My wife and I were driving along I94 and an suddenly and light vibration from the front right tire, and soon after, I say the tire crossing the highway. The whole contact are of the tire rip off the walls of the tire. Completely gone. Only the two outer walls remain attached to the rim. Tires installed by our Jaguar dealer and less than 10,000 miles. Continental contiprocontact 225/45 R17 91H dot P5ty pxh6 serial 50751 077449. Pictures of the failed tire available. Made in Mexico.

- Woodbury, MN, USA

On two separate occasions in 2006 and 2007, oem Continental touring tires 225/45R17 on my 2006 Jaguar X-type sport sedan suffered spontaneous, catastrophic blow out failure under what should have been nominal operating conditions. {I-95, I-495, clear dry pavement, speed below 80 mph]. since those events, remaining tires have exhibited sidewall bulging and other evidence of cord separation. Today (12/26/2008) while visiting safety website, learned of at least 50 similar spontaneous failures of same product, which is also oe tire on Mercedes C300 and BMW 3 series sedans. This seems to be more than coincidence.

- Reston, VA, USA

Continental conti procontact tire - left front 2006 Jaguar sportwagon X type-failed on masspike. Aaa rep observed that tread separated.no road hazard. Replacement purchased and tire described as failure in "workmanship" 20K. Left front failure was identical to right front tire failure 5 weeks B/4.thus 2 failure S at 20K miles and 19K miles. Fortunately going slow or could have been real problem. Replaced 2 tires at almost 200 a piece. One tire in my possession.

- New York, NY, USA