Curtis! You're alive!!!
I remember that being the side with the tire separation and I wonder if that was the cause or helped form the separation? Get this, though. The right side had the same problem on the same type of Michelin tire on the way to Dallas from ATL. That was two rear Michelin tires that failed in the same way. Then this past wknd, while on a random road trip to explore rural TX (yes, all stereotypes are correct) the RR tire detreaded (don't know if that's a word). I'd post a photo if I had a camera, and Curtis, you'd really find this interesting. While driving at about 50, there was a stronger vibration from the back that came on rather suddenly like a broken cord. While looking for Walmarts on my GPS I heard a loud wobbling/banging noise come from the RR. While looking back I saw a large piece of rubber fly though the air only after scratching the side of the car and knocking off the two chrome trime piece in the vicinity. The tire didn't go flat, but was silver because all the treading came off in one piece
It was strange, really... Anyway, nervous that it would blow up in my face I used a long stick and deflated the tire most of the way before going too close to it. Anyways, that was a low quality used tire. It now has two new tires on the rear but I don't want to drive it much and wear out these tires because there's obviously a problem with the suspension. And as Curtis could point out, the front end is also very tired as well. Looks like I need to take the car off the road and do just about everything at once: springs, shocks, b-joints, tie-rods, rear bushings and so on). Grrr... This is irritating....
Sorry for the long ramble. Hope everyone's day is going well.
Regards,
David