Tyres

mcrover · 1st August 2007, 05:01 PM

In my opinion and the opinion of a couple of tyre fitters I do a bit of business with, alot of the chipping and wear issues are to do with tyre width in relation to how it's driven but in saying that, my Jeep used to take chunks out of S/T's on sandy gravel roads.

I know the wider tyres provide more stability and look a crap load better and I dont know the reason behind it but most of the people with chipping problems are running wide tyres and generally drive harder because they can on dirt roads.

I run 235 85 16's BFG AT's on my D1 and I dont find them unstable at all though I generally get a bit left behind by the big tyre crews until the slower stuff evens the score and then they dig much better and dont slde around as much as the bigger boys.

I know there are going to be people probably going to not like my comments but Im not saying you chouldnt have wider tyres, I have just noticed in 10 years of working in a tyre joint and what my suppliers have agreed with me about the wider tyres.

It's your choice in the end but I would stay well clear of coopers, too many horror stories and there's a constant there was a bad batch story but it seems that that bad batch was every thing up to when I need tyres.

Do a search for tyres and spend the next week reading about all the horror stories about all of them, I went back to BFG AT's as the last set got me 130000kms and I go 4wding about every second weekend when we can and only ever got 1 puncture in that set but there are people who havnt had a good run with them so make your own mind up.

**Batman** · 1st August 2007, 07:14 PM

Thanks everyone. Everyone has good arguments, and I have to say after years of rallying I guess it can also come down to luck too, mind you I have has a lot of luck with kevlar reinforced rally tyres, extremely hard to puncture, but wear out fast. Due to a very good offer on a set of BFG AT's at a special sponsorship price, I can't pass them up. After a bit of research today with our suppliers, I also discovered that to my amazement nearly all the AT tyres avaialble in 235/70/16 are passenger car construction, not LT. Don't they think we Landrover Disacovery owners take our vehicles off road? I know its really hard to get decent tyres for the D3.
Batman

**Andrew** · 1st August 2007, 07:21 PM

"A word of warning on Cooper STs, they don't go well with the traction control on Disco 2s in offroad conditions."

What nonsense is that, as if the traction control knows what kind of tyre you have. Probabbly more to do with the driving style I would suggest.

MarknDeb · 1st August 2007, 08:30 PM

we are getting Mickey T ATZ's fitted this Friday, 245/75 16, did all the stuff to find out the best match and thats a hard job, we got it down to Coopers and Mickey T's, roughly same price, load ratings and speed rating much the same but a mate got the MickeyT's on his Landcruiser and they are very nice to ride on.

**cookiesa** · 1st August 2007, 08:32 PM

I can't get to a dealer to see them, how do they compare to the Cooper ST pattern in terms of openess, or are they closer to the Cooper ATR?

**HangOver** · 1st August 2007, 09:40 PM

Nexen are quite cheap grip well in the wet and driy good off & on road but I think they might wear quicker than other tyres. but as they are so cheap it's ok

**HAK** · 1st August 2007, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew

"A word of warning on Cooper STs, they don't go well with the traction control on Disco 2s in offroad conditions."

What nonsense is that, as if the traction control knows what kind of tyre you have. Probabbly more to do with the driving style I would suggest.

yeah I thought that it was a little bit of bolony also maybe he ment it makes the traction control work harder even si I dout it

I was going to go for the Cooper STT, IMO others such as baja claws simex, all wear out way to fast for my bugget

Good year MTR i think they look ok also

**Slunnie** · 1st August 2007, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew

"A word of warning on Cooper STs, they don't go well with the traction control on Disco 2s in offroad conditions."

What nonsense is that, as if the traction control knows what kind of tyre you have. Probabbly more to do with the driving style I would suggest.

No Andrew, you may not understand. Actually the Cooper ST works badly with the traction control. It's got nothing to do with 1 part knowing what the other part is. One of the problems with the Cooper ST is that it is a tyre that is not tolerant of wheelspin - the reps will even tell you that the lugs breaking off that particular tyre is more prevalent in the rears of part time 4WDers who are not prompt in using the little stick. The issue with the Disco2 and its traction control is that the traction control needs wheel spin for the system to operate and start braking the spinning wheel, and it is this same wheel spin which causes the outer lugs on the ST to seperate from the carcass.

**Ken** · 1st August 2007, 10:01 PM

Im running Goodyear MT/Rs on my D2 and have nothing but praise for them great in the wet on road and Awesome off road in the mud 265/75/16 no scrubbing no cutting just fit em and enjoy

**Disco Steve** · 1st August 2007, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by HangOver

Nexen are quite cheap grip well in the wet and driy good off & on road but I think they might wear quicker than other tyres. but as they are so cheap it's ok

nexen's are a brilliant tyre for the money. I had the HT's and the AT's both lasted 70000km's and drove realy well. and i only paid $150 per tyre

Thread: Tyres

Thread Tools

Decision helped

Bookmarks

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions