old tyres for outback or new

Get new ones before you go. Too many dramas with old tyres on rocky outback roads. 80% of punctures happen during the last 20% of a tyres life.

Cheers
Phil

At 60ks they wont have much tread left on them. New ones would be less susceptible to punctures and have more grip. I'd get new ones but carry a couple of the oldies as spares.

Cheers, John.

Jackablue,

Go the new tyres for the vehicle and for the spares. If you should happen to get a flat with a new tyre and you put on a worn spare then the worn spare is more likley to get a flat. Soon you will have no spares and two flat tyres.

If the you have a choise of partly worn tyres and new ones, put the new ones on the back. 99% of flates in outback travel will happen on the rear so put the tyres with the most tread on the back.

Wayne

Agree with all - go NEW.

Well I just wanted some dumb opinions. I spoke to a tyre place about a month ago about getting some new tyres for an upcoming trip and he had recommended that I go on the old ones as the new ones will get shreaded, & be a waste of money & wait until I get back to get the new ones. He told me all the smart people do this.(speaking like this to me really sold me?) So I must be a dumb#^&e!. His theory was that you are more likely to get a flat due to the sidewall staking etc rather than the tread so new tyres would be no different.

I would have thought new tyres may get a flat or 2 as opposed to 5 shreaded flats on an old ones.

Hi Jackablue,
My husband and I have done some extensive travel throughout Oz and found that there are some really bad tyres out there, and boy have we had some hassles with new and used tyres I could name them all but the list would go on an on.... BUT it is always best to travel with new ones and especially the spares,
Once we were stuck in an out back town (or should i say pub) with only a shop and a small service station for 4 days until a replacement tyre was couriered in from a major city ....
SO on our last trip up Cape York we used new goodyear wrangler's and we did not have a problem they handled any road or track conditions we threw at them, and have been home for approx 5 months and there still goin'
our next trip will envolve having extra spare's where there is room...

Peace
Niikki

jackablue
go new
its not only staking of tyres that slows you down
cheers
fozzy

jackablue,
I am going to risk a public flogging on this topic and go against the flow. At one of the group meetings before our Cape trip several years ago, i mentioned that i was putting new Duellers on for the trip. The popular opinion was that i go with the old Duellers that were nearing death, instead of running the chance of ruining a new tyre. This i did and the only tyre trouble i had was picking up a metal thread screw at Seisia. Another vehicle (5 in all) picked up a nail at the same place. The only tyre trouble from the road was aq fracture to a relatively new BFG A/T from a rock.
It worked for me, but who knows i might have been lucky.
Cheers,
Bros.

Get rid of the old ones - they will only bring grief. I used that logic once and came unstuck. Ended up buying a new set of tyres in Birdsville. Yes, it is character building to alight to examine a near new $300 tyre flapping around on a rim, but it is only money.