Cooper ATR Tyres - Mileage

Cooper's " CONCRETE " warranty..

Thats it you drive them off the concrete, at the tyre place and thats it ,,

Don't believe me , ???, then read all the fineprint about their warranty.

I cannot complain about mine, but I know a lot of people wha recon their shyte !

Read post by me above.

Cheers Bucky

One of my AT's cracked from the edge of the lug right in to the steel casing, it had done 15,000 (hard) kilometers. The dealer said "normal wear and tear". I will never go to him or buy Coopers again.
Doug

Hi Craig
Well said, my exact experience! Coopers are a joke, haggle,haggle, yes sir we can give you 30% of a new set! What the f----! You think i want to wreck another holiday by using Cooper's. No way. The burnt hand teaches the best lesson.
Cheers Lyndon

I wouldn't say Cooper are a joke in fact they are very clever particulary with marketing. Flood the media with advertising, build up a reputation by paying high profile 4 wheel drive identities to say they're great, then offer an 80,000+KM warrenty (on certain types) that requires buyers to come in every 10,000KM & pay for wheel balances & alignments that often aren't required. Then if you are one of the minority that really goes offroad & the tyres did happen to fail then they say you abused them, but in good faith offer you another set anyway for 30% off. Doesn't cost them anything but forces you to put another set on that without the warrenty you most likely would have gone to another brand.
Somes tyres like MTR's, sell on word of mouth, others like BFG sell on offroad racing performance, Coopers sell on marketing.
Cheers Craig............

The so called warranty only applies in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane, if you actually ask them. The other capitals are too close to the Outback! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The Mileage Warranty is only applicable at participating authorised Cooper agents in capital cities within Australia.
Ask the tyre dealer if they participate in this programme. Most capital city stores do. All country stores do not.

How to maintain the warranty
Every 10,000 kms you need to return to any authorised Cooper dealer to have your tyres balanced aligned and rotated. Participating dealers will endorse the Warranty Card. Every dealer has the right to refuse endorsing your warranty card if a fault is present in your vehicle that is causing erratic or rapid tyre wear.

What it will cost you
Check the Warranty Card as it has a special low price for Cooper customers.

How to Claim on any Shortfall
As long as an authorised Cooper dealer has endorsed your warranty card every 10,000 kms and the original warranty card and invoices for the regular services are forwarded to your Cooper state distributor. The Cooper state distributor will then organize through an authorised Cooper dealer to credit you with any shortfall you may be eligible for based on the warranty conditions off your next purchase.

That's correct Steve , and just figure out how much those regular visits to your tyre dealer would cost to uphold these absurd warranty conditions .

The Cooper warranty is a farce because it is not financially viable to stay within it's terms .

I have had Cooper ATR which lost heaps of the side treads . ARB said they had been told by Cooper that this had now been fixed - so I bought another set . You should see mine after a 15,000 klm WA trip . Plenty of lugs missing and lots of lug damage .

I blew the complete side out of one on a dirt road at 100 klm an hour - exciting . Maybe not the fault of the tyre - who knows .

I bought a new Bridgestone to replace it and I will never use Coopers again .

Willie .

10 mm of tread left after 89,000km???

They only have 11mm when new..... At that rate of wear they will get 800,000km and probably outlast 3 Navaras! lol.

I have these tyres and they are at 5-6mm after 40,000km.

Muddy

Muddy

Did you not check them with Cooper's depth thread guage ?

ATR's have heaps of thread, and its probably 13-14 mm deep from new. ( don't quote me on that, I might be a mil or 3 out )
Mine are LT245/17-16 !, reason being they mimick the original tyre size of my Navara, guess the deep thread, is part of the LT range.

Check out thier site if you like
This could explain why they ride like bricks, Light Truck tyres !

Did you get yours from Roachie ?

All jokes aside, I think I will be looking for Wrangler's, or BFG AT's, next time !
Mainly for the softer ride, and still get a bloody tough tyre

Cheers Mate
Bucky !

Make that tyre size 245/75/R16....
Cheers Bucky

Yep, My other set are Goodyear MTR's in same size. These are on the Prado at the moment.

Noisy as hell but are a great tough all-rounder biased towards off-road. Can highly recommend them.

The ATR's are for hwy work if there is not too arduos 4WDing at the other end of the trip. The MTR's are for anything more serious.

Muddy