Cooper ST vs. General Grabber for a discovery III?

Interesting reading about the GG2's.

I've still not decided if I should replace my Wranglers with a set of highway tyres (Cooper HT plus) or ATs (Yokohama ATS2 or GG2).

I have a set of 17" STT's which need 4 tyres to be replaced and realistically to keep 2 sets for road and off roading is costing heaps because I need effectively to buy 8 tyres to have my 2 sets useable again.

Anyone know where to get a good price for GG2's in Melbourne (SE suburbs)? I know of Cooper and Yokohama dealers that I've used before but not General dealers.

Thanks,

Chris

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Originally Posted by CaverD3

Wranglers are very poor tyres especially for Oz, they pucture easily on gravel, they wear vey quickly and have thin side walls.
There are limited tyres for the 18 inch wheels, GG ATs, Yoko Gealandars and cooper HT+ are some, there may be others. There have been good reports about the GGs, I had to put Cooper HT+ 's on mine as the GGs had not arrived in Oz when I had to replace the Wranglers. They have been great on tar gravel and sand but not so good off road (but better than the Wranglers)But they are as tough a nails I have pulled a few nails and srews out of them without them being punctured. Had one pucture from a nail on the edge of the tread the day after fitting and that is it.
HT+ is very slightly oversize but is negigable.

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Many moons ago on my VW kombi I wore out my brand new Wrangers in an extremely short period of time, and have never purchased Wranglers since.

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Originally Posted by 300+

"a pop" There are bad puns and baaaaaaaad puns. You should be barred for a week for that one.

Steve

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Considering that the last time a tyre went pop my son wrote off our RRC and took a couple of chips of bone out of his T3 & T4 vetebrae, we will not be buying tyres that may go pop.

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Originally Posted by PCH

Anyone know where to get a good price for GG2's in Melbourne (SE suburbs)? I know of Cooper and Yokohama dealers that I've used before but not General dealers.

Thanks,

Chris

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Seems to be a problem. I'm trying to buy a set in Brisbane at the moment. I've been quoted $399 fitted by dog tyred. Stevos recomendation on the Gold Coast told me they were discontinued by the importer so I'll be lucky to find any in stock:o

Everybody else I've called doesn't stock general grabber. Beaurepairs had never heard of the brand.

I've mailed the importer to see what they say.

Cheers, Steve

Their web site is, shall we say sub optimal :)
Click on the dealwer locator link here

Regards,
Tote

300+ - after reading your post I rang the distributors down in Melbourne and got a couple of dealers names here on the south side of Brisbane. Rang Tyreworks in Moss St, Slacks Creek and they will fit them for $390 each so I am getting some fitted tomorrow afternoon. The price I got from Fourbys was $420 and you got the $399 from Dog Tyred so I think $390 is an acceptable price. I don't think supply is a problem as the distributors said this is their most popular size and they have a warehouse in Brisbane.

Timj

Thanks for the info Tim. I rang a few more places today and got a couple of places saying they had also never heard of general grabber as a brand of tyres. Also got a price of $425 fitted from a place in Red Hill. Looks like I'm heading down to Slacks Creek as it is a bit closer than Kallangur and I need to pick something else up from down that way.

Cheers, Steve

Got four Grabbers fitted this afternoon. The fifth one is on back order and should be here Monday so I was obviously wrong about stock not being any problem at all :angel:. So far they seem quiet, they are balanced properly and they handle at least as well or better than the Goodyears but until I try something a little bit rougher than the Southeast Freeway I can't say much more than that. They look so much better than the standard tyres, makes it look more like it lives up to the bull bar and all that stuff now.

Will report more once I take it off the bitumen.

Tim.

Mmmmm, I'm booked in on Friday for a set, so I hope they find some before Monday!

Steve

Well actually that may be the reason they didn't have all five for me. Have you ordered four or five?

Tim.