Silent Armour

Salties
I have had the 285's on the 100 series for a couple of months now and could not be happier. Sand and dune (beach) driving fantastic and very quiet on the road(hence the name I suppose).

Had ours only a short while and they handle well in the wet, quiet too.

** Make sure if they sourced them from here and there that they are all brand new!

When we got ours fitted I bumped into the people who I sold the troopy rear seats to & they had just had their troopy spare replaced with a SA and as I was standing there at the back door talking I noticed the edges on the supposedly new tyre were slightly worn!

This was pointed out to the dealer who acted genuinely surprised and swore he was going to tear a strip off whoever was responsible. He suggested it may have been used on a display vehicle or similar and put back in circulation.

He said this was more common than people thought. He'd heard of tyres being fitted to a display vehicle for a 4wd weekend at Landcruiser Mountain Park and then sold later as new. I've dealt with this tyre dealer before and he has always been excellent making sure you're happy etc.

I still quietly checked that all my 6 'new' tyres were 'new'.
John

Hope you have a good run. First impressions are usually good with tyres. But I'm sure you'll have a good run out of them on the prado.

The only thing that bothers me about tyre threads is when someone takes your suggestion and then stakes one the next week :-((( Davoe knows all about this!!
I'll try mine out in Tassie next week - might see a bit of mud which would be novel to a South Aussie.

RovingOz

Nah they all seem new had stickers on the tread and blue protection paint on the white wall writing and they were sourced in NSW. I did notice on the side wall that it displayed 6 ply + 2 x steel + Kevlar. The Cooper S/T that I had previously were 8 ply and was aware at the time that I could have also gone for the 10 ply but after talking to the importers they suggested to go for the 8 ply for the prado for the coopers. I take it that with the Kevlar the S/A would still be as good if not better then the 8 ply. Also noticed that load rating on the Cooper S/T are D and they are E on the S/A from memory speaking to the tyre dealers the S/A were over 120 for the load rating which is supposed to be high. Spoke to some guys in the outback and they use the load rating as a guide of the strength of the tyre as well as the weight capacity. Looking at the pattern of the S/A compared to the Coopers S/T the coopers maybe more suited to mud as the blocks are wider apart but everything else the S/A seem to have a lot of good points, obviously the two wide grooves in the tyre must work well for the water dispersion.