I changed the road Tyers on my Colorado at about 2,000km to Cooper AT and was mostly happy with them and got around 120,000 km but felt they didn't grip well in the wet.

I then changed to Bridgestone AT and after three years very happy. I will probably go with Bridgestone AT again.

When the time comes to go see Bridgestone again I will take care walking in SC. 

-- Edited by Dougwe on Friday 10th of February 2023 08:14:27 PM

I have been through two sets of Bridgestone D697'LT' AT's & have had excellent mileage out of them. They held up really well on even the sharp quartz gravel on w. qld roads. Only thing I didn't like about them is that I believe they have thinner sidewalls than some of the competition & balloon out more with lower pressures. In rocky country I often found myself using higher pressures than I wanted to, simply due to the vulnerability of the side walls. Our car is heavy though, often running at gvm of 3900kg including the towball weight of our tvan. When I lost a 10 day old tyre to a side wall at moderate speed, to a rock hidden by sand, I decided to change next time I needed new tyres. We were in the Kimberley at the time, where it is often rocky, so I kept an eye on what Kimberley locals used on their out of town cars.

Two choices were far more common than the rest. BFG AT's & Toyo AT's. When the time came to get new tyres I went with Toyo's, but tyres were hard to obtain at the time, so I ended up getting the Toyo RT's which I'm still using. They are fine & suit my purpose, but as you would expect they are a bit noisier than AT's on the bitumen. Not as bad as MT's, nowhere near, but next change I'll go back to AT's.

Second the Toyo Open Country, AT's, Japanese Made NOT the Chinese made ones, difference is like chalk and cheese, the Jap made tyres better grip all round, and 3 times the distance on the tyre. Up until this last car, that now has HT's, I ran Toyo's for 15 years, over 120,000km per set average. Costing avg $400 ea. Also, not one puncture.

Roy E wrote:

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Yobarr,
I love your photo.
Cheers,
Roy.

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 Only trouble is Roy, not his rig just a random photo off the internet.

yobarr wrote:

 

 

 Like you, I have little regard for Coopers, but neither have I had a decent run out of BFG. When I turfed the BFGs I fitted Mickey Thompsons which gave me good service over many thousands of kilometres on both tar roads and unformed bush tracks, but when I decided to fit new tyres before travelling the Great Central Road from Kalgoorlie I was unable to source Mickey Thompson.

Much research steered me to Toyo Open Country, which have a great reputation as well as looking the part!

However, the tyre man who looked after our Roadtrains did not stock them, and insisted that Maxxis were a superior brand anyway. Eventually I agreed to fit the Maxxis to the car. They have been excellent on tar, dirt roads, bush tracks and in the mud, although last week I did get stuck when trying to travel on a recently flooded bush track.

Cross locks gave me a real 4wd and I managed to get out. Thankyou Mr ARB!

When it comes to tyres you will get opinions from everybody, depending on their own experiences, but I like my Maxxis. Cheers

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 Because you have implied that it's yours, by posting that you got bogged.!!! 

You never actually state that it's yours, just post random photos of broken caravans or long Road Trains that you 'don't' drive...false impression Yobarr, and nothing to do with the OP.

Cheers Bob

Bobdown wrote:

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yobarr wrote:

 Like you, I have little regard for Coopers, but neither have I had a decent run out of BFG. When I turfed the BFGs I fitted Mickey Thompsons which gave me good service over many thousands of kilometres on both tar roads and unformed bush tracks, but when I decided to fit new tyres before travelling the Great Central Road from Kalgoorlie I was unable to source Mickey Thompson.

Much research steered me to Toyo Open Country, which have a great reputation as well as looking the part!

However, the tyre man who looked after our Roadtrains did not stock them, and insisted that Maxxis were a superior brand anyway. Eventually I agreed to fit the Maxxis to the car. They have been excellent on tar, dirt roads, bush tracks and in the mud, although last week I did get stuck when trying to travel on a recently flooded bush track.

