BFG or Cooper

Hey RayB

I copy and pasted this of a post I did the other day.

I swear by the OZ made Bridgestone A/T duellers, I run them on 4 Landcruisers and done so for the last 6 years.

D693 265/75R/16s

These tour trucks work hard between Arnhemland, Kakadu and Broome, just make sure that there Oz Made as they are a much stronger tyre than the Japanese made ones.

I've never had a tyre let go yet, in fact I put another set on my new truck last Saturday and I need to replace another set on the troopy soon and that will be my 11th set.

I also get over 60000 km per set.

To me that is tried and tested.

Profits stay in OZ.

Cheers Steve.

Ask Willem about coopers - he has 8 in his shed he will sell you REALLY cheap.... :)

I'd go MTR's.

have had coopers and bfg's i found the coopers were very suseptable to damage in the side walls. i always seem to end up back with bfg mud or all terrain
cheers donnnny

Watch all the opinions come out of the woodwork now!

I had several sets of BFG TA's on my 80 series and had a very good run until the 3rd set. Changed over to Coopers ST's when I got my GU 3.0TD and only replaced them this weekend after 86,000km. Still had ~35% tread but have now put them on my camper + used for spares.

While I had a very good run with the ST's and was more than happy to buy them again, others have had issues. But then again others have had a good run with BFG's while I had issues!!!

Bottom line is, both are good tyres but YMMV

Cheers

Captain

On second set of 285/75/R16 BFG AT's on a GU 2.8 Patrol. A mate had the tyre dealer tell him these are illegal on a GU so he got 265's but this is shiezer. The 285's make the GU speedo almost accurate at highway speeds (102km/hr on GPS, 100 on speedo) where it was (94km/hr GPS, 100 on speedo before).

As I said the other day these tires run on my four trucks and yet to have a problem. Got them for $275 fitted and balanced each on 98 GU ST steel rims. From memory 285/75Cooper ST's were $307 each and 265/75 ATR's were $260 ea.

The work truck and GU do alot of highway and sand kilometers but both have gone to the cape three times each without probs. The Jeep and Bush Basher have done everything and no probs either. Tried the rest (coopers, yokohama, pirelli, factory fitted bridgestones) and will not go back to any of them.

This question is just like starting another Toyota Vs Nissan war........ and seing as I own both I going to be a lazy fence sitter when answering this specific question.

I recommend Evakool tyres on your Engel Patrol Cruiser

If most of your driving is on bitumen with the occasional dirt trip why not have a look at the Michellin LTX AT's.

Mate of mine is running them out of Broken Hill on a 3lt GU and has over 80,000km so far. He reckons he will replace them in a month or so. That would mean he would have done about 90,000km on them with no problems at all.

He does a bit of playing and has been on a couple of trips with me to the Flinders Ranges and Innamincka. We did some pretty high speeds on dirt roads on the way back from Innamincka too.

I am running Cooper ST/C's and am reasonably happy with them too.

Duncs

I'm not going to buy into the argument between brands as I've never tried the Coopers on my own vehicle. I have had BFG's and I work in country guaranteed to puncture tyres, and yet with 115,000 km in two years in my Pajero, I have no idea where the jack is in that car. That should tell you something.