19" Hankook Dynapro ATM RF10

This is something that's giving me some heartache as well. Stay with the 19" or buy 18"? Seems that plenty of owners are still using the 19s without a problem so I may well do that.
I had Maxxis Bravo 17" on a Prado some time ago and they were a good tyre but the 19" tyre which seems to have the same pattern tread looks as if it's only got the same amount of pattern but spread over a wider tyre. Big gaps between each tread line. Good tyre though and much more supple than the BFGs I normally have.... softer sidewalls obviously.
Might go for the GGs as I've had a good run from them on the Defender in the past.

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Originally Posted by ATH

This is something that's giving me some heartache as well. Stay with the 19" or buy 18"? Seems that plenty of owners are still using the 19s without a problem so I may well do that.
I had Maxxis Bravo 17" on a Prado some time ago and they were a good tyre but the 19" tyre which seems to have the same pattern tread looks as if it's only got the same amount of pattern but spread over a wider tyre. Big gaps between each tread line. Good tyre though and much more supple than the BFGs I normally have.... softer sidewalls obviously.
Might go for the GGs as I've had a good run from them on the Defender in the past.

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Hi Alan, I have the Maxxis 19", you are more than welcome to come and have a look at them, I have done about 12K on them. I'm in Warwick.
Cheers
Scott.

I have had General Grabbers AT2, Maxxis 751, Scorpions , and Michelin XPC and now Duratracs. All in LT. The Duratracs are the best all rounder in my view. All on 16 inch rims on d2. Cheers

Stew
Essendon Bob Jane can get Duratracs in 24hrs, currently $375.

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Originally Posted by scomac

Hi Alan, I have the Maxxis 19", you are more than welcome to come and have a look at them, I have done about 12K on them. I'm in Warwick.
Cheers
Scott.

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I'm in the same boat. About 12000km on mine and I live in Mt Lawley. Happy for you to check them out and go for drive to assess noise.

JH

After having a run of punctures, I just came to the conclusion the RF10s are soft, which they are. On a trip on the border track my car was the only car to have any tyre damage, front and back at the same time! which left me to carry out the repair shown. It got me 170kms offroad to the nearest town though, couldn't believe it.
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Anyway, I have spent the last year in a new Prado (shut your mouth!) which has 121 rated LT 17' offroad tyres and have had more punctures in this, nails, bolts, running over expansion joints in the Bolte bridge, you name it. My tyre bloke loves me. So the other conclusion I have come to is, it's more about luck than anything else.
Will be checking out the Maxxis when I get back into a Disco soon.

I have just done 2000+km of unsealed roads through central Australia on my 19" Kankook DynaPros. The tyres have done 40,000km. I was travelling solo for a fortnight, so the vehicle was loaded but not critically so. I ran 42-44PSI in the rears and 38PSI in the fronts (cold) and did not vary them for the unsealed surfaces or rocky tracks. The majority of the unsealed roads were fast gravel, sitting on about 104km/h so I was uncomfortable reducing pressures below highway pressures. With the loads I was carrying, I felt that reducing pressures would roll the tyres and expose the sidewalls to rocks when changing direction. The downside of this philosophy was probably some damage to tread blocks on the rear tyres.
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The front tyres are undamaged and wearing normally.

Overall I am really happy with how the tyres performed. There was about 250km of rough rocky fast roads on the eastern end of the Gary Junction Road that was traversed unscathed. It was gnarly enough to rip a brake pad sensor off and a rock getting caught between a caliper and a wheel rim causing a hell of a grinding racket until I could pull up and clear it.

I expect to get another 25,000-30,000km from the tyres before hey wear down to the indicators.

Cheers,
Chris

I have driven about 44,000 kms on the Hankook Dynapros 255x55x19 that I bought last year and am impresses at how well the tread has lasted - even the back tyres as I travel towing a 3 tonne van a lot of the time. Just finished a trip to Cape York up the Development Road and even with the horrendous section between Laura and Cohen there was no damage to the tread - ie no chipping or tearing of he tread.

An odd thing has happened though - I punctured one of the rear tyres in a very nasty spot close to the shoulder and the tyre repairman wouldn't touch it so I had to buy a new tyre. This was in Alice Springs and it cost about $440 to get another one including freight. The odd thing about this new replacement is that it bulges on the side walls more than the others. I can have the pressure at 45 psi, but it still looks like it is down to about 30 psi! So many well intending passers by tell me that that the tyre is flat [bigsad] I haven't checked the details on the tyre to compare it to the others, but I wonder if it is a different rating?

Peter

Not LT? Check the tyre.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Not LT? Check the tyre.

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Just had a look - it is identical to the others except for one number. The new one has RF10 09257 and the older ones have RF10 09258

BTW - can't see anywhere on the tyre where it says LT?