If you're driving on tires that need replacing, you might want to take Nathan Plagens' advice.
By the time he found out he was driving on recalled Firestone tires, the waiting list to get replacements put 250 people in front of him.
In Miami, CBS News Correspondent Bobbi Harley says the delay left Plagens and his tires on the road, and just days later, one of them shredded, rolling his Ford Explorer over three times.
"If anybody is driving on these tires, change them, pay the money; it’s not worth going through this," advises Plagens.
For the company that boasts it has produced "America’s tires since 1900", Firestones have been hard to come by in recent weeks.
Linked to dozens of deaths, the recall of 6.5 million of those tires is making replacement tires of any brand hard to find.
Orlando Hidalgo of Balado National Tires says he can't keep a supply of 15-inch tires. "There’s not enough tires in the market right now that size."
CBS News has learned Firestone’s chief competitors can’t even keep up, with some pumping up production of their own tires.
Goodyear will increase its output 500 percent, Michelen, 200 percent, and Cooper Tire will produce 30 percent more tires than usual.
And as people go through the replacement process and all of the mental anguish that goes along with it, what are they thinking about Firestone?
Analyst David Bradley of J.P. Morgan paints a gloomy picture. "Consumers in their minds will start to associate Firestone with accidents, blowouts, problems— it’s going to be a lot harder for them to sell tires in the foreseeable future."
It took Iris Diaz a week to find replacements for her recalled tires, and when she did, they weren’t Firestones.
"I’m just having them changed. I’m not running any risks, I’ve got two children, no risks."
Firestone admits a shortage of tires is still a problem. In fact, it has gotten so bad, the company’s even selling its competitors' tires out of its own stores, hoping to complete the recall by next spring and maybe winning back some consumer confidence.