Thats true I bought 4 tires from walmart maybe 8 years ago and about years later i needed new break lines on my car and my mechenic pointed out to me that 1 tire was 11 yrs old and another was 7 yrs old He showed me how to read the date code on a tire. I went back to complain and they would not...
I have been running Cooper everlution without studs for the past 4 years on a 03 avalon and have never had a problem I swear I could a plow on on do driveways with it The tires have about 25.000 on them and I can get another year out of them easily