Gday Chris.
I took my 110 on the big lap in 2016. Had the Wrangler AT’s on when I left already with about 45k kms on and added 20k+ getting to Darwin the long way.
In Darwin, the tyre shop had cut a Dura Trac, AT and MT all in the Wrangler range in half.
AT and MT have Kevlar side walls and belts.
Dura Trac do not.
Dura Trac have much thinner sidewalls too and the shop in Darwin said they had had quite a few come back with sidewall tears.
And yes, I thought that Kevlar might be gimmicky too, however; I drove on some very corrugated roads on those AT’s in central Aust and Southern WA, then on the sharp limestone over the range at Ningaloo with tyres 80% worn. 2 cars I was with tore sidewalls out of virtually new tyres there! (BFG’s and Coopers
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Then I drove them up the GRR and through remote NT a fair bit & eventually to Darwin where the AT’s could almost have passed for slicks. They had huge chunks out of them, big slices in the sidewalls but only one flat (from a tech screw in the river going into El Questro station) that I plugged and carried on.
Needless to say, I went the MT’s with the Kevlar and did not have a flat for the rest of the lap, nor did I til I sold it.
They say that the super stiff sidewalls can cause issues in cars with monocoque construction but I didn’t notice anything in the 110 & they performed very well in the mud up the Cape and the CREB.
I will buy them for my 130 when my current set wear out for sure.
Before the Wranglers I ran Dunlop Super Grippers and Dunlop Army bar treads for the mud!!
Anyways, that’s my 2 bobs worth
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