3 week old tyre blow out... What can I do?

So 3 weeks ago I replace my 2 rear tyres and today travelling at >50km/h one of them blew out and popped right off the bead. I noticed that there was a tear on the outside wall about 5mm in size starting from the rim travelling outwards.

Could this be..

a) a manufacturing fault

b) an installation error caused the tear and the problem was just waiting to happen?

I refuse to accept I ran over something as the positioning of the tear makes it essentially impossible to have been caused by a foreign object. There is also no sign of any other penetrated areas on the tyre.

Not sure what sort of legal warranty can be held on a tyre but I'm a bit annoyed...

***these are el cheapo tyres (evergreen), they were fitted as my previous ones were completely bald and I plan on buying a set of rims and decent tyres later this year***

On a rear rim? I assure you I have not curbed these rims in my ownership. Although I understand how fishy it makes it look.

That scuff/ding from blowout?

I say get your haka face out of the wardrobe and go see them. Tell em along with a new tyre you want the rim repaired.

Nah, the scuff is from the previous owner. But with the tyre setup on there it's pretty much impossible for me to curb that part of the rim as it sits inside the tyre level. It'd be like curbing the inner most point on a concave 18x9 rim, you just can't do it unless you try really hard. The inner rim is completely stuffed though cause the tyre popped off the bead so it was grinding straight on the seal until I stopped.

Who the tyres thro? I say stick it up them. That shouldnt happen chinese or not.

Magic Tyres. Only cause they were the cheapest i could find to avoid a green sticker for the next few months.

Be bloody hard to find another one of those wheels too. Go see them its worth a crack. Just dont go in there asking what theyre going to do just go nuts and demand ****. End of the day you bought a tyre that shouldve lasted longer than that and its unsafe. Imagine if you out in front of a logger and that happened.

Yeah pretty gutted... Hopefully it's all repairable and won't cost me... Atleast not the tyre hopefully. It looks pretty foul on the space saver right now

its not just me that sees the triangular piece missing out of the rim directly above the "tear"? Looks to me like you drove over something sharp and narrow that was sticking up.

Is this a common result from a puncture?

Yeah thats cool. Just from where I stand, I am the only person who drives it and haven't had it driven by any other people including workshops in that time, it happened on the open road and in my ownership I've never once hit a curb so its all bit funky to me hence I wonder if it was torn on installation and not noticed or perhaps a manufacturing defect. Also no sign of debris on/around the tyre, no sign of any on the road and the curb mark you can see in the picture doesn't actually line up with the damage, just looks that way in photo although it is pretty close.

Its all a bit of a mystery!

That wee bit sticking out is a fitting issue,

I will be the guy that says fitting only 2 tires to an AWD vehicle will cause issues

Is that actually true?

If you zoom on that close pic its rubber not a ding/notch out of the wheel. I thought it was for a start.

Yeah its a torn piece of rubber, not a ding in the wheel.

Poor repair of original damage to rim has resulted in damage to tyre during fitting...tyre fitter should have seen the problem and advised you before fitting tyre..

Had a new tyre fitted this morning, got the rim looked and the rim damage was not the cause of the tear. Seems like pure bad luck pretty much. Fingers crossed it won't happen again in another few weeks.

Free tyre?

Negative... Looks like the visa payment from my last pay doesn't count anymore.

So theyre blaming the failure on you?

Blaming it on a puncture yeah. Which I can understand as it is hard to prove, I'm not super annoyed cause the rim was sweet and got away with that, cheap tyres too but it's been a bit of an inconvenience in general.

Put it this way - I'll be fitting a full set of Falkens or re002s before we trek down to flat-nats that's for sure.

Couldve bought a pair of goodies instead of 3 ****ters in hindsight. Wonderful thing that.