Cooper ST

Do a forum search.....HUGE problem I am led to belive

Hope you have 4 spare days to read them all

Good luck

Cheers Stefan

Every one has issues with coopers they are the best tyre in the world.

Well that's what they recon in there adds

All the best
Eric

Cape york connections

How often have you rotated them? The firm that I bought mine from swap them around free every 5 thousand Ks. Mine are the HT 275 75 17 on a 100 series

Have moved from BFG AT's to Cooper ST's.
Have had them for approx 10,000 kays and they are chopped up and worn.
Biggest mistake I ever made.

Live and learn I suppose.

Hi Ray,

Everyone has an opinion on Coopers and I have had an excellent run with them. But they are prone to scalloping unless you rotate them regularly.

I do this every 5,000kms to the 285/75 ST's on my GU and achieved over 80,000kms with very even wear on my first set and now have 25,000 kms on my second set and expect to get at least 80,000kms out of them.

A lot of factors affect tyre wear so very hard to compare unless on the same vehicle under the same conditions. But interestingly I went away from BFG T/A's after a bad experience with them yet others are saying the exact opposite. Just goes to show that not all experiences are the same!!!

Cheers

Captain

Interesting issue. I have used Coopers and BFG. With the Coopers you NEED to do all the recommended things ie rotate and wheel alignment etc. If treated this way you ususally get a good run out of them. I was orignially disapointed but in retrospect I think the issue is that you compare your own experience to the hype. The more hype the more disappointed you will be. I found the BFG AT's "better" but in reality I asked a few people what they use. At the time BFG were the go but all I got told was "using BFG's and they seem to be ok". So there was no hype. In reality they performed similarly (maybe a bit more chipping). These days I use splits, not very sexy at present so no hype. I usually avoid issues by changeing them early. I'm happy to see the back of them even if they have 20,000km left on them if I am about to do a 15,000km trip. Why on earth people go to remote areas with tyres that are on there death beds then complain about the number of punctures is still a mystery to me. If you are that upset about it keep the rubber and use them locally not on a long trip. You get enough punctures without getting a few that would have been avoided with a bit more rubber.

Steve

G'day Little Ray,

Yes, its annoying when the tyre wears like that. The starting point to find the solution is get a wheel alignment and rotate your tyres more regularly.

IMHO, this type of wear is independent of tyre brand.

cheers Anthony

My experience with both Cooper tyres & their so called "warranty" was dreadful.

As far as i'm concerned, buying Cooper tyres after reading this forum is like playing 'Russion Roulette' with 5 bullets in the gun!

Well well, I used to get caned a couple of years ago when I bagged Coopers and now it seems the test of time has created more critics.
I still maintain to this day that with regular rotating at 5000 and constant checks and adjustmaent to tyre pressures I can get Coopers 80K out of most tyres half their price.
Just look at the coopers publicity machine it reminds me of a diesel bloke who goes to all the shows and advertises being the best and I wouldn't spit on his work either.

I came to the conclusion that providers of good products dont have to advertise, happy customers do it for them.

What a failure I am at this tyre game...run Firestone Firehawk RMT
on Hilux Sprayrig, 80% offroad , never rotate, never needed wheel alignment in 500k & never experienced any scalloping
either. All run at 50psi all the time. If you fiddle around with pressure or run too low you will wear the consequences, pun intended. This includes Coopers, only ever had 2. one staked on second day, the other still carried as spare...no scalloping on it
either. That explains it all for me, or am I just lucky :)))...oldbaz.

Ray as much as I detest Coopers at the best of times in this case scalloping may not necessarily be the tyres fault & is quite likely a result of an alignment, suspension or balance issue. Rotating tyres that are stepped like this is only masking the problem although it does tend to square them up & increase their life. Coopers tread compound may make them more susceptible to stepping but I doubt it's the root cause.
We have F250's that step the tyres requiring them to be rotated at 15K or if you don't they are just uncontrollable by 20K. Others have simply fixed the problem with a castor correction kit but Orix fleet are too tight to do the repair on ours choosing instead to replace tyres more often.
Cheers Craig..........

hi . I had a set of cooper st and was lucky to get 20.000km out of them on my old GQ I rotated every 5.000km . they were only used for trips as i have a full set of road tyres that i run when at home . Then i tried a set of Goodyear Wrangler MTR'S . They have done 2 big trips , Cape York & Simpson Desert also 12-15 trips to Four Wheel Drive Parks .. approx 18.000km sure they are pretty cut up . but no uneven wear or scolloping all tread depth same . I reckon i will get at least 1 more big trip out of them maybe more ......also not one punture . I still think it is the hard black stuff that kills the tyres