Dunlop Road Grippers- wear rate on Bitumen
Submitted: Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 19:49
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Hi All, I am considering running two sets of tyres and realise that there are pluses and minuses for this. The road/sand type of tyre that I am looking at are Road Grippers (I have some split rims that I can use -chrome with the split ring on the back) and would use MTRS on the 15 " alloys that I have for the mud and rocky stuff in winter. MTRS are getting some good reports around the place.
At the moment I have BFG A/T's on the alloys and these look like getting 90K plus which is good but I must add that you would not use them for mud as the tread is a tad low. Anyway in regard to the Road Grippers, does anyone have an idea, preferably by experience as to what type of milage you get from these based on 80/20 with the 20 being sand.
Any info much appreciated.
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Mark
Reply By: Willem - Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:02
Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:02
Dunlop Road Grippers will give you 25,000km max. They are a tough tyre however and are commonly known as Telecom Tyres 'cause in the old days Telstra used to fit them to all their vehicles. New they are very expensive...$245 each but there are plenty of 2nds to be found. Cockies like them for their trailers and farm machinery.
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Follow Up By: Boeing - Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:17
Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:17
Hi Willem, 25,000 ! it's hardly worth putting them on :). There is a place here in WA that changes over standard tyres for wide on alloys, so the tyre is basically new. They sell them for $165 and that was one of the reasons that I was looking at the grippers.
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Mark
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Follow Up By: Willem - Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:40
Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:40
Mark,
I was being a little extreme but I have run Road Grippers and that is my experience on bitumen. If you used them constanly on dirt you may get a better distance out of them. But at $165 tyre almost new it is worth a punt. Tyres like fuel are just too expensive these days
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Follow Up By: Boeing - Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:53
Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:53
Willem, you are not wrong there. It is difficult to know which way to go but I don't want to spend good money on MTR's, STT's or BFG M/T's just to have them wear down on the bitumen. The little buggers are just too expensive for that.
As you say at $165 it is worth a punt. The BFG A/T's are getting close to $300 now.
PS. Will make sure I get good tubes.
Regards
Mark
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Reply By: Peter 2 - Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:22
Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:22
Willem you must be thinking of Supergrippers or the Steeltreks (army use them on landies) I've used Roadgripper F's on troopies for 20 years, very tough tyre, get 40k min out of them usually. We only used the troopy for travelling/weekends etc no town use so it was always
well loaded and mostly 90 -100 k on the tar.
The last two sets were the Roadgripper S in 235 x16 size from the standard 100 series wagon, fantastic sand and road tyre, tended to clog in mud but much quieter and better wearing on the tar. Not as tough as a Roadgripper F (normal troopy/ute tyre) as they lean towards a 6 ply rather than an 8 ply but better mileage and as long as pressures were dropped on gibber roads (less puncture resistance) wore better than the F's, 50k approx.
The roadgripper S is also available in a 7.50 x 16 in a heavier case but same tread pattern but they don't float as
well as 235's in sand.
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Follow Up By: Peter 2 - Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:23
Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:23
I forgot to add that the tyre dealers were selling them from new vehicles for $140 each, bargain.
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Follow Up By: Boeing - Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:38
Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:38
Should have mentioned that these are the F series not the the S series.
Mark
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Follow Up By: Peter 2 - Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:45
Monday, Oct 11, 2004 at 20:45
The F's will still give you at least 40k, more if used in a lighter vehicle than a laden troopy.
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Reply By: Shaun - Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004 at 21:10
Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004 at 21:10
I got 85K out of the set of road-grippers that came new with my 99 d/c hilux. I've now got a set of yoko super grippers and they look like lasting @ 40k max. I'll be going back to the road grippers when the yoko's die.
Shaun
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