I'm told that H/T tyres are prudent if your on road/off road ratio is around 90/10 or thereabouts. I probably fit into that category, however, I have travelled all round oz from
Burketown in Qld thru Hell's
Gate to
Borroloola, and up thru Lemmin Bight to
Roper bar, into the Bungle Bungles and along the
Gibb River Rd and around Karajini NP in WA, down the
Birdsville track and around
Innamincka & Coongee Lakes, all the tracks around Arkaroola in the
Gammon Ranges, SKYTREK & around Rawnsley Station tracks in
Flinders Ranges, and various other dirt roads round SE Qld & Northern NSW, and a couple of weekends at 4wd parks.
I tow a camper trailer on most trips with half worn A/T tyres. I've now done around 130000ks in my 4wd, and all on Yokohama H/T tyres, yes, H/T tyres. In all this travelling both on & off road I have had only one
puncture, and that was on the camper with it's half worn A/T tyres. When we were travelling down the
Birdsville Highway..oops sorry, track, we were overtaken twice by two Prado's towing camper trailers. We met them at
Marree at the garage where they told us they had had seven, yes, seven, punctures between them between
Windorah &
Marree. They were using nearly new Desert Duellers. The only reason I can think of is that they had their tyre pressures hard,
mine soft, and they were travelling fast, me slow. Is there a message in all this??
I always travel fairly slowly on trips, mainly to look after my vehicle & for safety. If on a trip, what's the hurry?