Cooper ATR "V" BF Goodridge AT

[BOOSTMEISTER]

So who dares respond.....These are the two tyres I am contemplating for my GV. I want a tyre that will be good in sand, some mud but a whole lot of bitument. Both are very good tyres but I need options other than that of a salesman.

I am looking at 225/70/16.

What are your opinions? Are there others that I should consider? want to keep it at or below $1000 for 4 including fitting.

Thanks guys

[SiKiD_01]

i've only ever had anything to do with goodyear MT/Rs, and they are a great AT tyre. great on rocks, sand (when aired down), gravel/dirt roads, a little mud, and very tough.

on road, i didnt really notice them except for a bit more road noise. they handle wet roads pretty good too. good road Ks too. i had some 235's that did over 75,000K before 2 went bald. the other 2 are still legal, just.

coopers? up here, the whole range is a bit too pricey to look at when compared to others. i have no experience with these.

BFG AT, pretty good from what i have seen and heard of them. havent had much to do with them myself, but a couple of my mates have them on cruisers, and they do pretty good for the light-medium duty stuff. good road Ks, so they tell me, so on a GV, should be even better.

[munga]

looking at my mates 2000 hilux, id say bfg's are not much chop off road.
but if you want to get a brazilian km out of a set of tyres, maybe the bfg's are the ticket.

i think you would probably (like most of us) want different tyres before you wear them out anyway, so maybe look at getting something a bit more agressive from the start. you have a reasonably light vehicle (its no gu patrol) so maybe the wear:traction trade-off isnt as significant as for others. the bfg is probably going to last a lot longer than you might want it to

i have hankook rt01 muds (dunno if they come in a 16) and for the money (160ea fitted) theyre pretty good for me. doesnt mean theyre good for you. the kooks are wearing well on the sierra, theyre grippy, quiet enough (the diff whine still wins the in-car noise comp), no worse in the wet than the dry (its a softly sprung zook) blah blah blah..

maybe im not the right person to be giving a comparative opinion on all-terrain tyres for a gv

maybe look at some yoko geolandars?

you could ask the zook guys on http://www.nbs4x4club.com as well.



at's are for soccer mums.

[alien]

ive got a set of Cooper STT Armor-Tek 31x10.5's going on my zuk. They measure 30.6" including tread, which is 15.5mm deep. cost was $270ea fitted and balanced.

Pattern is aggressive but not too far apart - its basically a mud tyre come AT.... i havent used them yet though so i cant comment on performance of these, but the Cooper HT's i had before them in 215/75r15 lasted me 3 years - and im not easy on my tyres.

Personally, cos i love cooper tyres - i say go the coopers. ST / STT would be my suggestion.

heres STT:


heres ST:


and this is the AT-R:


Personally, i reckon the ATR should be the HT, the ST should be ATR, and STT should be the ST...

[JrZook]

I ran the bfg at on me serria, got 75000k's on em and they were still legal, bout 5mm tread left. Found these tyres worked quite well offroad if you dropped the pressures. Have bfg mudds now, and man there a setup from the at's. Weird tho, they grip a heap better on road, wet or dry and offroad on basically anything. So far they aint wearing much at all and they're pretty quite onroad too. Have you considered the bfg mud?

[munga]

I am looking at 225/70/16.

What are your opinions? Are there others that I should consider? want to keep it at or below $1000 for 4 including fitting.

Thanks guys

[BOOSTMEISTER]

Have you considered the bfg mud?

Yes, they were my first thought, I have had them on a previous fouby and found them to be excellent....most sales people I have spoken to though have talked me out of muddys due to me doing more sand than mud, what do you recon about that....any main dissadvantages to using muds on sand?

[BOOSTMEISTER]

Alien....they are nice tyres, might investigate them a little further, thanks guys