Sometimes searching ends up being a multi day reading of multiple threads going into hundreds of posts each because information is put out in bits. For example the coding thread, took a long ass time for me to read through the thread end to end and there are a lot of wasted posts in there that you have to filter out. Some forums end up having a sticky at the top that only admins of the particular category have access to which condenses the cliff notes of a thread to a single post. Members collate the info and summarize it for the post. Makes it a whole lot easier to skim through long threads about something and acts as some sort of index.
Oh and those 1200 mile service posts? Many forums would have just deleted them
And I do thank the OP for asking the question about these tires and James for doing the heavy lifting in pointing out the relevant info.