Tyre failure on Fraser Isl

Did you get stuck? If not then it was a success!

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Originally Posted by Russrobe

Agree with others, those tyres should never have left the city.

Half the reason i run two sets is I won't go on an arduous trip such as Fraser without a min of approx 50% tread, so when my expensive D697s neared 50%, i decided to shelve them until i needed them on the next said trip.

I'd put it down to lesson learnt, and don't think you'd be any better off with ANY other type or size of tyre.

50% is within reason of course, but sand driving and corrugations would be at the top of my caution list.

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Having been to Fraser twice in the D4 first time running 19” grabber AT ( but not LT rated) and the second on 18 ko2 LT tyres and it was chalk and cheese. With the grabbers deflated to 22 psi and looking almost flat in the rear the car squirmed all over the place in the soft high beach sand. Next time on ko2’s at around 20psi ( and they still held form) was confident, steady and a total pleasure to drive. I was constantly expecting the grabbers to to come off on any uneven slope. However they didn’t but never again. Too stressful.

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Originally Posted by pprass

The tread on the tyre that de-laminated looks a lot worse on that side than on the other, but as I said I knew that they had about 25% - 30% left in them before
i left on the trip, not knowing that they were going to have to do some extreme work to get through Ngkala Rocks on Fraser.
However the point is, regardless of the amount of tread (I remember being told that on sand the less tread the better actually!), the side walls cracked up. Also I am pretty sure that the de-lamination also occurred because the side structure of the tyre was not supporting the shoulder.

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No worries mate. I would be thinking that there would be more to it than just bald tyres. Any tyre old enough to have tread worn to that extent would have residual damage or fatigue in the whole construction, which would make them more susceptible to failure than a new tyre.

The state of the tyres in questions is woeful. The outcome on a 15” would be no different. The edge was delaminated through neglect and inattention

I was kind of leaning the same way. I wouldn't be blaming the tyres or brand in this case. The pics show a tyre that's had a very hard life long before Fraser...
Pics show evidence of being run for extended time on hard surfaces at very low pressures. Not on sand, I'm talking on bitumen and similar.

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Originally Posted by Redback

This is a stitch up right??

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im not sure but this thread has a lot of traction.

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Originally Posted by Eevo

im not sure but this thread has a lot of traction.

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The tyres could have done with some stitching clearly [emoji23]

Come on gents these tyre jokes just keep going round and round.

Cheers

I'll keep my eye on this thread from the sidewall.

Regardless of the brand old worn out tyres will nearly always let you down when the going gets tough, Not to mention that they are a liability even in the city.
It is not that hard or expensive to ensure you always have a good set of tyres on your 4WD and without them your truck is pretty much useless.