D4 19inch COOPER Zeon LTZ 255 55 19

Hi Michael
I returned a few months ago from Chambers Pillar and I can assure you the track will rip the Goodyears to shreds as there are a lot of stones as well as sand.
The road to Maryvale Station is not too bad but very stoney in places but when you leave Maryvale is where the track gets bad.
I bought a set of Cooper LTZ (19") and used them for the trip and afterwards put the Goodyear back on for the bitumen trips.
I have not travelled on the Oodnadatta track but I have heard it is a tyre shredder; look up the Pink Roadhouse site for further info.
Cheers, Graeme (The other one)

Thanks Graeme (The Other One)
Sounds like a sensible strategy as I will no doubt be buying a full set to replace the GYears anyway.:)

Thanks again Graeme (and everyone else). Best quote I can get in Canberra is $475 fitted etc each for 5 tyres (small market). Will also get an extra tyre to take away as a second spare. Managed to get them to throw in a re-fitting of the GYears when I return. Both suppliers I spoke with initially said that the Coopers LTZ didn't come in 19" but thanks to this thread I was able to persevere and once they looked past their outdated hard copy information they were able to supply. Sounds like Coopers still have some marketing to do with the suppliers.

Cheers
Michael

MY12 D4 SE

Has anyone got the dealers to fit the 19" Coopers before delivery? If so, how much, if anything, extra were you charged?

I'm tossing between getting it all done for convenience vs driving down the road and waiting for them to be changed. Also not sure if I'd get a credit for the 4 tyres if I do the drive.

Waiting on a price for this myself (must be patient, only been waiting a week).

Maybe our friend could do a deal on 10.

Cheers,
Jon

Change over for me was $700 by the tyre place the dealer dealt with. They are still classed as not new tyres, as they have still be driven on.

I decided to keep the factory tyres and rims, for around town and purchase better tyres (bigger) and GOE rims.

Brett...

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Originally Posted by jon3950

Waiting on a price for this myself (must be patient, only been waiting a week).

Maybe our friend could do a deal on 10.

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Good idea! I think you'll get yours a few weeks before I do, and seeing as we were both stuffed around, he might come to the party, and do the change-over for nix. Hence my asking around so I get an idea if the price is good or not.

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Originally Posted by discotwinturbo

Change over for me was $700 by the tyre place the dealer dealt with.

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That's still pretty good, rather than paying over $2000 for a complete new set.

I had my OEM tyres changed over to GG AT's on delivery of the D4 and was considerably less out of pocket

Interestingly the OEM wranglers are considerably more expensive than either the Coopers or GG's.

When I bought the Prado I was only $500.00 out of pocket for the MT ATZ's in a bigger size.

Cheers

Some interesting comments on here. FWiW, I have observed that the most popular tyre on stations around the Strezlecki, Birdsville,Oodnadatta areas is the Goodyear Wrangler. Now these cockies will drop anything like a hot potato if its heard to be no good. Some of them have a lot of vehicles and they hate changing tyres.....thats why you will never see Coopers out there. Coopers beer, yes, but not rubber. Next time any of you are in an outback pub, ask the locals about tyres.....you'll get some interesting replies about brands, sizes and operating pressures.....as I said, they hate changing them so the bush telegraph puts the word around on whats good.