Hankook Tyres

Bought a set when they first came out I think...had the made in Korea on the outsides. Did the Cape with no worries and got excellent mileage out of them.
I remember one bloke asking me what was I doing up there with CHINESE tyres on heheheheheh

Hopefully they have improved Doug.

I bought a set in the late 80's and they were rubbish. But then again so were Aus Dunlop and Bridgestones were good then but rubbish now.

Seems the quality comes and goes with tyres.

Cheers

" The Farm"s Been sold !!. So things made in china, Korea, India, Whatever, is something we all have to learn to live with whether we like it or not.

Cheers.

Doug,

Had a set of hankooks on my old Jackaroo about 3 years ago. I got great mileage from them and only had one puncture. Did a lot of driving on the gravel roads in the pilbara and found they handled well. Mine were 235/85/16s and would recommend them as a cheaper alternative.

Cheers.

As I have said in previous posts the only tyre I run on my split rims on the troopy are 235/85/16 Hankooks and have had great performance from them averaging 70000kms.They are very good on the rough stuff and also a good allround tyre with a 10 ply rating.Ihave tried Dunlop Rroadgrippers---Rubish, Bridgestone which were not too bad but had uneven wear on the bitumen so I have decided to stick with Hankook whether. from Korea,China or else.Just make sure not to underinflate as some of the tyre companys are very wrong with the tyre pressures they reccomend for the bush--just my opinion from experience over thousands of klms.

Hi all

have 6 - 7.50x16 hankook z59's on my isuzu truck - on 12 plys have done many of the tracks - cut line, walkers, strizlecki, birdsville, oonadatta, donohue/plenty, tanami, gibb river, gary junction etc - and bitumen in between - got abt 80k on the 12 plys - did have some problems with flats on them - not on the tracks but on the bitumen - reckon it was a tyre pressure problem - I was running them far too low - heat up and swallow the tube - now have a set of 16 plys - running them a fair bit harder on the bitumen with no problems - will continue with lower pressure and speed on the tracks though

smort

PS: no shares in hankook or any tyre services

Hi Doug
Dont be worried about the made in Korea thing mate , i have run the Hankook Dynapro's on my last 2 vehicles and cant praise them enough , my last set i got 80000 ks out of and they were still on the vehicle when i sold it....i would still be running with Hankooks now only my son has just started a tyre store and supplied me with a set of Jetzons ,made by coopers in USA for nearly less than half the price of the Hankooks ....dont seem to bad a tyre but only had them on a week now so will see how they go, i'll give an update on them on here after my trip up Nth this coming june...........Cheers ........Dave