Thread: All terrain tyres

Originally Posted by southernman

Thanks, that's liveable, 7mm WSM's reply had me concerned, the price you pay, for mags and bigger rim's is painful at times.

I think the massive difference in price for the Goodrich we see above ties in with what I was saying earlier about needing to be a bit of a hard nose bastard when shopping around.

We used a Cross Country rental Hilux for 6 months last year, it came with rubbish Bridgestone ATs and we needed a premium new MTs to get into the project areas, so we did a deal with Cross Country that we’d buy the tyres through their supplier and pay a millimetres of tread based price at the end of lease.

Well we were quoted insane numbers by the fleet supplier, eye wateringly expensive and I just said ‘no’, don’t know whether he thought I was a fool or what anyway we bought the exact same tyre from a local supplier at 72% of first quote (I just checked the file from that job.... that’s a saving of almost a grand on the set).

There’s also another issue in play, and that is IMO a lot of guys are running rims and tyre combos that are unnecessarily large, and commensurately more expensive. There aren’t that many applications where you need very tall tyres, which also come with the need to regear diffs if you want to get the best out of your truck.

There’s no doubt @madmaori / brad is very competitive and we should support that wherever possible. Talking of which Brad I’ve got some more ideas re my Surf tyres I’ll be in touch about at some point.