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Swoomper SSr's
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 10:23 pm
by Guy
Has anyone on here used these tyres before ?? if so what were they like, I am not after a set .. I am just curious as I have heard very little about them .. for a while they were around a bit in the US rock crawling guys, then the MTR's etc came along and they dissapeared ..
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:33 pm
by bazooked
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:49 am
by Guy
That would explian why I havent seen much of them then
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:07 am
by Gonzo
arnt the SSR's made for hummers and big yank trucks that weigh like 5 tons ?
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:37 am
by Guy
The Great Gonzo wrote:arnt the SSR's made for hummers and big yank trucks that weigh like 5 tons ?
Not as far as I know .. They are a radial swomper with siped lugs etc ..
http://www.intercotire.com/html/ssr_series.htm
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:12 pm
by turps
love_mud wrote:The Great Gonzo wrote:arnt the SSR's made for hummers and big yank trucks that weigh like 5 tons ?
Not as far as I know .. They are a radial swomper with siped lugs etc ..
http://www.intercotire.com/html/ssr_series.htm
Guts might know someone who ran them on a Hilux. As think sombody from the Gutsquishers was running them on a twin x-fer cased hilux a couple of years back.
I just thought they where the Swamper HT's
Re: Swoomper SSr's
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:46 pm
by Surfection
love_mud wrote:Has anyone on here used these tyres before ?? if so what were they like, I am not after a set .. I am just curious as I have heard very little about them .. for a while they were around a bit in the US rock crawling guys, then the MTR's etc came along and they dissapeared ..
The first round of mods on my old surf was a 2 inch suspension lift, bar work and a set of these puppys in 31" size. They were awesome, behaved very well onroad, they were reasonably loud but you gotta expect that. I haven't driven with bias swoooompers so can't compare them, but i was happy with these. I'd say they were markedly weaker than tsl's or sx's as i lent them to danstoyowagon for a club competition he was in, and one of them developed a massive egg on the sidewall, seemed they didn't like the weight of the 60 on them at low pressures. I think in the same situation a bias tyre would have been fine.
In closing your honour, i think they'd be fine on a lighter vehicle doing some road km's, but definatly wouldn't buy them again when for about the same you could have nice strong bias reliability.
