kelly tyres

G'day Richard. I used to have those tyres on my old Courier. They are more road oriented (even though they are al All Terrain) than the other two tyres that you have mentioned, hence off road performance won't be as good. They are a lot cheaper though. Wear rates are meant to be real good, but I didn't find mine great at all. You will find that they are lot cheaper than the other two as well, even thought they are all US made. After 40K they looked fairly average. Kelly actually had 2 different patterns called the Safari AWR. The US made which is the common one, but their was also an Aus. made AWR which had like a diamond patterned tread. The Aus made only came in 31x10.5x15 and I think it is now discontinued. Kelly have a more aggresive pattern called the DTR(?) which is more off road oriented, but this may be too chunky for you. Cheers. What size do you have?

I've had the same LT23585R16's on my troopy for 2 years now, one pair are AWR, the othera more chunky 70/30 off road mix that I can't get again. My experience with them is that they last extremely well nad I haven't had any probelems with grip on or off road. The LT version appears extremely resistant to side wall punctures, had no punctures on the Gibb, Kimberly, or heat stress throughout the NT/SA/NSW/ACT road travel. I've not used the BFGs or Coopers, but Kellys are cheapoer, and for my money, good value.