Thread: Tyres

My Defender still has the original General Grabber TRs on it after 77,000 kms and they still have quite a lot of tread. I don't know how much they originally had so I can't estimate how much of the original is left. The TRs are ATs and LT but the tread is quite road oriented. I don't think they are available here so I'll have to make a change when replacing them. Looking at Hankook ATs, which I recently fitted to our campet trailer, or Pirelli Scorpions, in the standard 235/85/16.

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Originally Posted by Beery

7.50/R16 Michelin XZL.
Great in the scrub and to my surprise, no nasty surprises on road. Wet or dry, they are predictable. As long as you understand what sort of tyre you're driving on and dont carry on like a boy racer.

The noise is also surprisingly low for such an aggressive tread. I mainly put this down to the brand that is on them.

Wear is reportedly not the greatest, I'll be happy to get 50,000 - 60,000km out of them. Depends on use of course.

I think they'll only go on the steel wheels though.

Sadly that's correct there is one place in Perth that would put them on my allows but no one else would so have had to rule them out

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I'm running various tyres on a few Utes at the moment, 750.16 Michelin on a 6x6, 2 sets of Micky Ts on the 130s, a set of BFG mud terrains on a 110 ute and a set of general grabbers on another 130.. So far the Mickey THompsons have been the pick, 30-50k out if the Michelin and BFG but the surprise package has been the general grabbers.. Good all terrain tread and good wear. We run at GVM on our defenders, fast windy bitumen, fire trails from rocks to clay to mud..and open cleared forestry blocks with sharp stumps

Thanks everyone,

Me thinking tyres would be easy have left them to the last week or so of preparation as I still had/have about 40% tread on the BFG's I am running already.

Sadly that is not the case. In the standard size of 235/85/16 (save me buying extra spare rubber there is now officially (from the national sales rep) no BFG AT KO2 in the country until some time in late August except what you can find sitting on shelves.

Second choice was the Bridgestone Kevlar AT monsters and again in WA none in my size and without adding $80 a corner for shipping to come from Sydney before Wednesday.

After discussions with people working out where we are going and a couple of peeps and reading whats on here I have gone for the Toyo tyres. 1 long wearing, 2 huge amounts of sidewall protection, 2 a warranty to send replacements ANYWHERE in WA, NT or SA if I puncture within 50,000km free and finally a discount that ended up with me paying less than 1grand for all four, plus moving current rubber around to spare wheels and an alignment. $ is not everything but damn at that price and with that assurance of a new tyre ANYWHERE I just had to trial them.

I am going to keep this thread up just so I can post pics of the tyres as they degrade and comment on general handling etc for others in the future.

So initial impression

Fair amount of road noise and definitely more than the BFG's AT once they had worn in but not much more than when they were new. Given the weather in Perth at the moment it wont be long before the first wet drive occurs. No issues on freeway or cornering on my hour long 4 psi drive.

Fitted at 40Psi front and rear. I am now at 36Psi front and 38Psi rear and will do another 4Psi drive on Monday to see how the new pressures go.

Originally Posted by Jesters Td5

So initial impression

Fair amount of road noise and definitely more than the BFG's AT once they had worn in but not much more than when they were new. Given the weather in Perth at the moment it wont be long before the first wet drive occurs. No issues on freeway or cornering on my hour long 4 psi drive.

Fitted at 40Psi front and rear. I am now at 36Psi front and 38Psi rear and will do another 4Psi drive on Monday to see how the new pressures go.

Those are about the pressures I run my Toyo M55's at.
When I am towing the camper (150kg ball weight) and the long range tank and water tank full the rears go up to 45 psi.
They do tend to bag out a bit under increased weight.

Cheers.

Thanks mate, will keep that in mind. Will be doing 4 Psi runs every few days until in am happy and then will be doing it again once loaded and first time on soft stuff etc etc

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Out of interest what's your cold pressures when on the red dirt roads? Without the camper (if you ever do that) just as a starting guesstimate, otherwise I am going with old faithful 20/22

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