Pirelli Scorpion A/T

Have had them on a Pajero LWB for a while and they have done ~40,000km. From the wear rate it looks like we would get ~70,000 before they are finished. We will probably change them sooner because of sidewall concerns and our plans for some big trips next year on more challenging tracks.

They work well for us on bitumen and are quite quiet. On dirt roads they are good but have suffered some nasty nicks and cuts etc from rocks. I will be going for something more robust in the sidewall department.

In muddy conditions the treads quickly clog but we have rarely got bogged because they seem to aid 'floating' across the top rather than digging in. I do tend to keep the pressures down in such situations to aid bouyancy. We have been bogged badly only once in mud due to 1- bad driving, 2-heavy load, 3-high tyre pressures having just come off the black top and it was raining too hard to make it attractive to drop pressures.

Good on sand with low pressures except where there are stakes again because of sidewalls.

Hope this helps.

Had them on for 18 mths. Good on the black top & dirt but not much good for climbing in loose stuff. I have a second set of rims with BFG ATs which we put on for any trips. As said above, the side walls would worry me on rockg & gibbers.

Vince

woeful offroad. They are nothign more than a HT.

Well and truly worth paying an extra $50 for quality...

if your in Melbourne call John at beaurepairs in richmond.. he does stunning deals on tires.

I was pricing them the other day around Brisbane, while looking for tyres, B Jane said for 235/85 16 :

$250.00 Pirelli AT
$248.00 BFG AT - evidently BFG have a special on at the moment.
A lot of others were quoting $260/$265 for the BFG.
Go the BFG for that price.

Pirelli may be better on bitumen and beach, but that is about it.

as has been said above, sidewall issues would have me never fitting them again. 2 out of the 4 I put on have had the dreaded sidewall bubble. I have never experienced it with any other tyre and I haven't been anywhere all that extreme (both happenned on separate trips down the Border Track which is mostly sand).

There are other threads on these tyres if you search the archives. Some of the comments have been that they cannot take high pressures.

Regards

Trevor

thanks all , great to get so many suggestions and comments , really has helped make our mind up with what tyres to go with ! i,ll pay the money and go the BFG