Thread: NEED NEW ALL TERRAIN TYRES

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Steve and Tracey run this NZ business, and have suppliers nationwide. They offer free postage for a full set of tyres, and arrange fitting at your local for ~$20 a corner. Got two new lots of tyres last month, they arrived and were fitted within 3 days of ordering them. The local Beaurepaires place (I priced some up through them for comparison---they were about $50 a tyre more expensive) had to order my size in anyway so was looking at a 2-3 day turnaround that way too!

I've bought about 6-7 sets of tyres thru Steve and Tracey and can't recommend them enough. Steve knows his tyres and will recommend what he thinks is best for your application.

At the moment I am running 33 inch Hercules DT's (mentioned by Cambo) on my Landcruiser, by Steve's recommendation. Hercules are made by Coopers, and offer similar design to Coopers more expensive tyres.

I was running MT's, but Steve reckoned for my use the DT's would last longer, and in the real dodgy/slippery stuff I normally throw on chains anyway. So far his recommendations have proven correct, the DT's are a very chunky all terrain tyre, are awesome on road and very reassuring off road. The pair I replaced last month due to blowing them out on a set of spiked harrows, were only a 3rd worn and had done nearly 30,000kms.

In my experience, if you are doing big kms on rough roads, and a lot of off road work you get very little benefit buying top shelf 4x4 tyres. Once they're 50% worn, they're stuffed. At ~40% worn I flick them on and replace them with new ones. I usually aim my replacements to be fitted coming into winter, that way I get full benefit of their grip. Stuff a couple of high end tyres and there's a thousand bucks down the gurgler.

50,000kms is the most I've got out of a set of tyres, with them still being useful, and they were Hercules MT's. I sold them for $120 each and that subsidised my new set.