I thought that Coopers had fixed the side lugs tearing off

Yer need tyres like mine....but then yer needs a heavy duty Hi Fi system and sub woofers to drown out the road noise....LOL

Yer can hear me coming two miles away.....hahahaha

PS Next time you pass by.......I have some spare Coopers in my garage. You can have 'em :-)

Cheers

I don't understand why people keep buying Coopers.

They chip & the lugs rip off ...... WHAT'S NEW!

Willie,
I thought Coopers were only good for bitumen, but you're destroying that idea as well!!

We need Pics!!!

if you put a rope through a cooper ST and hang it from a tree you can give the kids something to play with, other than that i cant really think of a good use for one.....maybe smoke signals..

Willie,
I was looking at a set of tyres on Friday. The ARB shop down here deal in Coopers and MT's. The guy told me right up front that the Coopers rip lugs off no question about it.

I'm buying the MT's.

Toytruck

The glowing endorsements by all those people in the Coopertire advertising puts me right off.

The 4wdmonthly advertorials on DVD do the same.

Here is my last set of Cooper ST/Cs

These were replaced under warrenty, with STTs, they are gone now as they started falling apart too, we decided NOT to go with Coopers again under their warrenty plan and went with Nankang Muds instead.

My opinion on Coopers is THEY ARE CRAP.

Tread block completely gone


Coming off




All 4 were like this

Have i mentioned COOPERS ARE CRAP

Baz.

When I was recently looking for tyres, I was put off by the fact the coopers only had an 'N' speed rating which is 140km/h. It's not too hard to get close to that speed when overtaking etc. Most of the other tyres I checked had an 'S' rating of 180 km/h. A much bigger margin of error in my mind, even if travelling no where near those speeds.

Well I run Cooper ATR's and have found them no problems so far in 50.000 klms mind you i'm not doing the real outback stuff many of you are. I am about to purchase some new tyres 2 in fact before I head to the Flinders in a few weeks just so I have depth in the tread and use the Coopers as spares.

I am looking at trying MT and put them on the front they have the same rolling diamiter as the Coopers (so i'm told). Why MT simple to try a different brand, I may even look at the bridgestones.

I just gotta work out if its worth mixing tyres.

Brian

If you have any doubts about Cooper tyres then look at the tyre dumps in a place like Alice Springs. I am sure there is not the same percentage on 4WDs as in the dumps.
From experiece there are tyres suitable for towing and others not. Most tyres are good for something even if it is holding down the tarp.

I agree. Toyo Open Country are better than Coopers ATR. I could't believe how much the Coopers cut up on the Oodnadatta Track. Large chunks about inch square out of the tread on all tyres. In fact we lost a new one (Spare) A complete ripout of the tread, after a puncture. I had them rotated as per the warranty etc .
I since changed them at 30000ks In Alice Springs to the Toyo Open Country ATR and are extremely happy.
Incidently I am towing a Australian Offroad Camper Cross Terrain which has Sumitomo ATR and they have no chips out of the treads and look like new.
I paid particular attention to Tyre pressures in accordance with the Manufactures reccommondations.
Coopers are a disappointment and I will not reccommend them to anybody.

I am running Cooper ATR's 285 x 16. Have done 40000k with no problems, but mostly black top and sand. Looking at going to the centre and cape. What tyre should I be getting to replace the Cooper's then? 80-90% black top driving. Have a 100 series IFS.
A

Hi all

I ran the Goodyear silent armour last trip on the oodnadatta and a lot of flinders trip arkaroola not one bit of dammage highly recommend but i dont think very good in the boggy conditions

Dave T

I am reading this post with interest,

I am about to put new tyres on my Standard 100 Series (split rims) for a trip into the Kimberly. I was going Cooper ST, but not now.

My second choice is BFG A/T 235/85/16. What are people's thoughts on the good old Bridgestone Desert Dueller 604V pattern. I have had these in the past with no issues and it would be a cheap way out. Although, the BFG A/T is rated to carry more weight.

Can you help me to decide ??

Thanks

Well sounds like my Cooper ATR's will be tested in a few weeks to Flinders might take some photo's before I go when I get there and when home and see what they turn out like. Not that I will be covering a lot of area only about 4000 klms but should give a indication what is happening with them. Time will tell.

I will also have two new tyres on what these will be I'm not sure as said earlier maybe Micky Thompson will look at some bridgestones and check there prices.

The only issue is I guess is different brand tyres, which i'm not a great lover of. At least that will give me 2 new on the front and 2 on rear with 70% and two spares with approximately 70% so

I agree with you, Shaker about first hand. Perhaps I should have noted that my wider investigaions with tyre dealers and experienced 4wd people gave difficult to rationalise opinions. Checking other tyre threads show other first hand experience with wide differences of opinion. I supose we just have to live with what best we know when its time to make the tyre choice. Talking of choice has anyone a reference to any Choice Magasine articles on 4WD tyres?

After reading your opinions of Cooper tyres thought Id give you our lowdown on them. Put Cooper ST's on our brand new Landcruiser RV ute took off for round Australia trip, rotated every 10000 ks after 30000 ks huge horizontal cracks and bulges appeared on the sidewalls of two passenger side tyres....took them off and put on two spares (10000 ks on them after rotation) went back to dealer after much discussion they prorata'd two tyres when they took them off the rims they discovered that the RV alloys were damaged. So we had to replace the rims as well So four Steel rims were purchased. Then we started investigating just what caused the rims to deteriorate we were duck shoved betweem Toyota and Cooper tyres for a few months and they eventually rang us to say that a recall on ST's x16 (our size)had been put in place because of bulging sidewalls which they blamed on the rubber compound. 6 new tyres and no rims off we go again feeling slightly better about Cooper Tyres 20,000 ks later we are travelling along and I check the tyres as you do and bugger me a whole lug is gone down to the wire. Now I am a patient man but I am not even contacting Coopers again (a mans had enough of the bull bleep ) And the only use I have for them is to drop fuel drums off the back of the ute onto and even then I still have to check the sidewalls for damage!!!