Friday, May 02, 2008 at 16:33
I always get confused with these posts. If you are travelling on bitumen all the time buy a softroader. 80,000+ kms on tyres - who gives a toss unless you're driving on road/dirt tracks all the time. Why did you buy a grippy tyre in the first place?? why buy AT, ST, etc and spend 30,000kms or so with little grip. Sure it's legal tread still.
If I buy a 4x4 for travelling, towing work then yes I would care, but my 4x4s do this and what they're designed for. And I wouldn't be riding around on bugger all tread.
I bought an 03 Hilux Sr5 v6 new with the standard Bridgestone Dueler HTs on them. They were crap. I seriously got 27,000kms out of them before almost illegal tread depth.
Mine is the V6 and I don't drive slow, so maybe that had something to do with it. I then bought Cooper ATs and got 40,000kms out of them. I then changed to Cooper STTs and got approx another 40,000kms out of them. I now have new Cooper STTs and it has 115,000kms total. I like the STTs.
On my Prado I replaced the standard crap with BFG AT and love these tyres. In my opinion they are better than Coopers. I don't know how many kms I've put on them. Its an 04 petrol Prado with 113,000kms and have done thousands of off road kms on the BFGs. Quiet and impressive grip. Just thinking though - i might have 40,000+ on these since June last year and they're in pretty good nick. I might get another 10,000 or so.
You can have them when I'm finished and get another 50,000kms on them.....
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