Another blown tire!

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It would be very valuable if all of the people who have recently had blown tires would list the brand of tires that was involved so that these can be avoided.

The issue of tire quality depends on the company's quality control standards and procedures and whether they really enforce them.  Major brands probably have better quality control, but that is not a sure thing.  Off brand cheap tires likely have poorer quality control and use marginal materials, but that is not always the case.

Hitting objects in the road can damage a tire but sometimes it takes several thousand miles before the damage results in a catastrophic tire failure.  For example, hitting a hole or a foreign object in the road can damage the bond between the plies of the tire and eventually that tire bruise will lead to a blow out.  No one is likely to have a memory of the object being hit as it was months, maybe longer, before the failure.  To analogize to our own bodies, we often see a bruise or small cut and have no recollection of any impact or injury, but the proof that it happened is in the result.