The prices of USA made BFG tyres havent changed with the dollar!!

Kev,

But the dollar has changed in our favour by 30% in the last year.. Michael

Michael,
Channel nines news tonight mentioned that the price of fuel at the pump will go up over the next fortnight WT?
Strange Days ahead.

Do you know of a tyre dealer in the USA who will ship to Australia....bloody hard to find. Tyre importers (IMHO) are asking similar prices to dealers. I wonder if someone reading this has any suggestions!!!

Same here Bucky , hard to go past @ $295 , espically as they put more tread on the road and are taller than the wider (275) bridgestones that came with my new Patrol.

Tell me where please please

Im ready to reshod my cruiser with BFG but got quoted $397 each, and that was 2 days ago

Mine from Total Tyres Oakleigh in may 1300 660 233

Tyrepower Wonthaggi

Never go past

12 months ago? People on here are saying they get more than 60k out of them. How far did you get?

On the last set 12mths ago, not far as someone decided to buy the vehicle off me at a price I couldn't refuse about 2 mths after I put them on so they went with it. They would have had 10,000 towing km and not showing any wear.

I hadn't bought any until the other day as I was building the coaster and had MRF's on it.

Tread seperation can be caused by rotating the tyres from left to right thus running them in the opposite direction.
A tyre specialist told me NEVER to roate left to right only front to back on the same side. Why? I asked, he replied that when a tyre is first placed on a vehicle the belts "are thrown and settle" in that direction if you then rotate to the other side of the car then the tyre rotates in the opposite direction causing the wires to try to shift and this can cause seperation and blowouts.
This will happen to any brand.
Mine only get rotated front to back and I don't rotate the spare for the above reason (could need to go on either side in the case of a flat).

To date I have only suffered two flats, one was a steel star picket thru the sidewall and the other was a cracked rim.

Hey Dave,
I could understand that if they were directional tyres.
I've always rotated my tyres from left to right, front to back, diagonally without drama every 5000k's. Run @42psi.
My Desert Duelers 604V 31x10.5x15's have got 72 000k's on them now, only ever had one puncher, a Gyprock screw on a building site.
I reckon they still have another 10 000 k's easy, left in them.
Cheers.

I have never got less than 100,000km out of a set of BFG muds, in fact I will usually get rid of the vehicle first. I had one set on 3 different cars and when I sold the third vehicle and left them on (had 90,000km on them) the new owner got another 40,000km.
The KM2's grip like an allterrain and are quieter than one.

I also rotate them every which way and add to that I also turn them on the rims - No issues to date at all

Each to their own I suppose :-)

Cheers Tony

Hey Dave,
That's good mileage. What % is gravel/off road and what is bitumen?
Do you also tow much? In the first 10 000k's I hadn't rotated mine & I measured the tread depth of all four and found the rears had worn just under 2mm more than the front pair.I tow a work trailer as well as a horse float and a camper and the back as always got some work stuff in the back of it. Since rotating them at the 10 000k mark and at every 5000k the wear is even now all round.

Tony,
I rotate mine at each oil & filter change so it reminds me to do it.

Cheers

Hi Jon,
mostly bitumen 80%+, full time 4wd cruisers but when I go off road it is either into wheel lifting territory or remote touring.
The vehicle would be near to gvm most of the time.
If I miss a rotation and go to 12,000km I can start to see scolloping.

Rotate them every 5,000km

Criss Cross first then front to back..... kepes the bias even

Cheers
Bucky

Gary - That would happen anyway - we would not have to ask you :-)

Item imported into Australia and sells for 300 in Australia with the Aussie dollar at 65 cents.

One would expect when the Dollar higher that the same item should be imported cheaper and thus sold to us cheaper - Fair judgment IMHO - Old stock is a different story :-)

Cheers Tony

True. However I am not aware of any tyre companies who import by air when the the dollar is at at a particular level. You have to take a position months in advance tto import and keep stock. Therefore it just so happens that most stock is "old sstock" until the next shipment arrives at a different exchange rate.

A good businessman would be buying stock now to import and hope the Aussie dollar drops, then by the time they arrive.......well - Profit or be fair mmmmmm

:-)

All boils down to what they think they can get away with :-)

Look at Ebay imports - When item is first offered for sale at $+.... then someone sees its a good thing and gets on the import band wagon $-

Cheers Tony

You can import a Black Pine (Black Wolf) Turbo tent from the U.S. for a couple of hundred dollars less than you will pay here. Lots of suckers here with disposable incomes and the retailers know it.

I always buy my stuff in Hong Kong or US. Just bought more than 5k$ worth of radio gear in the US for over 50% less than here. Stirling chargers etc are 50% in Germany over local price. Just ordered a BB121250 for half price and they did not even have the remote control available here in Oz. In February I have a large shipment coming with spares for our trucks from the US. Freight cost is cheap compared to our prices and GST is refundable when you do it through a business.

Have fun
gmd

Yes, true, maybe the Light-force are cheaper than you can buy here. But you don't have the same costs the retailer has with a shop front (where you get to view the product), rent to pay, staff to pay, and all the other associated costs of running a business.

For those willing to import directly themselves it can pay-off, but it has downside when it comes to warranty issues.

Cheers, The Landy