Originally Posted by
goingbush
Love Bar Treads , cut my teeth on them , The ONLY thing I don't like about them, is common to bias ply tyres (less than 10 ply anyway) is after sitting for a few days the tyres go square and take a few km to get round again and smooth out esp on a cold morning , maybe I run at too low a pressure.
Crikey Don, I still have nightmares from sliding sideways down a slope with absolutely no grip from the bar treads. It was probably a good thing really because if they had any sideways grip we may have dug in and rolled. Eventually we came to rest against a tree.
Terrible tyres on bitumen, suicidal in the wet and as you say square for the first couple of K's. Great traction going ahead but no sideways grip at all. Unsurprisingly the military gave them the flic and went to the old NATO pattern tread which were a much better, safer and more comfortable tyre but still with good 'agricultural' properties.
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94 Defender 110..95 Defender 130 Ute
96 D1 300TDi.......99 D2 TD5 (current)
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