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Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:30 am
by SIM79
Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:57 am
by Petes
Been running mine for a while now and spent last week in coffs on a 4wd action mag trip for a forthcoming feature so used them for 3 days solid on all sorts of terrain.
Without doubt these are the best tyres I have ever used. Ever.
I was worried about the width but it doesn't matter. Normally running around 15psi on semi easy tracks and 8psi on the hard stuff. No beadlocks and no issues atall.
Amazingly good on the road aswell, although they take some turning (power wise).
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:04 pm
by Gwagensteve
Whilst I'm not running them myself, there's a couple of sierras here in Vic running 35's.
They continue to amaze me with what they can drive. They need beadlocks IMHO - we're running them at 4-5 psi, and whilst I'm not normally a fan of wide tyres, the traction they generate off the sidewalls is very impressive as they fill the ruts out and find grip off the sidewall where a narrower tyre like a Q78 is doing it hard in the bottom of the rut.
The real key is getting the air out of them. Greg hated his until he beadlocked them and got them at 5 PSI. Now he swears by them.
They are also amazingly round - they drive very nicely on the road.
Steve.
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:09 pm
by Wozza244
Hmmm, how much are they? Say 33"
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:51 am
by Gwagensteve
35 13.5 15 is the smallest available. They are quite a tall 35 too, and very heavy.
No idea on cost in Australia - our sets have been second hand. When launched in aus, I did hear $805 each for the 35's, but I think they are significantly under that now.
Steve.
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:28 am
by Wozza244
Cheers Steve, they look great and seem to outperform alot of other rated tyres but looks like i will be buying the KM2's
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 4:38 pm
by SIM79
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:16 pm
by greg
I run a set of 35x13.5x15 on my swb sierra.
Onroad - they are fantastic. Mine are unbalanced on mechanical beadlocks and run very true. They are fairly quiet unless the ground is wet - then they howl quite loudly. Flatspotting overnight is minimal - and they take very little time to 'correct' themselves once you start driving on them.
Offroad - i'm driving victorian tracks (but tend to avoid mud/bogholes) - so it's mainly slipperly hill climbs in winter, and scrambling in and out of ruts and rocky outcrops in summer. When i first got the tyres i ran them without beadlocks at 10psi and hated them. Now that they are on beadlocks, i'm running around 4psi and they are spectacular.
They are much better at self-cleaning than a swamper (which would be my other choice of tyre), but they do lack the shoulder lugs of the TSL pattern - so they are not able to climb out of ruts to the same degree once the ground is slippery.
Perhaps as a complaint - they are a big tyre on a small rim - so they take a lot of airing at the end of the day.
edit: just went back and realised my story had already been told in 3rd person - sorry for the double up.
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:24 pm
by SIM79
Found this madly grooved Krawler pic on pirate4x4.
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:54 pm
by bj on roids
SIM79 wrote:Found this madly grooved Krawler pic on pirate4x4.
Looks fairly well streeted.
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:56 pm
by brooksy
bj on roids wrote:
Looks fairly well streeted.
Like your Mumma !!!
brooksy
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:43 pm
by SIM79
[QUOTE=poolboy;12741415]Here are some pics of the new 42" KX red label krawlers mounted up on 20"trail ready beadlocks....
aka tire porn!
next to the 39"
42" on back, 39" on front
42's all the way around....
[/QUOTE]
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:40 pm
by SIM79
Has anyone recently bought 35s?
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:29 pm
by Shieldsy
Yep, eBay, 1500 for 4
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:59 pm
by raven ute
got a link to them?
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:42 am
by SIM79
Shieldsy wrote:Yep, eBay, 1500 for 4
Where they new? If so . Was it from a tyre store?
Re: Tyre Topic - BFG Krawler
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:50 am
by Shieldsy
They'd done a 100k on the road. Still had the fur on the side of em. Basically brand new. Got them from Melbourne and the bloke said they were off a sierra.