Thread: OEM Wrangler 19"ers - too many punctures

[QUOTE=bbyer;1469013]I guess the hole has to be somewhere, but thru a lug suggests some sort of point standing up. I suppose it was a piece of sharp rock but the Kevlar belt is supposed to stop that. I hope the HP disease is not spreading throughout the Goodyear tyre line!
Not sure if the disease is spreading, but it appears kevlar is not a 100% immunisation!
I didn't have much luck with machines this Easter as I also managed to sink a Jetski

Originally Posted by pjvdl

Well after the last week, I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment that the OEM tyres are not good for punctures after some wear. We have just finished a trip to the Bendleby Ranges in the Southern Flinders ranges and punctured three of the OEM Goodyear Wranglers:

- 1 on bitumen with a 3" nail (this mysteriously appeared after we stopped in Clare for lunch and I noticed a few young locals hanging around the car ). I only noticed it when I lost the back-end of the car going around a sweeping corner at 110km/h towing a trailer. Luckily I caught it in time, so this one is repairable
- 1 on dirt road. Unfortunately, this was my fault. I was still running high-load, bitumen tyre pressures (42 PSI on rear) after going from bitumen to high speed dirt roads. This one wasn't repairable because I must have run on it for a while before noticing it. In fact, I must have been quite some time, as I only noticed it when the suspension went into limp mode - I little scary until I worked out what the problem was!
- 1 through the sidewall on a slow rough, rocky creek bed. Again, not repairable.

Thank goodness I has invested in a tyre repair kit and good compressor. What a great piece of kit! I used this kit to temporarily repair two of the tyres while still on the car! This was enough to get us home to Adelaide safely.

The tyres had 11k on them and were roughly 30 - 40% worn by my estimate. By way of comparison, we did this same trip last year on new tyres and didn't have any problems. Maybe we just got lucky last time, but they certainly don't seem to perform as well once they have a few kms on them.

Needless to say, I am in the process of following others' leads and replacing them with something else. I am also leaning towards the Pirelli Scorpion ATRs, as we do 95% road and only 5% offroad.

Mate I wouldn't be beating yourself up over the pressure, I think it's more about the tyre.

....on a previous trip (when the tyres were new) I drove all over the area where I recently got the puntures, with fully loaded placard pressures, with no issue at all.

This time round, I was operating at normal pressures, with varying loads. The newer tyres on the front were completely unmarked, the worn ones got the flats.

If you have the time, look at Tirerack....massive...and I mean massive saving!

Cheers,

Kev.