Cross locks gave me a real 4wd and I managed to get out. Thankyou Mr ARB!

When it comes to tyres you will get opinions from everybody, depending on their own experiences, but I like my Maxxis. Cheers

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 Because you have implied that it's yours, by posting that you got bogged.!!! 

You never actually state that it's yours, just post random photos of broken caravans or long Road Trains that you 'don't' drive...false impression Yobarr, and nothing to do with the OP.

Cheers Bob

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Surely you jest, Bob? Does that little bus look like a 79?  Photo was posted as a matter of interest, as are photos that I post of Roadtrains. And is 53.5 metres not long enough for you to class a truck as a Roadtrain? 

Down your way most Roadtrains are 36.5 metres, I believe?, with bigger ones, around 53.5 metres allowed around Kalgoorlie and North, while the biggest ones, 60 metres long, are found up in the Port Hedland area. Cheers

           This a 60 metre Roadtrain with 110 wheels, laden weight over 200 tons.

                          (Note. I DID NOT drive his particular truck.)

 

-- Edited by yobarr on Saturday 11th of February 2023 12:10:34 PM

It's the implication that it's a photo you took Yobarr, like I said you say, you drive a Roadtrain and then put a pic of one, what are people supposed to think.

Let's ask Roy 'if he loved your photo' because he thought it was you stuck in the mud? not some generic pic.

Why can't you admit that it's misleading to some people.

Cheers Bob

I learnt a hard lesson about 30 years ago. I had 8ply road tread Firestone tyres on our MQ Patrol & had to brake hard on a main wet Townsville road. I had no feeling of braking happening until I hit the 1st car, writing two cars off, damaging a third.
The main reason - the car aquaplaned due to no side sipes/slots that would let the water out the sides.

Since then I have been wary - some tyres have holding ribs on the edges of the tyres which is fine until the tyre wears down to that level - it's much higher than the safety bar. Earlier BS Desert Duellers had a high rib - I went butelsewhere. The Toyo O-C is a good tyre but it has that rib, the Bridgestone 697 has a smaller rib & I've not had any dramas in four sets of them.

I'm curious as to how some of our members above get over 80,000kms out of their tyres. On average Bridgestone 697 LT tyres give me around 55,000 KMs. Most sets could have given another 10,000kms of town driving but it's not worth the risk of doing highway speeds & chancing a blow out on a trip.

I just got toyo open country 3, traveled 9,500km and they didn't miss a beat.

We usually do mostly country driving(black stuff) some off road and lots of beach driving when they let us!

Whatever you get make sure they are light truck construction which means they are tougher.

mixo

Bicyclecamper wrote:

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Warren-Pat_01 wrote:

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I'm curious as to how some of our members above get over 80,000kms out of their tyres. On average Bridgestone 697 LT tyres give me around 55,000 KMs. Most sets could have given another 10,000kms of town driving but it's not worth the risk of doing highway speeds & chancing a blow out on a trip.

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 Good tyres, looked after will go the distance. I ran the tyres at between 36-38 psi, depending on weight. I never scrubbed them out on terrible roads. I did average 60/40 Highway gravel, and I think  it is just the quality of them. Also I never had an aquaplaning issue in the wet in 15 years.

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 80000 km out of a set of tyres is a myth towing big weights no way

First set of Dunlop Grandtreks.....75,000k, still a bit meat on them as well.

Second set.......30,000k, still like new.

200 series Cruiser, 105,000k on the clock...........nearly 90,000k towing, all types of roads.

Cheers Bob

Bicyclecamper wrote:

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Well, you have been buying rubbish tyres TY, or not lo0oking after them. Towing wise, I only had 30% of those km's towing

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 Toyo bfg falken are not rubbish always rotate and adjust pressure but towing 3.5 ton with 350 on the ball you will highly lucky to achieve 80 to 90 000 km 

cheers