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Samuel wrote:Crossply tyres are perfectly legal, provided you have them on all 4 corners of a 4x4, ie. dont mix and match, and besides that swampers would be illegal on most cars anyway because of their size!
An insurance company has to pay you unless its proven that you had exeeded the tires speed rating, and in most cases means that you were doing over the state limit anyway, so you have little chance of getting paid in the end.
At one stage I had 4 SAT 12 ply bar treads and 4 Roadgripper radials and had to use one of the other set as a spare, the old rock suspension Landy handled different but ok with 4 of either and 3 of either, but 2 front / 2 back made it an absolute deadly pig on the road, the tail & nose would corner at different rates, never tried 2 one side / 2 other.
Pat,
Brisbane, Australia,
JK 4door Rubicon, currently 4 Sale :(
It's a Jeep thing, I don't understand........
BFG MT (street tyres) on every rig in the driveway, two sidewall gashes (both repaired, now spares or on the trailer), but have mates that have holed/gashed heaps of MTRs and BFGs. They are radials - end of story - and they suck at trying to compare to bias plies. Got simex bias for the play stuff.
Samuel wrote:An insurance company has to pay you unless its proven that you had exeeded the tires speed rating, and in most cases means that you were doing over the state limit anyway, so you have little chance of getting paid in the end.
that is unless your tyres are to big for your car or not speed rated , all they have to do is deem your car unroadworthy and they dont have to pay, if your tyres exceed the legal size for your rig say bye bye insurance
Some vehicles may also be illegal if fitted with bias ply tyres - not originally designed for bias tyres or offered as an option from the original vehicle manufacturer, ie hilux with split rims versus an SR5, or a standard DX van 80/100 versus GXL or VX.
there was an F150 in sunnybank that had like 45's engineer approved about 3 years ago, and queensland transport eventually found a way to deem the vehicle unsafe even with an engineers certificate.
I JUST BOUGHT A SET OF 31 X 10.5 R15 MOTORWAY REMOULDS IN THE MUD PATTERN. THEY GRIP REALLY WELL AND ARE RELATIVLY QUIET ON ROAD. AT $105 EACH WHO CARES IF YOU STAKE THE SIDEWALL.
I have got the same tyres MOTOWAY, i have found them to be pretty awsome so far, no punctures in real sharp rocks at low psi. They self clean well and the guy assured me they wouldn't peel. Great price too. Im at uni and cant afford BFG's although i would prefer them, but the motoways are a good compromise for the price.
My mind is like a steel trap....quite dangerous because i forget where i left it.
Im at uni and cant afford BFG's although i would prefer them, but the motoways are a good compromise for the price.
