Thread: Conversation with my wife on new tyres

Originally Posted by voltron

Are there any compromises with these tyres Lou. I'm all for tough tyres but not if I need to except more Defender quirks. I guess my biggest issue is wet bitchumen roads. If there is not compromise there then I might seriously look at these.

P.S I am a tyre virgin.

I'd argue that there are limited compromises associated with running the KM2 over something like the A/T - they're very quiet and have good wet and dry bitumen grip for what they are.

Can be a pig to balance out though...

I've had BFG AT's which are ok, but I'd prefere my KM2's a lot more. My current KM2's have a bit of saw toothing at 50K. I's say 2/3 warn from useful off road lug grip. 50% warn if you want to extract the most from the tyres and still be legal but non effective.
To me they seem a great all rounder. The ware well, handle wet roads well, and go great off road, and tuff as nails.
I have two tyres with cuts in the floor of the tread from wrong pressures on harsh gravel roads. These two also have rips in the lug base from bottoming out on an alloy tray. The lugs grabbed the trays ribs so something had to give but the tyres still keep going.
The other two have the odd small cuts, but no cracking or chipping.

For what it's worth, if I didn't go muds i'd buy the old Continental General Grabber. Boring to look to, but will do you proud with everything bar mud. Have a mate who goes just about every where I have, and gets 80K out of them easy.