Tyres for a new Prado
Submitted: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 16:39
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TOOLEY
Hi all, I am looking at purchasing a new Prado & want put some tyres for a little off road & lots of gravel driving in WA. A couple of suggestions have been Hankook Dynapro RF10 AT or Cooper Discoverer AT3.
Your thoughts & experiences would be great.
Cheers Tooley
Reply By: Stephen L - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 17:07
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 17:07
I put Bridgestone 694 LT's on mine and have been happy. Do very much the same driving as you plan to.
Toyota are in the final stages of releasing an updated for the 150 Prado. MAKE SURE YOU ASK FOR IT/ABOUT IT. My rear bumper has been sandblasted from driving on formed gravel roads. Toyota say they will replace the flaps under warranty and respray the bumper.
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Reply By: TTD1 - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 17:25
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 17:25
Tooley
I have just fitted Bridgestone 694 LT's to my 120 and after a quick trip to Lake Eyre and back including 2000ks of dirt am very impressed. Over the years had both BFG At and Cooper At's and short term reckon these tick all the boxes , time will tell on the wear front. Coopers would be my last choice.
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Reply By: Member - Bruce T (SA) - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 18:01
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 18:01
We've just put on Cooper Discoverer AT3 on our Prado and immediately went to the Flinders towing a van and we also did some gravel work and riverbed travel. The tyres performed
well. Noisier than the Grand
Treks but held the various types of roads
well.
We've always had BFGs previously.
Cheers,
Bruce and Di
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Reply By: deserter - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 18:25
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 18:25
I am on my second set of Goodyear Silent Armour on my 120. I got 105k out of the first set. Outstanding. No probs on sand/mud/rocks etc.
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Reply By: Member - Tony Z (NSW) - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 19:39
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 19:39
Hi TOOLEY, I drive a Pajero and have Bridgestone 17 x 964Lt up to 65000km out of them - 70 bitumen 30 gravel - sand - gibber outback roads with no punctures, and will get them again but have looked at BFG'S No way Cooper's, but thats only my opinion after see and talking to people that have them.
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Reply By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 20:04
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 20:04
Hi Tooley
I am like a good number of replies that you have already received and run the Bridgestone 694 LT on my Prado. No road noise what so ever and you would swear that you were running Highway tyres on the vehicle. They have seen a lot of driving over in your great desert track in WA including:
Connie Sue Highway
Anne Beadell HighwayDavid Carnegie RoadGreat Central RoadGunbarrel Highway
Cocklebiddy to
Rawlinna Track
Trans Access Road to Kalgoorlie
Simpson DesertBirdsville Track
plus lots of other bush tracks
Yes I have ruined one tyre while on some cross country work out in the
Sydney Yeo Ranges when a Mulga stump hidden in spinifex torn the side out of one tyre - that was my fault and not the tyres.
They are a great tyre and would have no hesitations on putting them on again.
Cheers
Stephen
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Reply By: Mark C - Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 20:37
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 20:37
Hi Tooley,
I put BFG ATs on my 150 from new, towed tandem 2.5t van from Melb to
Kimberley, GRR. Have done 55K and are wearing
well, not as good in the mud as Cooper STs .In MHO a better tyre on and off road than bridgestone. What ever you get make sure they are LT construction!
Happy motoring.
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Reply By: sassenach.girl - Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 08:36
Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 08:36
This is likely a naive question :) , but having a 2 month old Prado 150, am interested to understand why the need to change the tyres?
Sass.
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 14:23
Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 14:23
Hi Sass
This is not a naive question at all and from the sound of things you are new to four wheel driving. You will find that most new four wheel drives, from all stables including Toyota, Nissan, Mazda etc will fit a Highway type tyre on their vehicle as standard. If you are only ever going to be using your new Prado on the bitumen, these tyres will be fine.
If however you intend to use your vehicle for what it is made for, the standard tyres will be out of their limits and can cause all sorts of problems and to be fair for the standard tyre, they are not made for true four wheel driving.
Others can give a greater explanation, but if you are off next week for a trip up the
Birdsville Track and beyond, I would be looking for a good quality LT construction tyre that is made for all those rocks and what ever else that comes in its path.
Cheers
Stephen
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Follow Up By: sassenach.girl - Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 14:38
Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 14:38
Thanks for the explanation Stephen. We will be taking our Prado around Australia next year towing a 17ft dirt-road pop-top, including some dirt roads leading into National Parks, Arkaroola (SA) and the top eastern end of the
Gibb River around
El Questro and
Home Valley. Would we need to change the tyres before we leave to ones that are both highway and dirt then?
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 14:56
Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 14:56
Hi Sass
This is the question that only you can answer. If I was in your shoes to speak, yes I would change the tyres purely for the peace of mind knowing that if you happen to come across some very rocky section, from which you have outlined you will encounter, you know that a LT constructed tyre will not damage as easy as the standard tyres on your Prado.
I know from personal experience that most areas in the Flinders can be very hard on tyre if you have the wrong type of tyre on your vehicle. If you check my profile, you will see that I also have a Prado and like to head away from the normal tracks and use the Bridgestone 694 LT, see my previous reply above. Below are a couple of examples of where I would never even think of taking a standard tyre.
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Cheers
Stephen
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Reply By: TOOLEY - Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 16:00
Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011 at 16:00
Thanks to everyone for the advice, I think we will be putting the Bridgestone 694 LT on the Prado !
Cheers Tooley
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