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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
Sorry but I think the wiki article supports my statement.
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It does support your statement, and the article also agrees with the recall letter we received. We had a '96 Exploder as our family car that we bought new. My dad always kept the car serviced "by the book" and wondered about the low tire pressure, but maintained it anyway. Our first tire came apart 7000 miles into ownership, the second, a couple thousand miles later. Had the tires changed to Michelins (that outlived the car) and kept them inflated to 30PSI. Part of the recall was to affix a new door sticker with tire pressures at 30PSI.
The laughable part is that the recall letter that came out in late 2000 offered a free replacement set of tires if the original Firestone turds were still fitted, or something like $50 towards the replacement cost if the owner had already replaced them. Yeah, sure, like those crappy tires would still be installed 5+ years later. LOL!
Don't forget about the multiple recalls on the '95/96 Exploders with their torsion bar front suspension. During cold weather and hard cornering, they were known to snap. Only in northern climates would they replace them, so we were stuck with the stock ones that sagged to the point the front wheels splayed out, even with the adjusters at full rotation. POS turd of a car only made it 71,800 miles before the garbage tranny died and we finally unloaded that nightmare of a vehicle.