Kumho haven't improved IMHO
Have them on the Fairmont and 2 of 5 have gone out of shape in the last 12 months
Next big cheque sees them banished...
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Kumho haven't improved IMHO
Have them on the Fairmont and 2 of 5 have gone out of shape in the last 12 months
Next big cheque sees them banished...
stop the circle work,,,, [bighmmm]
buy something else.
sitting in Mungerannie Pup one wet night and a woman comes in, covered in mud, asking the publican if he can fix a tyre for her.
As he walked out the door, he asked us (about 60 of us on an Outback heritage drive) if any of us used cooper tyres. he told us to get rid of them, most of the tyre failures he sees on the birdsville track are on coopers.
You can get good prices on BFG from Temp Tyres in Sydney, might be worth seeing if they have an affilliate in your area.
I have them and they are great! They look and perform awesome. I put 265/75 16 on my defender, they are better than an AT and not as noisy as a muddy but still go great off road. Great looking tread pattern and stance. $255 ea at Kmart with free balancing every 10,000. RecommendQuote:
Originally Posted by JR1
Why Cooper? Hard compound, known cracking issues, reputation more so based on advertising than quality, overpriced. I would suggest bfg ko2 which you can ckurrently buy for $301 from tyresales
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Originally Posted by Slunnie
Kumho are a directonal tyre so spare can't be used on all corners. That's a negative for meQuote:
Originally Posted by JR1
Personally, I've had them twice and dumped them after 35thous k's. Problem was in delaminating, developing bubbles/bulges in the sidewalks and tread. Once, slowing down after highway travel at 100kph+'. came into the burbs and wondered why the wagon had developed this great limp. BIG BUBBLE. Guarantees ? Well only if you keep a record of the tyre rotation performed by one of their own Coop agents, costing 50 bucks a time, then only on a pro rata basis for wear.
I stripped them of and fitted the BFG. Now I feel really safe.
I had Maxxis bighorn 764, a similar price and the side walls are thin .. like soft cheese , so it's an expensive 'pop' .. but hey they look Great!Quote:
Originally Posted by Young Angus
If your buying off road tyres in Melbourne check prices against Huntsman Products in Carrum Downs.Their tyre prices are hard to beat and all the big brands are available there as well as many less known as well.
HUNTSMAN PRODUCTS | HOME
you reckon buying 5 is expensive...try tyre shopping when you own a Pinzgauer 712k...
ps. I have no association with Huntsman other than buying tyres from them. Good luck
I would not buy Coopers ever again. Most overpriced and over rated tyre on the market.
First one had a 12mm bolt go straight through the tread block at less than 500kms, not through the gap which I would have accepted but through the tread block on STTs.
Multiple punctures, mostly on road far more than any other tyre I have ever used including road tyres.
Tyres started cracking after about 12 months.
1 started to delaminate at about 2 years.
Tyrepower were slightly concerned with all but did little as did Coopers. Tyrepower are now another story and with issue on Maxxis car tyres likely wont use a Tyrepower franchise again. That's a bigger story.
Their so called warranty is not worth the paper it is printed on and at that no more than the statutory warranty only.
Now some of the tyres I would have again.
Hankook, probably one of the best tyres I have had on for wear, noise and price. Only issue I had with them was I sliced a side wall in a creek on razor sharp rocks in the Pilbara. No tyre would have survived it. I only wanted 2, to put 2 new ones on the front and one of the existing as a spare. Well only 1 set of 5 in Australia and they were in Melbourne and Hankook would only sell as a complete set???
So went for a set of Hercules tyres that the dealer was using on his own fleet in Newman, now not a Mud Tyre but an M&S. Not cheap at $320 ea but was Newman. So far well in excess of 40,000kms and they have barely started to wear. Dealer reckons I should get min 100,000kms, likely 120,000kms out of them and so far so goo. No punctures yet, 5 years old and no signs of deterioration at all.
BFGs have not been bad
Firestone AXTs great tyre, similar experience to the Hercules, but sadly don't make any more, since early 90's.