Thread: D4 19inch COOPER Zeon LTZ 255 55 19

The dura tracks look great... But is this a grey import?

They could be, but I don't think so from tyresales . They are usually ligit. Though I have ordered many grey import sets through Tempe tyres etc without issue.

Are definately available in Aus, we just purchased 18 tyres this week.
Looks good, little noisier than std but to be expected. Great in the wet.

Best price I can get Duratrac for in the ACT is $520 a corner
Is this reasonable?

$431 each at tyresales right now. Limited stock apparently,
http://www.tyresales.com.au/buy/tyre...R19/106594?q=4

Thanks I'll chase them up

I bought a set of 5 of these to do a Simpson Desert trip crossing both the French line and Madigan Lines the total trip was 5600kms. The tyres were great in the desert crossing both sand and gibber plains at speed with ease and no problems being the only member of the group not to get a puncture. The problems occurred on the way home when I had two tyres get sidewall damage and it also resulted two damaged rims one on a dirt road section and the other going over the bridge at Robinvale. I found another set of rims and replaced both tyres and have done approximately 1500kms on them. This weekend I went 4 wheel driving in the Victorian high country, my first trip out since the desert trip, again the tyres preformed brilliantly on the tracks coping with the rocks with no problems but once back on the dirt road to come home I wound up with two more tyres with damaged sidewalls both on the same side and at the same time, one was one of my original set the other was one of the newer ones. I'm now looking round for a new supplier as I'll be no longer getting Cooper tyres. At $418 each it getting to expensive to keep replacing them and Coopers don't include sidewall damage under their warranty. Note I used to run Coopers on all my previous 4 wheel drives and never had a problem. Its obvious to me now that the zeon LTZs tyres are not up to our dirt roads.

It sounds like you are hitting things at speed resulting in damage to the sidewalls and rims, this is hardly the tires fault. The 255 55 19 tires don't have much sidewall. The only way to prevent this kind of damage is to slow down or get a tire with more sidewall height.

Getting something with more sidewall is a problem for 19" rims and you may need to get the GOE 18" rims and run either 265 60 18 or 265 65 18 tires if you want to prevent this type of damage.