[B_and_D]

How fast were you going? It seems that you got a lot of damage from the blowout. We had one too on that side, but I only had to patch up a small hole behind the wheelwell. We keep our speed down and have made the wheelwell conversion, also travel dry (no water) and as light as possible. We bought our Marathons in '04, maybe they were the last of the good ones. Seems that many of the posts that are reporting tire failure are for tires manufactured after that date.