Just a comment on the value of posts in which different manufacturers are hailed or hung, I did a lot of online checking around before buying my new tires and it seems that what is really important is not so much who made the tire as it is how was the tire treated in use by the buyer. No tires last long if:
1. Driven over potholes and/or sharp debris in the road.
2. Driven under-inflated.
3. Not balanced.
4. Left without movement for months on end (outside or inside storage doesn't change this).
5. Driven in desert conditions of heat.
6. Driven with the TM overweight for tire specifications.
7. Stored on pavement directly and/or in Sun without cover.
8. Store sold tire that was out of date already.
Other factors, of course, apply, but this is probably enough to indicate that any poster who says a particular manufacturer is bad, or good, should be required to swear that they followed all good habits in the treatment of the tire. Just my thoughts and I am not saying that there really aren't some bad tires being manufactured.
