Thread: 18" Compomotive Wheels

travelling over the years to many outback places, bloopers would have to be the most disliked brand with the most issues in respect to most other brands.


Never forget when my Daughter and I walked into the Mungarennie Hotel on the Birdsville track, three vehicles rolled up 2 with failed bloopers. The Hotel owner at the time stated, the biggest complaint is the sustainability of bloopers, have seen some many fail.


He did a follow-up over time with people passing through, and the one issue is, blooper voids warranty if the pressure is not maintained to their acceptable PSI which apparently is way to high for the driving conditions. they do not accept any liability on tyre failure if the owner stated the pressure was dropped to 28-32 to suit road driving conditions.


I met one of the guys at the hotel after looking at his tyre and a huge hole in his window, the comment was, yes the hole came from the mate's vehicle in front, is pressure was 45psi, as he was told that the type of pressure needed to stay within the blooper guidelines.


Have decided to take Tombie's advice and buy 6 D697 donuts.... Maybe KO2's next round.


Regards




Gerald

I had a set on my D2,first and last time I would buy that brand.The tread blocks were starting to crack off after 1 serious off-road trip that had plenty of rock.Dealer wouldnt honour any warranty as I was a country driver.Thier warrantys are only for city drivers.They dont tell you that when you are buying them
Andrew

Originally Posted by rar110

That trip is on my list.

A really great trip,but you do need about 4 weeks minimum..

Gents,

Just back on the issue of size.....

265/65, a bit of rubbing from other posts, now will these hard lock stops stop this. It's easy turning down some aluminium spaces.

Or is the best choice lowest risk 265/60. EAS failure and if you are on the stops at least there is no rubbing as a stock set-up and you can at least have forward motion without serious damage around the wheel arch?

The alternative is 65's and run rods or recalibrate EAS to say +20mm as the new default and live with re-alignment and other potential service issues after a flash update and default.

Just answered my own question!

Still set on Tobie's advice, just go with D697, the safest proven outcome.


Regards

Gerald

Originally Posted by VK3GJM

Just answered my own question!

The best way to get a sensible answer Gerald

Cheers,
Scott

Btw, I went D697 in 60's. Done only 14k so far. They look almost new & that includes to the cape & back. So not the most seriously tested yet but very good so far.

Originally Posted by l00kin4

Sorry if I'm straying off topic a bit...

Gerald,

I'll be going through this process too (although maybe with Tombie's 18" wheels if that comes to fruition) - any reason you're not considering the Bridgestone D697's along with the BFG's?

Just interested in as many opinions as I can get.

David

I'm glad I asked that question!

If you google "(ooper ST delamination" (change to the correct wording) and click on the first link, you'll see what happened to me. This is however almost 10 years ago, but as I would not use the brand again I have no idea if they have improved at all.

At the last minesite I was working on before moving to a city based position, our client's vehicles were all fitted with bloopers at the commencement of the project, and for some months thereafter.

Admittedly this was up at Nullagine, where the conditions are pretty harsh and the rocks on the tracks are generally very hard and with many "sharp" edges.

They were averaging something like 15,000km life on the bloopers - on some vehicles much lower. The bloke in charge of construction of the new haul road down to Christmas Creek got 5,000km out of a set on his vehicle.

They very quickly changed to another brand of tyres.

The company I worked for at the time never used the bloopers - based on what I have seen of them with my own eyes, I would also never consider them for my own vehicle.

Having said that, I'm currently running a set of Mickey's (which are now owned by bloopers) - and so far, am very happy with them. They've been on the vehicle for more than a couple of years now, and have done a fair bit of off-road travel, plus plenty of long distance bitumen trips.

I do believe that one of the major contributing factors into why the Mickey's are significantly outlasting what they replaced on my vehicle, is that I purchased and fitted a TPMS at the same time as fitting the Mickey's. Prior to this, I could not honestly hold my hand over my heart and say that my tyre pressures were always maintained where they should be.