Bridgestone Desert Duelers - again

Your lucky you didn't buy Dunlop Grandtrek AT. Made the mistake of buying them. Bald in a little over 30,000 kms.

Had Desert Duellers on the vehicle before. Got 60,000 kms out of them. I didn't have any blow outs.

Hopeless if towing heavy wieghts I had 3 of mine blow out on my last trip the side walls just blow out and 2 of them where on tared roads these two wher less than half of the tred used.

I had to by 5 new tyres in Clairmont. I put cooper tyres on as they where the only tyre they had 5 of and cost me $1700 for the 5 tyres and what i estermated to be $2500 for the damage to the car from the blown out Bridgestones ended up being over $4000.

Not Happy Your not alone.

BBB

hmmm,

the 16s must be a little weeker than my 15inch 604v's. 50000 km + and no sign of stopping, approx 30% wear, one small nick in the side wall.

Out of interest, what is the ply rating of the AT's?

cheers
Mike

Responded on another forum. In summary I woudn't put D694's on a heavy vehicle again.

Thanks for the info. Out of curiosity, anyone running Simex tyres?. I'll need to
replace my set of rubber within the next 6 months. They are certainly not expensive,
but it seems in the tyre business that you don't always get what you pay for.

cheers
T-Rib

Steve,

As you're running split rims, what brand tubes do you have? I'm guessing they are Korean garbage.

I stopped using split rims when it became too hard to get decent tubes.