Thread: Conversation with my wife on new tyres

Congrats. She's a keeper.

You have to appreciate a significant other that recognizes the infectious beauty that defenders have. And the fact that it can take over.

What about a 50/50 compromise? AT's (especially the BFG AT) are a very good style of tyre. Quieter than a MT also.

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So BFG Km2's it is then

I was thinking on the way home form a 4x4 park the other day, as I worked the Defer up to 90km/h on a dirt road. Tyres you can trust, that cost a bit are worth more then their weight in gold. My KM's have survived two trips to the desert and surrounding areas, many days at the beach, 4x4 parks, weekend off road camping, all at low pressures with no mercy. Then driven as a daily driver around the city with a good load. Then driven for hours on highways.

Tuff strong tyres of any persuasion are worth every cent I feel. Have noticed however, some Chinese tyres spec wise are very similar to the more expansive US made tyres, but half the price. Not sure if I'm there yet. The old Landy does't seem to go well with unexpected blow outs.

Good to see, actually great to see the wife understands. Well, hopefully more than jus cosmetically.

I'd say you were lucky twice over.

She chooses to drive a Defender

I do indeed have the great luck to have an unusually Land Rover compatible wife. When we first got married she was interested in panel work and did a 6 month panel beating course - and hand made a series three door frame including rolling the alloy skin from scratch, it's a perfect match to the existing doors!

In fact she made me buy a county just recently because I'd been eyeing it off for a few years.

Back to the tyres. Her defender has BFG MT's on it at the moment. The older style with the tread up the side wall - so not the really old style. I must admit I'm not very happy with these, they are 4 years old now, with perhaps 40,000 on them. But the sidewalls have started cracking around the tread, and they have worn into a sawtooth pattern. It's also lost chunks of tread from jsut gentle dirt roads. The previous Coopers STT's also wore to a sawtooth pattern - but I got 80,000 out of those, and the sidewalls had no cracks. All of the BFG MT's I've owned over the years have had the cracks around the tread blocks, so I wonder if the KM2's will do this too?

43,000km on my KM2's (3.5 years) and still looks almost new.

No sidewall cracking at all and no lug throwing or chipping either. I've lived in Karratha, WA for 14 months where the car saw daily gravel driving and LOTS of rock crawling.

Toughest tyres I've ever owned...

Cheers,

Lou

Originally Posted by BilboBoggles

Back to the tyres. Her defender has BFG MT's on it at the moment. The older style with the tread up the side wall - so not the really old style. I must admit I'm not very happy with these, they are 4 years old now, with perhaps 40,000 on them. But the sidewalls have started cracking around the tread, and they have worn into a sawtooth pattern. It's also lost chunks of tread from jsut gentle dirt roads. The previous Coopers STT's also wore to a sawtooth pattern - but I got 80,000 out of those, and the sidewalls had no cracks. All of the BFG MT's I've owned over the years have had the cracks around the tread blocks, so I wonder if the KM2's will do this too?

Originally Posted by Loubrey

43,000km on my KM2's (3.5 years) and still looks almost new.

No sidewall cracking at all and no lug throwing or chipping either. I've lived in Karratha, WA for 14 months where the car saw daily gravel driving and LOTS of rock crawling.

Toughest tyres I've ever owned...

Cheers,

Lou

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.