The score so far with my BFG AT's

Kev
get out of the car b4 you enter the hardware store in future to avoid the screws...hahahahahaha

On mt thrid set & never had a puncture..... Desert trips ........ Sand..... Gibber...... Stakes............... Even done the Finke road littered with rail spikes......... high country Oh! & bitumen.....
Not really sure why. Might have something to do with tyre pressures & how I drive to the conditions.
Oh! & I have the white lettering facing out..... If that makes any diff?

PMK

Kev
I've got the writing on the inside also, done 80000 so far and no punctures so it does pay off.

Murray

Did your tyre guy not tell you that BFGs with the lettering on the inside will always go flat on the bottom, whereas those with the lettering facing out go flat at the top, meaning you don't need to change tyres.

Your very wise mate has probably picked up a host of chipboard screws, but his tyres are holding up because the lettering is on the outside.

Honestly ... makes me wonder how some people are let loose on the road.

: )

Jack

I picked up a 50mm chipboard screw in the rear drivers side tyre and it is need of repair :( The tyres have only just done 2500km so not impressed.

The mate who got BFG's the day before with the white lettering to the outside is still driving around with no flats as yet but has only done just over 1000kms.
Kev,
Maybe your mate is a very attentive driver & drives around these sort of obstacles.

Hi Sir Kev (and Darkie!),

I have a small machine shop. I clean my driveway/loading dock area with a magnetic roller.

Message being, if you come to my place and get a flat tyre, you can be sure it is stainless steel...lol

Dave

Want to buy a Cooper?

One owner, low mileage, poodle delivery.

Geoff

Hi Kev

Screw it in tighter to stop the leak!

We picked up a screw in a caravan tyre and goodness knows how long it had been there when we noticed it. Tyre held pressure well. Three servos wouldn't do a repair saying if it is holding, don't touch it. A retired truckie said "If it starts to leak, screw it in tighter - that's what we used to do". Two - three weeks later we got someone to do a puncture repair in case the head wore off in some remote place.

I don't think you can do better than BFG ATs. Surely you aren't saying that yours are the only brand that will be punctured by a screw? Shouldn't you be blaming the screw not the brand of tyre?

Or are you just having a boring night?

Cheers

Motherhen

Kev
We did all our trip with BFG-- AT's
Think 15,000 total, and tyres now have 30,000 on them.
Very impressed, 1 puncture, scored at Wynjana gorge.

Gotta love'm.

Not sure what mileage we will get, total that is, as we chopped them up a bit. Mind you we were on the worst roads in Oz,so I expected some damage.

Vivien C, and Ray, who were with us most of the way, did not have a puncture at all. They too have BFG---AT's..

We have the lettering on the inside, no posers here ( hehehehehe) !
Cheers Mate
bucky

i'm running coopers on my td, with lettering to the outside...not a puncture in 73K and dont look like getting any for at least another 10K

they were the only decent looking things around when they went to 17inch tyres

Morning Kev,
I have the writing to the inside and damned if I can get a screw. Do you think if I turn them around my luck might change?

Noel K.

Kev,
I believe your BFG AT's are overrated.

I have a set of $7 Chinese double pluggers that have never had a flat in 30,000
foot miles. Although I have picked up numerous stakes on the back tracks, they have never had a flat. I believe this is partly due to the lettering being on the underside, thus protecting them.

There is a bit of wear and scuffing of the tread, otherwise no chipping or cracking is evident.

I have notice a strong odour coming from them, but so far this hasn't detracted from their performance.

They are excellent in mud and sand but lack a bit in rocky country. They a a bit slippery in the wet, but I overcome this with foot control.

For me, go the pluggers any day.

Have a good one.

All comments noted...and will be entered into the data base..
Still no response to my application for a Govt Grant to investigate..

I have the lettering on the outside of my BFG KM2 muds (only because I was too slow telling the tyre fitters to put it on the inside..D'oh) and no flats yet.

White letters on the inside huh . Maybe you were running them inside out .

Sure the lettering isn't turning the wrong way on the inside?

Bet one side doesn't get punctures.

One of the best tyres around in its class Kev, my set are only 8 years old with about 30,000k on them and I mainly used them as a reference set to compare others with but now its getting time to run them out as rubber is getting harder.
There pattern gives them more bite than 694's etc and noise is up a little as a result but its an evenly distributed sound that doesn't get noticed much.

White lettering is on inside of mine on the prinicpal of not attracting attention.

I have had 4 sets of Hankook tyres on 2 troup carriers, over the years , and done thousands of ks no prblems at all , not even a puncture , excellent tyres at a good price , at the start of October i needed new tyres for a trip to the centre up binns track etc , couldnt buy the New Hankooks that had been released for 6 weeks , so i bought the BF A/Ts , (white writing to the inside ) , SPLIT RIMS , i didn't make it home before all of the wheel weights came off , went back , they fitted different type of weights , i had one weight on the lh front wheel by the time i had arived at Mildura , this problem went on the whole trip , they lasted longer after mildura as i stuck them on with sillicone , i ended up going to a tyre dealer and buying a hand full of weights and banging them on myself on the old marks , 7700 km and 50 wheel weights , i now have the stick on ones on the inside of the rims , i also had a puncture on the hwy between Renmark & Mildura on the way home tube blew out , the cause of the wheel weight coming off is the huge step or ridge near the bead against the edge of the rim , as the wheel is turning the ridge on the tyre pushes the weight of the rim .
I was letting my tyres down in the dirt to 28psi rear loaded up , 25psi front , the rear tyres are very chopped up and split tread , this didn't happen with the Hankooks at all ,
i'll persist with the BFS , but will be back with the Hankooks next time
Colin