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Another tyre that a lot of people aren't aware of is the Mickey Thompson/Dick Cepek FCII. They are along similar application to the Cooper ST and are well worth considering aswell.

Hey Ryano how much are these bad boys? In 35x12.5-15.

Looking at Awill4x4's ST's the other day ~12 mths old and BIG cracks in the tread, and some look like they go deep under the tread chunks. I'd take em back for their warranty, but andrew has done the rotating himself, so warranty is excrement.

They have a good rep for chipping and shit with old pharts touring on exploroz... and thats the NEW ST-Cs

Sorry to mentionthis but the new ST-C's haven't been out for a year yet, so sorry

If you want super sidewall strength you will have to forget the common tyres and go for All Steel Radials.

See this link for some info
http://www.beadell.com.au/tyre_information.htm

Some of the types I found were
Toyo M504zp
Goodyear G101.
They are all cheese cutters

DanielS wrote:Another tyre that a lot of people aren't aware of is the Mickey Thompson/Dick Cepek FCII. They are along similar application to the Cooper ST and are well worth considering aswell.

Hey Ryano how much are these bad boys? In 35x12.5-15.

AJ in South aussie runs these.. Great for outback touring type of stuff. But up the high country they clog up REAL QUICK
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xplot wrote:Sorry to mentionthis but the new ST-C's haven't been out for a year yet, so sorry

His are not st-c's his are ST's. Logon to exploroz and have a look, many retired outback tourers there doing 10's of thousands of k's touring. there are people there using them. Some have had nightmare stories, others havent, sorta like any tire, car, filter, accessory...

bogged wrote:

DanielS wrote:Another tyre that a lot of people aren't aware of is the Mickey Thompson/Dick Cepek FCII. They are along similar application to the Cooper ST and are well worth considering aswell.

Hey Ryano how much are these bad boys? In 35x12.5-15.

AJ in South aussie runs these.. Great for outback touring type of stuff. But up the high country they clog up REAL QUICK
http://www.gqpatrol.com/pics/vicrange/8.jpg
http://www.gqpatrol.com/pics/vicrange/20.jpg

Thanks bogged, what kind of kms are they getting out of these?

These are an awesome tyre. Good on the beach, mud and rocks.

RV wrote:These are an awesome tyre. Good on the beach, mud and rocks.

I agree, i ran some for 10 months & they are great, very very heavy tire thou, a 33 silverstone is heavier then my 36 swamper

I ran Motorway monoform mudders from Melb to Qld and through Cape York. No puntures or problems...........over 10,000ks.

me and my old fart just got back from the cape and we had bfg muddies and only got 1 flat in 7 weeks, I run baja claws off road and find them great to.

Zute wrote:You dont need muddies for Cape York, its either rock or sand. I have BFG ATs and only got one flat. 1/2 K from the tar mack near Lorra.
But your right RoldIT, the BFGs could use an up date.

you obviously never been up there while its been rainning

Simex JT2. It laughs in the face of punctures!

Hoonz wrote:

Zute wrote:You dont need muddies for Cape York, its either rock or sand. I have BFG ATs and only got one flat. 1/2 K from the tar mack near Lorra.
But your right RoldIT, the BFGs could use an up date.

you obviously never been up there while its been rainning

nice spray!

Michelin XZL if you can.

RV wrote:These are an awesome tyre. Good on the beach, mud and rocks.

We went up the high country with a bloke that had those mt117's and he had FIVE punctures in 2 days. No one else had a flat.

Zute wrote:You dont need muddies for Cape York, its either rock or sand.

Huh, except for the muddy parts right ?

Ryano wrote:Another tyre that a lot of people aren't aware of is the Mickey Thompson/Dick Cepek FCII. They are along similar application to the Cooper ST and are well worth considering aswell.

These are the toughest of the tough Radial Tyres.

A mate of mine decided to try these after running BFG A/T's for years and absolutely hated them - he'd never had so many punctures through the tread area and ended up chucking them.

I'd have to say that a lot of his problem would have to be overinflation....
August last year I went on a trip following the QLD/NT border up to the gulf. Majority of this was done across country following GPS and no tracks. Out of 13 or 14 vehicles we ended up with sweet buggar all punctures. All of these were on Mickey Thompson.
The Camera car running the FCII (which also had a madman behind the wheel with a heavy right foot) would lap out and overtake the convoy through anything... long grass, plenty of rock and spinifex. No punctures. it surprises me that your mate had problems with these tyres and I would be interested to hear a bit more background info... get him to give me a call on 3892 2766 or email me at ryano@fourbys.com.au.

Cheers,
Ryano

DanielS wrote:Another tyre that a lot of people aren't aware of is the Mickey Thompson/Dick Cepek FCII. They are along similar application to the Cooper ST and are well worth considering aswell.

Hey Ryano how much are these bad boys? In 35x12.5-15.

Have got Cepek FCII, they are a step up from a All terrain but not quite a Muddie.
Done 8000 on them so far, just knocked the casting pimples off them finally, given them a fair trialing on rock faces, shale etc, stony slippery creek beds, and sand dunes (actually forgot to put in 4x4 and got up high dune that others got stuck on though I'm not trying it again in case), having good traction with them, no knicks no flats so far, yet to try them in mud, though in a few water crossings they haven't slipped yet, am informed they shed the mud well by the dealer that sold them to me, he could run claws or whatever he wanted, yet he has chosen these for his 100 series himself, if the dealer goes for it then I would take it as a good sign,