Mickey Thompson Tyres

My neighbour has recently put the Radial Claws (I think) on his 80 series, he'd always had BFG A/Ts previously. He's rapt in them so far, about 15000kms of outback gravel and some off road tracks.

Any claws suffer from lateral grip.

Bar tread like Claws, boggers etc, have nothing to stop them sliding sideways the tread goes from center out to side and nothing in the middle.

So if they were Radial claws, or Bias Claws, have a look around, much better tires out there for general purpose...

Im with truckster on this one . Also they dont self clean to well either .

100 is that from the magazine that always gives it's advertisers and unobjective boost>

I have MT Dick Cepek's. They are not a muddy so don't expect muddy performance. I've done 20,000ks and am reasonably happy. On our outback trip (see web site) we did 7,000k's mostly off black top. They got pretty chopped up. As far a grip is concerned I reckon they are very good. On black top, the high country, outback & desert I've had no problems at all - they are a very good A/T. And although noiser than a road tyre are not too noisy SWMBC drives our LC100 more than I do and doesn't complain.

So long as you are after an A/T style tyre I'd be happy to reccomend them. But don't call me if you get stuck in the mud.

Gaz

Hi,
Got a set of the MTX on my 100 series and have done Oodnatta - across Simpson -Birdsville with another vehicle with me having the Dick Cepek tyres on and both had no troubles at all.
Have done 30,000 so far and for a non mud terrain tyre also found them to be good in the mud I would recommend them to others and have done so and all are still happy to date.
For someone with heaps of tyre knowledge call Darren 08 8374 2612 in Adelaide and fire away all the questions you can think of.

Ive got the Dick Cepeks on our prado (265X75X16) and am much happier with them than the BFG A/Ts I had previosly on another vehicle. We just spent some time on Moreton and Fraser islands and they handled the sand perfectly, we just spent the last weekend in the high country where there was PLENTY mud and snow(yes snow) and again they were perfect.
They are much louder than the bfgs on the black top,but off road they work beautifully, they seem to clean out well in mud also as we always seem to be moving forward each time, sometimes we dont have the centre diff lock engaged and they still got heaps of go.
Our Vehicle has had no major mods just the tyres and that magnificent fridge in the back.
Id say go getem