Tyre Wear on muddies

Mate of mine got something in the order of 80,000km from his 235/85x16 BFG MT's with mostly road use. The second set he fitted is the newer design with the digger lugz on the sides and they are wearing faster, I think they were half gone at 25,000km when he took them off and fitted Coopers.
Don't think BFG's are what they used to be, quite frankly.

Do a search on this forum.
Ive posted quite a lot about the muddies and given wear and klm figures and info re comparison between BFG MT KMs and MTRs also tips or maximising wear. Do a search going back 12 months and more- far too much to repeat again. I posted some info in the last couple of days, - its all there and more.
happy hunting
kezza

I've got 255/85 R16's on my Troopy. They have 15,000 kms on and the wear is negligable. If this continues I'll be looking at 60,000+.

Great wear, pity about handling on wet bitumen - like ice skating!!!! In all other conditios they are awesome! Anyone else have this problem?

The new generation BFG MT designated 'KM' accordin to every forum on the net are VERY SOFT SIDEWALLS, also they are wearing very quick. try any of the other forums. Some are saying 30,000klms and they are shot!

I had PRE KM BFG's and loved them, they are now on another car from this forum, and just did a large melbourne-qld-melb treck without a hitch! They would easily get 70,000, but the new KM/s depending on what you do, arent getting anywhere near that.

The MTR's are also SOFT! mine you can twist the knobs! Klms, I think that they are going to be 40-50,000klms tires, others are saying similar things, but then depends on what you are doing. 50,000 is 2 yrs anyway.

The thing is, we are all askin' for the best of everything - a tire that grips in every condition(Rock, Mud, snow, road, wet, dusty, firetrails etc), wears 100,000klms, I dont think they dont exist anymore...

As someone on another forum stated, it seems like tire companies have clicked onto the fact that they can make more $$ buy doing this forcing you to buy more tires...

You have to compromise.

The best option is to run a set of AT's for weekdays, and something SERIOUS for weekends. but thats twice the price :(

Im going to do that next tire change, get something like Cooper ST's for weekdays, and then some Centipedes or similar for weekends on different rims.

My USA made BFG MT KMs still have over 11mm of tread after 32000klms looks like 70,000 or more out of them. I watch my pressures and rotate every 5-7,000km and they are very good on wet bitumen (compared to every other AT or MT tyre I have used)
just for the record

kes

G'Day,
My brother just replaced his BFG M/T's at 105,000km's.
Of the four that he replaced he kept three of them as they are still roadworthy and good enough to use on his trailer.( the fourth one had a slight bulge in the tread).
Needless to say he has replaced them with BFG M/T's again.
Marty.

PS. I also run tem on my 60series.

Cruza - check out post 5295 for a fair bit on the MTRs
kes