Thread: Tyres for a Defender

Bushie,

Another cousin :roll: has just put Kumhos on his Defender.

He seems well pleased.

My old Disco had wrangler AT's and I was really pleased with them, I am just about to get wrangler muddies for the defernder.

I use olympic steeltrek, which is what the aus army use. I think they are great. Just a little noisy on the black stuff but not as noisy as the fender anyway so it dont matter.
I buy them second hand from the defence at a tyre place called Ringtread Tyres. for $80 each fitted. about 40-50% tread left. Pretty good i reakon. dont know how much they are brand new going to find out but. from bridgstone i think.

i run pirelli scorpians a/t as a road tyre
sensational tryes
they have brought out a mud tyre as well
same tread pattern as the BF mud
might give then ago next time

Down here, steeltreks (olympic) are about $250 a tyre, and not many places have them.

I'd be looking at the Bridgestone 604V if I were you bushie [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Well I've just put 5 Goodyear ATs onto the Defender as well as getting 4 Michelin muddies (4X4-O/R XZLs) I was given fitted onto rims, so now have 6 very good tyres and 4 muddies at 40%-50% on rims. Hopefully they will do me for a while or until I can come across 4/5 disco steels at the right price.

(Wranglers)(Michelins)

The Michelins retail at around $350 ea, so I'm happy with them and the Wranglers were $190 ea

Bushie

do you want some bfg all terrains plus new rims? my mate has 10 bfg all terrains on defender rims. 235x85x16. good deal if you want new tires and rims. rims are mint but the tires are prob 60%

send me a pm if you are interested.

No thanks at this point I'll have to lay low for a while, 5 tyres and rego/insurance at the end of the month is a tad expensive.

I take it your mates defender rims are not the 5.5 inch as BFGs are specified as min 6" rim.


Bushie