Thread: cooper tyre problems

Originally Posted by Roulston

My son worked at Goodyear in his Gap year and stays friendly. They are doing me a deal, but have never heard of any cooper's failing or otherwise being returned.

They did say there is some grey importing that could result in really old stock hitting the market.

Has anyone heard of problems with STT's or STC's? It seems like most of the problems stated seem to be with ST's.

Tony

The Landcruiser that did the Canning trip with us in June had 1 STT fail with less than 10,000kms from new, after some threads of legal action they replaced it for new and that was before we had even left for the trip..
I must admit that the 2 cars that had them did do very well, but so did the goodyear MTR.

I had 3 of 5 ST fail on my disco with less than 45000kms on them, but because Darwin is not a capital city according to coopers they said bad luck.

Wont get a sale from me ever again...Cant fault my goodyear Wranglers.

Cheers Ean

Just an amusing bit of info...

Out of 80 LV's at our site running Coopers the entire fleet is going in on tray backs and having all the Cooper tyres removed and changed, I believe to Goodyears.

In the meantime we are using hire cars to get to the site!!!!!

I won't be using or recommending them again, I got very poor mileage out of them , and even with 65,000km on my BFG mudders they are still quieter and rounder than the ST's I had at 30,000km


JC

I loved my Mickey Thompsons, same factory as Cooper, better tyre IMO.

Im running Goodyear at the moment and they are brilliant. Never had coopers and never intend on buying them. Im only going off second hand info and maybe it is a case of being anal about tyre pressures etc, but you just hear to many horror stories. Matt

Originally Posted by Ace

I loved my Mickey Thompsons, same factory as Cooper, better tyre IMO.

Im running Goodyear at the moment and they are brilliant. Never had coopers and never intend on buying them. Im only going off second hand info and maybe it is a case of being anal about tyre pressures etc, but you just hear to many horror stories. Matt

Matt

Same umbrella company but...
Totally different factories.

Coopers purchased MT when it came up years ago. But they are run individually.

I've chatted to a few MT workers and they are less than impressed with the QA at other factories.

I would never touch Coopers again. We had them on the work ute in western victoria and had multiple punctures and chipping on the STs fitted to that.
My defender came with STs when I bought it and I have had severe chipping of the tread blocks on both the front and rear, finally resulting in a large section of the tread on one of them de-laminating on a recent highway run. They are only about 70% worn and I am very careful with the pressures.