Defender tyres for WA conditions

A lot of guys in town run GT adventuro's , reasonable tyre at a reasonable price .I ran two sets of them and only got 55,000 out of them , otherwise not a bad all rounder . when I got the FC2's , they were the same price , around $200 each , they will have done 80,000 when I change them soon, and have been faultless. All mileages stated are 4 tyres , not 5 rotated . I bought a new set of tyres at tax time ,to be fitted when required ,but Bob Jane had no stock of FC2's so I got BFG AT's . Even at Bob Jane's exclusive price of $300 I would have gone for the FC2's again .Will see how the BFG's compare .

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Originally Posted by dero

Even at Bob Jane's exclusive price of $300 I would have gone for the FC2's again .

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$300 for the BFG's or the FC2?

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Originally Posted by spudfan

Then again the TR's have over 80,000 kms on them and there is still buckets of thread left on them. Talk about value for money!

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Mine have 65,000km on them and the same - lots of life left. It feels a shame to swop them off, i wonder if they are worth selling as a second set to someone ...

FC2's were $310 when I asked , BFG AT's cost $265

I bought BFG AT's in Alice for $250 after my Tallawana track debarcle. Pat

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Originally Posted by justinc

yes the M55 in 255 are only available overseas, you can order them in especially IIRC, but why buy a tyre in a size that you can't replace easily????:confused:

i am very happy with mine in 235/85. Gearing is just right when towing in 4th, too. The 255/85 BFG Muds I had were a slight overgeared.


JC

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I agree about the gearing thing, first too tall and 5th sometimes is wrong. Having the odometer agree with the GPS (2 km out in 1000 km) is nice though. We just got in last night after our Canning trip of 10500 km. The Maxxis 752s on the rear wore hard (weight and pressure issue) but no other problems. The other vehicles were a 1984 Tojo HJ47, on Dunlop Roadgrippers and a 2004 100 series on MTRs. The Roadgrippers seemed to wear the least but was the only vehicle to experience a flat tyre, that's what happens when you run over the base of a mulga bush, and would be no different on the other tyres. It was easily replaced in Leonora with a secondhand on a Saturday morning.
Vehicle problems though, well that was mostly my Landy playing up, Alternator seized after well 48, rear disc dust cover broke off and jammed in the wheel, front swaybar link fell off, constantly battling rear diff coverplate leak. In fact I ended up pulling the rear axles and propshaft out at Tjukayirrila and drove the last 5000 km on the front diff.
The others almost had me talked into buying a Toyota.:o

Still haven’t made a final decision on this :rolleyes: , but I did just get back from an African trip with plenty of rough driving/roads and this has me convinced on the popularity/capability of the BFG A/T’s – a lot of cars have them fitted.

It seems that this tyre isn’t made in 255/85 though, which would have provided slightly more ground clearance and width than my 235/85’s.

I might go 265/75, gives me more width at least. Bob Jane here in WA want $355ea…

Yeah , I went with 33 10.5 15 AT's they work well & $100 cheaper .
Don't know why the 16's are dearer , they make 1000's of them & can't see how they would have any more material in them .

Edit that should read 31 10.5 15

I must admit I am disappointed in my recent bfg mt's. In the past, I always used bfg, but found that i had many many issues with them going out of round, or the carcass cracking around the tread. That was 10 - 15 years ago. I the started buying new defenders which came with gg, and those were excellent. They just wore out, no cracking or any other diseases. At the end of their very long life, I went Cooper stt. I recently changed back to a recent set of bfg mt, thinking perhaps the newer model would be better now. But no, the new ones after 40kk have cracked sidewalls, and the tread blocks are being chewed up by the gravel on my driveways...