Thread: BFG All Terrains - give me your thoughts

Well now you bring it up i am going to write to BFG and complain .
The reason. i run BFG A/T on my 90 have been on the truck for 2 years and done 60,000k's already before i took the truck around Aus
I want to complain about the fact i drove 36000k's around Aus. On all the bad aussie tracks (taminai, great central track, gibb river road, road to chambers piller, and up to the cape) and I took two spare tyres
Which i did not use any off. I want to complain that it was a waste of space and feul carrying the extra tyre.
Had one punture and that was in bunning car perk in cairns (from a nail.) which went down slowly and was able to drive to a tyre repair palce for the to fix it

The truck could do with a new set of tyres and they will be BFG AT with out a question. Remebr you get what you pay for
We are buying a disco and that will get a set too.
i have all sorts of tyres on the 15 landies i have had.
Simex , goodyears, BFG's, firestones, Yokahamas , Generals, Avon's. And i still rate BFG as the best

Don't know about tag along tours as i have never been on one. But a few i have seen out and about seem to be sponsered by cooper tyres. So i do wonder if that has anything to do with it

Walker
I have nothing but praise for BFG's - I had a 100 series L/C that had them on and after 60 000k still looked almost new - I lived in the north west of WA so they copped some very rough tracks and never had to change a flat. They are the only tyre I will run on now.

Cheers

I've owned BFG all-terrains in the past and got 60K out of mine. I used to hammer mine off-road and on but still at the end they had 5mm of tread left all round.

Worth every cent. Mud is hopeless on the At's but you buy muddies for that reason.

urrently I run 255/85R16 BFG Muddies, despite puncturing one through the sidewall at the Springs a few months ago they've handled the off-road work no worries. Any tyre can be punctured off-road (first time in 11 years I have been 4WDing) regardless of brand.

BFG had a bad run a few years back with componding and other issues (not sure) but seemd to have rectified this issue now.

Trav

BFG A/T K/O are a fantastic,tyre nothing but praise for them. Regularly abuse them offroad( nearly everyday ) and no probs, my last set got a hole in the side wall from a pile of half buried brocken beer bottles on stockton beach but that does'nt count as far as i'm concerned,would have happened to any tyre.

went to a tyre place the other day and they were trying to talk me out of BFG's for some other tyre that was $50 a corner cheaper. He looked at me like i was mad when i said i was more than happy to spend $50 more for BFG over his Unknown (to me) tyre. Oh yeah guess what he did not do BFG's

Ok, well that's sounding better. This is the first time I have heard BFG's mentioned on a forum in a good light. But I guess it is the people who complain that you hear about, not the people who are happy, which is why I wanted to ask here.


I have found that my BFG's bag a lot more, even at high pressures ie.40psi....is this normal?

When I let them down to 24psi they were REALLY bagging which could be why they are more suseptable to sidewall cuts.
The MTR's and even the Michelins did not bag this much at all.

The BFG A/T's will bag more than MTR's (i assume you mean Wrangler MTR's) cause they are an all terrain tyre not a mud terrain tyre, so the tyre carcass isn't as strong.Because they are such a capable tyre a lot of people forget this. Also a common misconception is that tyres bagging out is what you want to increase tyre contact on sand, not so, the bagged part of the tyre is half way up the sidewall. Tyre length is what changes the most and that is where you get increased traction.

I have used BFG ATs since 1977 (6 sets of BFG AT or MT) without ever having a puncture offroad, including Simpson etc etc. No tread separation, no bubbles, some tread block chipping in the Brindabellas with a Detroit. I swear by em.

However on a trip with 10 Rovers across the Simpson only one puncture was suffered on a Michelin, by the guy driving across a grid and dropping a tyre off the end/side near Depot Glen.
In circumstances where you would cut a sidewall any radial will do much the same.
Buying the latest set I agonised about Coopers but boy I am glad I decided to stick with what works for me, considering the bad vibes I have seen about them. It can be an expensive decision if wrong.

The only way out is to have those Indian armoured cross plys which have steel in the sidewall.

Regards Philip A