Td5 110 New Tyres..what's best?

[greenextreme]

Hi Guys,
My Td5 110 ['99 Extreme] needs new tyres. When travelling we often tow a CT. The Cooper ST's have done 80K and are now bald [but been good]. Previously I had BFG TA's and they did 105K until bald. When offroad we mostly travel on gravel, sand [incl. beaches] and occasionally [rarely] mud or river crossings. A BFG or BStone TA or Michelin LTX AT should travel 100K and may be the better value but when needing extra traction a heavier pattern or lug tyre might be best [e.g. BS Dueler MT D673]. Can anyone recommend which tyres...which way to go? cheers,

[CraigE]

I have had Cooper STT's on mine and they were OK, but no where near the mileages touted and now a bit expensive.
BFGs are OK but expensive and now a bit soft.
Currently I have Hankook Dynamics MTs on and they seem really good and are cheap.
Many good reviews of the Maxxis Bighorns as well as they are also cheap.

[Chucaro]

I have Maxxis and I am happy with them.

[extreme]

I've had areally good run out BFG A/T. I'm on my second set. First set i got 80,000 km's out of them. They are now on their second life on my trailer.

[BilboBoggles]

BFG MT's Little wear after 20,000k's. Noise levels are quite good. Grip on road is quite good. Grip on dirt ;-)... I ran 2 sets of STT's over about 180,000's before this and found that they wore reasonably well, and in fact quite similar to the BFG. I've had A/T before and found there was little advantage to them in a defender, but more advantage in the M/T pattern.

[BilboBoggles]

Oh forgot to mention - Not one single puncture in 200,000k's since switching to M/T!!! Perhaps the A/T's I had used were rubbish but I got quite a few punctures in those.

[Scallops]

I'm running 265/75 Mickey T MTZ's - they totally rock. I've only done 15,000km - but I cannot detect any wear difference between the ones on the truck and my spare. I rotate front to back, same side, at 10,000km intervals.

The offroad performance is sensational and the onroad performance is pretty good. They make a bit of a hum - but I like that - I wind the windows down and pretend I'm flying a 4 prop bomber.

[roverrescue]

[e.g. BS Dueler MT D673].

a much underated tyre IMHO... tough and do the job.
I love em.

Steve

[3pointa]

Apart from the top dollar tyres, Silverstone make a pretty good bfg copy
in both a/t and m/t at a good saving.
A bloke I know ran a set of the m/ts and was happy.
I have also heard good reports on the maxxis and toyo tyres.
When the going gets slippery, the type of tyre does make a big differance.


3pointa

[gaz]

Did a lot of research into this , thru this site and 4x4 mags, decided on the new goodyear wrangler MT/R Kevlar 265/75R/16 @ $325.00 each fitted and balanced.