON 02/16/2013 AND 11/04/2013. BOTH OF THESE TIRES WENT DOWN AFTER HIGHWAY DRIVING. ON 11/19/2013 I ROTATED THE TIRES AND NOTICED THE REMAINING 2 ORIGINAL TIRES WERE SHOWING SIGNS OF SEPARATION ON THE INSIDE EDGE OF THE TREAD. CONTACTED GOODYEAR AND THEY WOULD ONLY DISCOUNT THEM BY HALF AFTER HAVING 4 OUT OF 4 TIRES GO BAD. I LEFT THE GOODYEAR STORE AND AM HAVING 4 MICHELIN TIRES PUT ON. I THINK GOODYEAR SHOULD REFUND ME WHAT THE FIRST 2 TIRES COST ME AND THEY CAN HAVE THEM BACK. I DON'T THINK THESE TIRES SHOULD BE ON THE ROAD THEY ARE NOT SAFE.

NHTSA complaint 1022901

I BOUGHT A 2012 IMPALA.2 DAYS AFTER I BOUGHT IT FROM DEALER HAD TIRE GO DOWN FROM BUBBLE ON SIDEWALL. A MONTH LATER SAME THING. HAD BLOW OUT WITH 3 COUPLE DAYS AGO. WENT AND BOUGHT NEW SET AND FOUND OUT 4TH TIRE HAD BUBBLE.NOW I HATE I BOUGHT ANOTHER SET OF GOODYEAR EAGLE LS2. HOW CAN I GET MY MONEY BACK K FROM GOODYEAR OR NEW TIRES

NHTSA complaint 1098504

I WORK IN A TIRE SHOP AND IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS I HAVE HAD TWO 2013 IMPALA LT'S COME IN WITH PARTIALLY SEPARATED TIRES. BOTH WERE GOODYEAR EAGLE LS2'S, SAME SIZE, AND SAME DOT NUMBER. SEPARATION WAS IDENTICAL ON BOTH VEHICLES.CUSTOMERS REPORTED THAT THEIR TIRE HAD A SLOW LEAK IN BOTH CASES. UPON CHECKING THE TIRE I NOTICED BOTH TIRES HAD UNEVEN WEAR AND WERE SEPARATED ON THE SHOULDER. TIRES WERE BOTH REPLACED AS A RESULT OF THE PARTIAL SEPARATION.

NHTSA complaint 1142802

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

Bubble or bulge in the tire; 8.7× the corpus rate here; see which other tires over-index
Sidewall failure; 3.4× the corpus rate here; see which other tires over-index
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FAQ

What goes wrong with Goodyear Eagle LS-2 tires?

Across 88 written complaints, the most common description is bubble or bulge in the tire, in 51% of reports; about 8.7× as often as across all tire complaints. A single report can describe more than one problem.

Is the Goodyear Eagle LS-2 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 Goodyear Eagle LS-2 tires fail?

Of the owners who stated an odometer reading, the middle report is at 12,000 miles, with 8 in 10 between 5,000 and 34,000 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.