Re: AT Tyre Test
Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:20
I'm slightly surprised to find this discussion here! With our vehicles and their ability, why do we play around wit A/T tyres anyway?
My M/T's serves me well in all conditions, but severely outperforms A/T where it counts and where I use the vehicle for the reason I've bought it.
I previously had Coopers (the MT version, SST or STT) and I was not impressed, none of them lasted the lifetime, all were written off way before they reached 40% thread remaining. something many other people also have a problem with, though I am not sure if this can be considered subjective in any way. Then I put on Bridgestone M/T's, in spite of reading not so positive comment on this forum. Recently though I couldn't afford anything, not even tyres for the venter trailer :)
These tyre talk and comparisons are great, but I will always end up buying the affordable option, irrespective of what has been written. That said, I may want to think twice about buying coopers again, however their price tag puts them out of my range. If they are on special and a bargain, I guess I'll buy them.
My rear set of Bridgestones were second hand and have done ±60 000km with them. The front ones are new and I have done about 45 000km with them. Much greater abuse than the Coopers have ever seen. The one I did writ off was ironically on a tarr road.
I encounter rocky trails (hennops pride, rust de winter) rocky/sandy trails (the likes of tussen-die-riviere), sandy trails (moz, kosi bay, Atlantis), muddy trails (Eastern cape drakensbergs, building sites) Snow (lesotho, Eastern Cape) and lastly tar road.
In the GQ road noise or tyre noise is not a very big concern. Fuel consumtion, well, gues that do matter but how big is the difference between MT/AT tyres really? And when you get off-road with AT's you burn away the fuel you saved anyway. Wet weather on tar I did not see any problem with the MT's apart from not Aqua planing so easy.
For me, with my application of the vehicle, I do not see any sense in A/T tyres.
Lastly, did you see at Gerotek the guy with the hilux and the A/T tyres getting trough the mud-hole without too much problems?
My M/T's serves me well in all conditions, but severely outperforms A/T where it counts and where I use the vehicle for the reason I've bought it.
I previously had Coopers (the MT version, SST or STT) and I was not impressed, none of them lasted the lifetime, all were written off way before they reached 40% thread remaining. something many other people also have a problem with, though I am not sure if this can be considered subjective in any way. Then I put on Bridgestone M/T's, in spite of reading not so positive comment on this forum. Recently though I couldn't afford anything, not even tyres for the venter trailer :)
These tyre talk and comparisons are great, but I will always end up buying the affordable option, irrespective of what has been written. That said, I may want to think twice about buying coopers again, however their price tag puts them out of my range. If they are on special and a bargain, I guess I'll buy them.
My rear set of Bridgestones were second hand and have done ±60 000km with them. The front ones are new and I have done about 45 000km with them. Much greater abuse than the Coopers have ever seen. The one I did writ off was ironically on a tarr road.
I encounter rocky trails (hennops pride, rust de winter) rocky/sandy trails (the likes of tussen-die-riviere), sandy trails (moz, kosi bay, Atlantis), muddy trails (Eastern cape drakensbergs, building sites) Snow (lesotho, Eastern Cape) and lastly tar road.
In the GQ road noise or tyre noise is not a very big concern. Fuel consumtion, well, gues that do matter but how big is the difference between MT/AT tyres really? And when you get off-road with AT's you burn away the fuel you saved anyway. Wet weather on tar I did not see any problem with the MT's apart from not Aqua planing so easy.
For me, with my application of the vehicle, I do not see any sense in A/T tyres.
Lastly, did you see at Gerotek the guy with the hilux and the A/T tyres getting trough the mud-hole without too much problems?