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  1. 7th April 2013, 08:51 AM #21
    Dougal
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    At least I know they look the part.
    I take it you're saving these as snow/winter rubber?

    I am too. My main use for chunkier tyres is getting through the layer of slush and snow melt to get into the real snow. M/T's are generally crap on packed snow and A/T's while better in packed snow fill up going through the mud/slush on the way up.

    These look like the only tyre that's chunky enough for some mud and has the sipes and tread compound required for snow/ice.
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  2. 7th April 2013, 01:09 PM #22
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    I suspect they might wear rather quicky in our summer heat and as I have no reason to use them over summer I may as well use a tyre that lasts longer and is quiet. I am a little concerned that they may be too much of a winter tyre rather than a tough winter touring tyre as they are designed to work very well in ice and slush but rocks too so I'll see how they go.

    Edit: I decided to get on with my purchase of these tyres when I found that Telstra fit these to their utes, in this rural area at least. Talking to a driver he thought they were a great tyre for the use and in response to my question that the ute's stability at speed was no different to his own Pathfinder fitted with normal road tyres. They needed rotating regularly but he put that down to the heavily loaded utes negotiating too many round-abouts on town without any regard to tyre life.
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  3. 16th May 2013, 09:04 PM #23
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    The Duratracs are now on. Yesterday the D4 only just extracted itself up a slight slope from some sticky clay ruts wearing the Yoko AT/S so I took that as the sign to start finding out what the Duratracs are like. The wife thought it was a tractor job however mud'n'ruts and some light stabbing of the accelerator did the job but not without a few going nowhere moments.
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  4. 23rd June 2013, 05:56 PM #24
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    I got mine on too. Some ice and mud/slush but no real snow yet.



    Not on a D3/D4/RRS, but if I had one I'd fit them.
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  5. 23rd June 2013, 09:37 PM #25
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    On my D2 I'm running the LT225/75 16s and have found that they do actually handle very well for a tyre with the aggressive tread these have. They're wearing quite well too incidentally. IIRC I've out almost 30k on them and they'd have lost less than half of their original tread depth. Those kms have been 60/40 road/beach.
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