as ive said in many previous threads when this has come up,in my humble opinion i try to usually go for the middle brands,i had a michellin on my rears when i first got the car and the fronts needed changing went to the local tyre place and ended up buying all four because on the rear ones the side walls had all cracked through age it broke my heart and wallet because there was sod all wrong with the tread at all,so was having them fitted a good way of keeping motoring costs down or would it have been better just going for the cheaper alternativs?coz i certainly didnt get the best out of the michellins. i was always under the impression that all tyres are inspected and will do exactly what it says on the tin? so if a tyre is rated to speed at 125mph and it blows at 70 then you have a claim against the manufacturer(if your still alive that is)but you get what im on about(i hope).