Thread: Buying Cooper tyres....Any suggestions?

Originally Posted by Young Angus

How on earth is someone meant to tell the difference between an American built and a Thailand (or any other non original country) built tyre from a manufacturer???

I'm with your mates I'd rather have the genuine article, but is there actually a way to tell?

Sure is, as scarry says the country of manufacture is always written on the tyre.

If you really want to get into it the date code stamp prefix will tell you which factory etc. as well as the week and year of manufacture.

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Deano

Originally Posted by rick130

Check out BFG's then, after you check out who owns BFG. ;-)

Same parent. Different factories

Same with Mickey T and Coopers. Both very different outcomes..

Originally Posted by scarry

My KO2s have made in USA stamped on them,which i presume is where they are made

Haha silly question I guess, does it make any difference if they're just selling them as the same product anyway? Anyone know if anyone sells the non USA BFGs or is it just pot luck?

I recently bought 9 x 255/85R16 TOYO MT's off Tyroola for $252 each... can't complain... BFG were $359...

Well I just had my mind made up for me, got an absolutely crakin' deal on some Goodyear MTR Kevlars which was so good I had to take it (think about a hundred bucks less per tyre than the cheapest price you'd expect to find them or any other 4WD tyre for...actually pretty much the same price you got those Toyo MTs for). So of course I got six of them

Originally Posted by Tombie

Same parent. Different factories

Same with Mickey T and Coopers. Both very different outcomes..

But the data, technology, engineering, etc is shared.
Having said that we used to find that Japanese racing Dunlops were much better than UK racing Dunlops!
Consistency, build quality, etc were totally different, so I take your point Mike.

Interestingly the Michelin/BFG Raid/Dakar tyres used to be produced in France but all off road racing tyres now come out of the one BFG factory in the US.

re factories, I've seen BFG AT's with 'Made in Japan' on them, Goodyear Wrangler AT's out of Indonesia, etc.

Originally Posted by Young Angus

Well I just had my mind made up for me, got an absolutely crakin' deal on some Goodyear MTR Kevlars which was so good I had to take it (think about a hundred bucks less per tyre than the cheapest price you'd expect to find them or any other 4WD tyre for...actually pretty much the same price you got those Toyo MTs for). So of course I got six of them

I think you will be very happy with them. A harsher ride though due to the carcass.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I think you will be very happy with them. A harsher ride though due to the carcass.

Well I've been trucking around on 10 year old hard Coopers for a while so not sure it'll be much worse than that, but yes I'm not expecting them to be whisper quiet or anything, but I'm pretty happy with that decision, not to mention the price!