Tire Blowout problems of the 2000 Honda Odyssey

I purchased brand new michelin defender tires three weeks ago from a michelin certified auto repair shop. Today we had a catastrophic blow out. . . Consistent with a manufacturer defect. We were driving less than one mile from our home, on a clear day, with no pot holes, or obstacles in the road. We did not hit or run over anything. We were driving less than 30 miles per hour. . . On a clear city street in virginia. The car immediately began to violently shake. . . . It was obvious the tire had a catastrophic failure. We went across the street to merchants tire and auto. The tire had four blow out holes on every single side of this tire. This tire is only 3 weeks old. It has less than 200 miles on it. Michelin refused to warranty this tire. They covered only 50 % of the tire. If I had been driving with my 4 children in the car on the highway. . . We would have been injured. The tire was confiscated (per michelin) by merchants tire and auto.

I have had two uniroyal tiger paw tires blowout while my car was being driven on the interstate. The blowouts occurred approximately 6 weeks apart with about 10,000 miles on the tires. When the first tire blewout my daughter was using the car and the tire store techician said he had never seen anything like that before, but would not say the tire was defective. When the second tire blew, the technician said it was obviously defective and when shown a picture of the first tire said it was defective too. After talking with several people at uniroyal, they replaced the rest of the tires. I have digital photographs of the tires.

While driving, the right real tire suddently blew out.

While driving, the right real tire suddently blew out. (tiresize: p215/65r16).

While driving the passenger side tire blewout, prior to the blowout the tires had been properly checked and rotated on several occasions (firestone affinity p215/65r16). Nlm.

Tire blewout while driving (michelin symmetry p215-65r16). Nlm.