4wd tyres

Thanks Guys, i probably should have mentioned that i don't get off road much , as i intended, so they would be more hwy use. A mate told me his neighbour has done 60,000 kms on a set which he is very impressed with, he highly Recommended them. My mate has just put them on his Navara and says that they ride really well, but early days yet, and they cost him $250 each.

Scorpions are OK but the Geolanders I had wore out faster than a cheap suit
I replaced them with BFG A/t's and they weren't worn out after 60,000, most of it towing a van

BFG have had some problems in the last couple of years with both quality and supply.

If you want a tyre to work well on the bitumen or moderate dirt, a hard compound is not going to help you.

Interesting that most of the tyres that make claims of high milage do not perform as well on the butumin or the moderate off road as some of the softer compound tyres.

Some vehicles and some drivers simply do not do well on soft compound tyres.

years ago, I ran Yokahamas on one of my street cars.....I loved em.....they stuck well, on wet or dry butimen and they where great on dirt...I got good milage .....a mate complained that he he wore a set out in 2 months......but he had a digital accelerator....it was either on or off.

the geolanders come with some sort of road hazard warranty.

I chose the scorpions...no regrets.


cheers

I can't remember a set of bfg at I wanted to keep past 40 or 50 km. At half tread they harden up and become ice skates on the road.
Pirelli is great, we have a few pk Rangers still in the fleet on them and the drivers love them, as are the yokos. I'm getting another set today. I would have gone either way or with the bridge stones but the yokos are best price by a bit at the moment in my tyre size. I had them on my last ute and guarantee no bfg at will hold a candle to them on road especially in the wet. That a tyre can travel a greater distance is pretty low on my list of priorities when buying them. Staying alive, stopping, making that swerve in an emergency.......

Geolander HT are as soft as butter and don't wear well. Geolander AT/S are a great tyre that wear very well and are very versatile. The Scorpions get a good rap from everyone and they come in a lot of sizes.

Got the yokos yesterday - very happy. They are only one size bigger than the last ones I had. Last ones 265/70/16. These 265/75/16.
The new ones are marked light truck, have a much higher max inflation and load capacity, are constructed differently, weigh more and have deeper tread. I had to go to an American site to get the low down on them.
Just a reminder to choose your tyre size and construction, then look specifically at it between brands to get any meaningful comparison at all. There are plenty of variations within each brand much less across the market, and getting to the bottom of it requires doing some solid homework. Ask a tyre salesman LAST unless they are independent and trusted.

BFG TA's are our tyre of choice, we have them fitted to 2 cruisers, 2 Prados and my Rok, but they have one flaw. In wet grass or mud the tread fills up very quickly and they become like slicks, loose all traction and (as happened to me twice) you just slide down the hill with no braking or steering (luckily there was no tree or cliff). We have BFG Muds fitted to the 3rd cruiser, they are noisier, don't wear quite as well but if you in wet grass or sticky mud they self clean making them much safer. We will be fitting BFG Muds to the other 2 cruisers because they spend more time in the paddock than on the road, the Prados will keep their AT's. Because I changed to 265/75/R16 on the Rok I can pinch the Muds from the cruiser when I head from Tom Groggin to Benambra.

Cheers

Thanks for the reply will, it seems that the pirelli scorpions are worth a try. You would like to believe that if a 4x4 mag rated them highly that they would have to be a good quality tyre. No one has bagged them so with a bit more looking into id say they might be my next choice of tyre.

when a heavily copper biased magazine rates the scorpions and the geolanders highly on two successive reviews several years apart.....they have to be worth a look.

The tread pattern on the scorpions, does not look particularly aggressive.....but it is a very clever tread pattern all the voids in the tread are tapered...this makes them shed, mud and rocks more efficiently than wider straight spaced treads....and they are much quieter on the road than many others

there are plenty of 4wd tyres out there that people either love or hate......that is not the perelli scorpion.....ya don't hear many people rave about them......but likewise you don't hear much bad news about em either.

If you want a pretty good all round performer and you are interested in "doing the hard tracks"......I don't think you can go wrong with the scorpion ATR.

cheers

Thanks Bantam, after looking into them more i agree with everything you said. I will follow this up when I've done 20-30 000 kms on them.