Thread: All terrain tyres

Originally Posted by Flyblown

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.

Didn't you know that if you run with bigger rims and tyres then the bigger ya weka is?!
Yea i believe that a lot of people put unnecessary fitments on their vehicle for the type of driving that they are doing , i can only offer them my honest advice about what they need and if they don't want to listen then that's their call.......tried to talk a mate out of putting muds on his ute a few weeks back because he doesn't need them......guess who he rang when he went through his first heavy downpour of rain on a roadtrip?!!

Originally Posted by madmaori

Didn't you know that if you run with bigger rims and tyres then the bigger ya weka is?!
Yea i believe that a lot of people put unnecessary fitments on their vehicle for the type of driving that they are doing , i can only offer them my honest advice about what they need and if they don't want to listen then that's their call.......tried to talk a mate out of putting muds on his ute a few weeks back because he doesn't need them......guess who he rang when he went through his first heavy downpour of rain on a roadtrip?!!

Chunky mud tyres on 22 inch rims is what really cracks me up!

36/12.5/16 simex centipede, best AT tyre you can buy

Originally Posted by WOPASS

36/12.5/16 simex centipede, best AT tyre you can buy

I like to be able to hear the radio, myself.

Originally Posted by Barefoot

I like to be able to hear the radio, myself.

Yup, muddies are an acquired taste and lots of guys run them unnecessarily. I hate the bloody things but having learnt the hard way I’ve had to suck it up cos without them I can’t do nowt, and I don’t want to have to tow a bike everywhere. Sometimes its literally the last 2 or 3km to get into a block, to a cabin, up a few steep gradients, and as soon as its wet its all over unless you’ve got decent MTs. With Cooper ATs I kept getting into strife even with diff locks and low pressures.

That light brown / grey shellrock mud in the Taranaki / Ruapehu area is a bitch especially when its part way to drying off after the rain, its the worst stuff I’ve ever come across, turns ATs into slicks in an instant.

Originally Posted by JoshC

Chunky mud tyres on 22 inch rims is what really cracks me up!

Outside the parlour in Parnell high street!

Originally Posted by JoshC

Chunky mud tyres on 22 inch rims is what really cracks me up!

Was at the local Isuzu dealer the other week and they had a ute they had just set up as per the customers instructions - federal mudgrips on 18" rims, winch and winchbar, side bars ,blah blah.
Ask the dealer about it and he said it's not how he would do things.
But the following day I could attest that it did indeed go offroad - I saw it go through the local Wendys drive through

This thread has been quite informative, I'll have worn out my current maxxis mudgrips by the new year then and will be shopping for all terrains and I've got a little list of tyres to look at and price now

cant hear the stereo or the tyres when the V8 symphony is playing

Originally Posted by JoshC

Chunky mud tyres on 22 inch rims is what really cracks me up!

Personally I like the ones that are on the big shiny rims, winch bar, winch, spotties all over, jacked up and ROAD TYRES. You can tell by looking at them the supermarket carpark is about the off road limit they see.