Goodyear wrangler SRA tire failures: what 140 owner reports say
Every complaint filed with NHTSA against the Goodyear Wrangler SRA, 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
Blowout or sudden deflation appears in 39% of these reports; about 1.9× as often as across all tire complaints. Percentages are shares of the 140 reports filed against the Goodyear Wrangler SRA 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 | 39% | 20% | 1.9× |
| Sidewall failure | 30% | 15% | 2.0× |
| Loss of control, rollover or collision | 13% | 8% | 1.5× |
| Cracking or dry rot | 11% | 9% | 1.2× |
| Bubble or bulge in the tire | 10% | 6% | 1.7× |
| Tread or belt separation | 9% | 13% | 0.6× |
Mileage at failure
95 of these reports state an odometer reading. The middle report is at 12,000 miles, with 8 in 10 falling between 3,500 and 54,635 miles.
In owners' own words
Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA about Goodyear Wrangler SRA. Reports are published by NHTSA as filed and are lightly cleaned here only to remove intake codes.
DRIVING ON PAVEMENT THE AMBIENT TEMP WAS ABOUT 70 DEGREES WITH NO ROAD HAZARDS THE FRONT TIRE EXPLODED STRAIGHT ACROSS THE TREAD. A PIECE OF THE TREAD HIT THE INNER FENDER AND DAMAGED BOTH THE LINER AND THE OUTER FENDER. THE TIRE IS A GOODYEAR WRANGLER THAT CAME STOCK ON THE TRUCK 275/60 R20 DOT # M6YNJB1R2915. THE TIRES HAVE ONLY 3200 MILES ON THIS 2016 TRUCK. THE DEALER WAS CONTACTED WITH NO RESULTS AT THIS TIME.
THE CONTACT OWNS A 2017 RAM 1500 EQUIPPED WITH GOODYEAR WRANGLER SR-A TIRES, SIZE: P275/60R20 (NA). THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE TIRE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER (HEWLETT HOUSE OF TIRES IN HEWLETT, NY) WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE TIRE WAS DEFECTIVE AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE AND OFFERED TO REPLACE THE TIRE. THE CONTACT ALSO NOTICED THAT THE DRIVER'S SIDE AND REAR DRIVER'S SIDE TIRES HAD BULGES. THE DEALER AND THE MANUFACTURER WERE NOT MADE AWARE OF THE BULGE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE AND TIRE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 1,800.... UPDATED 09/20/17 *BF UPDATED 11/2/2017
THE CONTACT OWNS A 2017 RAM 1500 EQUIPPED WITH GOODYEAR WRANGLER TIRES, SIZE: 225/75R16. UPON INSPECTION, THE CONTACT NOTICED THAT BOTH FRONT TIRES HAD SIDEWALL DAMAGE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT TIRE FACILITY WHERE IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS EQUIPPED WITH INCORRECT TIRES. THE FACILITY DECLINED TO SERVICE THE TIRES. THE MANUFACTURER INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THE DEALERS WERE INSTRUCTED NOT TO INSTALL THOSE TIRES ON THE VEHICLE. THE MANUFACTURER ALSO INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THEY WOULD NOT ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR REPLACING THE TIRES DUE TO A NON-FACTORY DEALER INSTALLING THE TIRES. UPON CONTACTING AN UNKNOWN DEALER, THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT GOODYEAR HAD APPROVED THE TIRE INSTALLATION. THE TIRE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 20,300. THE VEHICLE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN.
THE CONTACT OWNS A 2002 FORD F-150 EQUIPPED WITH GOODYEAR WRANGLER SR-A TIRES, SIZE: P255/70R16 (NA). UPON INSPECTING THE TIRES, THE CONTACT NOTICED THAT THE TREAD WAS CRACKED ON ALL FOUR TIRES. THE FAILURE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER AND DEALER WERE NOT NOTIFIED. THE VIN AND TIRE FAILURE MILEAGE WERE NOT AVAILABLE. THE VEHICLE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 1,200.
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; 1.9× the corpus rate here; see which other tires over-index
- Sidewall failure; 2.0× the corpus rate here; see which other tires over-index
- Loss of control, rollover or collision; 1.5× the corpus rate here; see which other tires over-index
- Goodyear Eagle; 308 reports
- Goodyear Wrangler; 286 reports
- Goodyear Eagle Rs-a; 181 reports
- Goodyear Marathon; 115 reports
- Goodyear Eagle LS-2; 88 reports
- Goodyear Marathon ST; 56 reports
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.