Dunlop Grand Trek 2

The standard tyres supplied by Toyota on new vehicles are a waste of time off road. Bubbling and having to throw them away is the best thing that happened on the trip.
They are made for the 90% of 4WD'ers that never go off the bitumen.
They were on my vehicle when I purchased them and on any trips it was always me that got punctures. (5 on a 2week trip was common)
I now run toyo's and for what I'ts worth, I'm happy with them.

Never say that you have reduced tyre pressure wile off road to a dealer or tyre rep, It just gives them a way out, if I wanted to try and make a warranty claim on tyres I would not even mention that they had been used on anything but a sealed road.

Dunlop Grandtheft's !!!

Regards Ken.

I have a 2001 Prado which had Dunlop grandtreks and the first set wore out at 110,000km and that is not rotating the spare. I then bought another three grandtreks and used the spare as the fourth. Granted the vehicle has done most of its km's on the bitumen, but has also towed our van to Birdsville etc and never a flat tyre or problem.

On out Birdsville races trip there were heaps of people with flat tyres on the side of the road, but our Grandtreks (which had the pressures reduced by about a third) worked perfectly. I can also say that the ones that had the flat tyres later passed us at stupid speeds for those roads and some even had more flats further on.

For tyre longevity you need to drive to the road conditions and have the tyre pressures adjusted to suit the conditions. We have travelled through central Australia (Innamincka) Strezelecki track etc and have not yet had a flat of even a damaged tyre.

Brian DJ