Pirelli Scropians Vs. Mickey Thompson Wildcat?

[mjc85]

I can't find the Wildcat's on the MT site but they are an A/T tyre.

The Pirellis are $225 a tyre for 265/70R16 and $245 for a MT Wildcat in same size.

Can't decide what to get?

Mitch

[griff]

The Pirellis I had on the Hilux wore-out fairly quick (around 30k I think? - or less..) in just normal round town and dirt road use.
Griff

[Guy]

The AT scorpians I have were not so flash wore kinda quick as well. . I much prefer the handling of the silvertsone AT's

[bogged]

have scorps on the pathfinder ex drives.. good lasting, but nothing more than a HT..

My Choice would be to go with BFG AT's if I gave a fuck. at least they are useful offroad.

[daveo]

had scorpions on my lux and they wore out in 30k as well. now have bgf at, doing well, have got about 50k on them now, prob another 10-20 in them

[MUD EMPIRE]

The Wilcat A/T in the 265 70R16 size has a mileage warranty of 60000 K's.
The extra $ spent is well worth it. The BFG A/T will do similar (or more) K's
but wont be as nice on road as the Wildcat...........



...265 70R16 Wildcat A/T...

[bogged]

...265 70R16 Wildcat A/T...

nice lookin tire, but they call that an ALL TERRAIN??? Hate to see the HT version

[Struth]

Go with BFG A/Ts is my advice, they work well in most situations, except clay. Mine have 35k on them and still look pretty damn new, only on a Runner though.

They are also not too bad on the tarmac.

The scorpians being Shite surprise me since A4WDM voted them best all rounder.

Cheers

[amtravic1]

I had Pirelis as well and was less than impressed with them.

[Goatse.AJ]

What sort of vehicle?

I'd seriously look at BFG muddies or similar if it's not a really big heavy truck. Excellent on road and excellent durability so long as you rotate them properly. They shit on H/T's and most A/T's on road and offroad.

[j-top paj]

what would you class as heavy but?
i got bf muddies on mine and they seem to be doing fine so far.
next set will be claws i think

[Goatse.AJ]

GU is heavy...

I'd be interested to hear what sort of onroad performance people get from their claws on different vehicles.

My (oldschool) BFG muddies were heaps better in the wet than my claws on the Feroza, even after they'd done >100,000km.

[j-top paj]

GU is heavy...

EXCUSE ME, 2.68t isnt heavy thank you very much

[Shadow]

GU is heavy...

I'd be interested to hear what sort of onroad performance people get from their claws on different vehicles.

My (oldschool) BFG muddies were heaps better in the wet than my claws on the Feroza, even after they'd done >100,000km.

my brother had BFG muds on his hilux and it was scary to drive in the wet.

He locked it up with a trailer hooked up (trailer had brakes aswell) and the thing just went skating into the side of a barina. Other brother was right behind him same car, HT tyres and no trailer and he pulled up fine.

Dont really know how much the trailer effected it, but when i drive his lux in the wet, roundabouts were a less than 10km affair unless you wanted to end up on the nature strip.

[Guy]

GU is heavy...

I'd be interested to hear what sort of onroad performance people get from their claws on different vehicles.

My (oldschool) BFG muddies were heaps better in the wet than my claws on the Feroza, even after they'd done >100,000km.

my brother had BFG muds on his hilux and it was scary to drive in the wet.

He locked it up with a trailer hooked up (trailer had brakes aswell) and the thing just went skating into the side of a barina. Other brother was right behind him same car, HT tyres and no trailer and he pulled up fine.

Dont really know how much the trailer effected it, but when i drive his lux in the wet, roundabouts were a less than 10km affair unless you wanted to end up on the nature strip.

tight LSD or lockright in the rear ... ?
I went from BFG MT's on my GU to scorpions .. The scorps held on a bit longer, but once they were gone it was ALL GONE .. the BF's were a gradual loss of traction so it was easy to tell when to ease back (this was only once they were getting into the harder base rubber at bout the 80% worn stage) .. previously they were easily as good as the scorpions.
The 285/75 BF's lasted around 90,000Ks before hitting the tread wear indicators.

The 265/75 scorpions I had second hand so it is hard to tell how they would have lasted. But from when I had them I felt the wore quickly and were not abused on gravel roads or made tow stupid heavy loads like the BFs were .. i felt they were wearing quickly...

I swapped to silverstone AT 117's and was quite pleased .. they were very predictable .. and not to bad (for an AT ) in the bush .. the scorpions were utter rubbish in anything except dry mild rock ... The Silver stones ran rings around the scorpions in fast dirt as well ..

[Shadow]

GU is heavy...

I'd be interested to hear what sort of onroad performance people get from their claws on different vehicles.

My (oldschool) BFG muddies were heaps better in the wet than my claws on the Feroza, even after they'd done >100,000km.

my brother had BFG muds on his hilux and it was scary to drive in the wet.

He locked it up with a trailer hooked up (trailer had brakes aswell) and the thing just went skating into the side of a barina. Other brother was right behind him same car, HT tyres and no trailer and he pulled up fine.

Dont really know how much the trailer effected it, but when i drive his lux in the wet, roundabouts were a less than 10km affair unless you wanted to end up on the nature strip.

tight LSD or lockright in the rear ... ?
I went from BFG MT's on my GU to scorpions .. The scorps held on a bit longer, but once they were gone it was ALL GONE .. the BF's were a gradual loss of traction so it was easy to tell when to ease back (this was only once they were getting into the harder base rubber at bout the 80% worn stage) .. previously they were easily as good as the scorpions.
The 285/75 BF's lasted around 90,000Ks before hitting the tread wear indicators.

The 265/75 scorpions I had second hand so it is hard to tell how they would have lasted. But from when I had them I felt the wore quickly and were not abused on gravel roads or made tow stupid heavy loads like the BFs were .. i felt they were wearing quickly...

I swapped to silverstone AT 117's and was quite pleased .. they were very predictable .. and not to bad (for an AT ) in the bush .. the scorpions were utter rubbish in anything except dry mild rock ... The Silver stones ran rings around the scorpions in fast dirt as well ..

just a standard toyo LSD