Tyre wear question.

Did the warranty state that you had to have a metropolitan or major town residential address.

No, It did say (amongst other expressions) that the Warranty "is only applicable to Capital City purchases."

The Warranty Card records my vehicle details, date and mileage but not my address.

Why do you ask?

Thanks Ian. I have the 697's. I have done central road on this set and I think that took a lot off them. I was told by several to run 40 to 45 psi in them on highway but I prefer around 35 and 28 or so on dirt roads. They are a great tyre and like you have always been a Bridgestone man even on sports motor cycles. Sounds like the BFG's might be worth a try but will have a look when I go in to buy.

No I don't. Just wanted to know what I should expect. As I said tyres have had a fair bit of hard work. Just thought I might get s bit more but as you say I think I'm on the money with what I got out of them. Cheers

Thanks mate. The load isn't actually that high believe it or not. There is the outboard in the back but rest of it is just clothes and light stuff. The dingy I can lift. The tow ball weight of the camper is only 120. The rear tyres wore pretty similar to fronts. Slightly more due to slippage on dirt roads. I actually do normally run around 40 but prefer 35. From most comments on here 50000 km out of a set of tyres with a load and lots of dirt is about all I can expect and that's all I needed to know.

I had BFG A/T on a 60 ser sahara around 2001 and after 50,000km with a reasonable amount of off road and sand driving they were only half worn I was impressed with that they were a very good all round tyre cruiser weighed 2,300kg empty.

I have Kumho KL78 on my dual cab GQ at the moment mainly been on road some dirt tracks and sand due to be replaced with 110,000 k's on them. GQ weighs 2.5t plus, the tyres are good on gravel, the beach but the BFG's would handle the rougher terrain and mud better because the tread pattern is more aggressive. I would expect if they are as good as they use to be 80,000k's shouldn't be a problem.

120kg ball weight is a fair amount from a camper. I had a 16"6 pop top van once after I set it up it had an 80kg ball weight when loaded up to it's gross weight.

But do we know the compound. No we don't. Only by what people say they do with them related to wear. I have had tyres that just about make sparks they are so hard and they are dangerous in the wet but yes never wore out. We could debate this for ever but in the end it's what people prefer and what brands your bought up with and had a good run out of. Things like price certainly are a factor. Think I paid about $1250 for my set and as I said would have expected a bit more but they are good tyres and ably ever had one punctur ( rock thru sidewall) in several sets on other vehicles as well. Anyway I just wanted to know what to expect and I think my 50k is probably about right for what I've done. Nay go with them again but the BFG tyres sound good.

We don't know the compound .... but some tyres have a well known reputation for being hard and hopeless on the road.

There are many modern tyres where they do clever things with the compound, like adding silicon to the rubber mix that allows a softer compound that grips better to wear longer and chip less.

There has also been a lot of work done of tread patterns that wear, grip and shed clogging better.

There are a lot of tyres on the market that are old carcase technology, old rubber compounds and old tread patterns ...... and these are often from bigger more popular tyre companies.

Speak to a tyre salesman that knows his/her business and it just not out for the sale, ...... they WILL know about all this stuff

The Perelli Scorpion and Yokahama Geolander in all terain are good examples of this ...... both are fairly recently designed tyres, with modern tread patterns and rubber compounds ....... they have proven in testing and reviews to be very good in a wide range of situations

But people with old expectations can not understand why they work so well off road when their tread pattern does not look as aggressive as many ...... those same people wont believe how well they drive on road or how well they wear in spite of being a soft compound.

There is a whole generation of newer tyres out there, many from lesser known companies that have a point to prove and a name to make and who can not rely on those who have baught the same "old rope" tyres for the last 20 years.

The three big American brands, Bridgstone, Dunlop and Goodyear all continue to sell very old tyre designs that are past their useby date, because people continue to rebuy the same tyres over and over ...... those big specilaist 4wd tyre advertsers are little better.

Get ouit and ask some questions and look at some of the very well engineered new tyre designs that are out there.

cheers

Great advice. Thanks very much. Will have a sniff around when I go to buy. Can get confusing.

From what has been said here I don't think anyone with any tyre will get 80 k loaded and doing dirt roads. 80 is what you might get just driving round town.

That sounds pretty impressive. Your not towing tho are you? And maybe you travel light. They are probably a lot less in price than coopers or bridge stones too. Thanks for input.

No Kirk, Mickey Thompsons are not "less in price". They are right up at the top end with Coopers.

Bridgestones are an economical product. I have just run a set of Bridgesone AT-697's down but will replace them with Hankook's this time. By the time I reach age of 120 years I should be able to provide comparative results for every tyre on the market! lol

Kirk

I tow an off road camper trailer with a tare weight of just under 1.5t. Look at my profile picture.
I do not travel light. I don't know a 4WDriver who does.
They cost about $400 a tyre so they are expensive to initially purchase.

Ha that's funny Allan. Living the life you might just get there. At the end of the day it's a trade off between hard rubber and long wear depending on what you want. Probably go Bridgestone or BFGs next I think depending on what's on special at the time.