Tyres 4x4 owners.

[Hutch]

My Range Rover classic LSE is coming due for a set of tyres, so I dug out the invoice for the last set. Very pleasantly surprised to find that they are coming up to five years old and have done 46,000 miles. They are Matador budgets, and cost £77.50 each.
My neighbour has a 4x4, not sure what make, Rexton I think, and will only fit high-end priced tyres. He has changed his twice in that time, and paid twice the price that I did.
Guess which tyres I'm putting on my car next month?

Low wear tyres are usually also low grip tyres.

With you there Doger. just reshod my SF after 42k miles on Hankook ventus prime 2, great tyre until they got down to 4 mils. Now on Nokien Weatherproofs, they feel great in the wet and the dry , see what life I get out of them.

 

[Dodger524]

My Range Rover classic LSE is coming due for a set of tyres, so I dug out the invoice for the last set. Very pleasantly surprised to find that they are coming up to five years old and have done 46,000 miles. They are Matador budgets, and cost £77.50 each.
My neighbour has a 4x4, not sure what make, Rexton I think, and will only fit high-end priced tyres. He has changed his twice in that time, and paid twice the price that I did.
Guess which tyres I'm putting on my car next month?

Low wear tyres are usually also low grip tyres.

With you there Doger. just reshod my SF after 42k miles on Hankook ventus prime 2, great tyre until they got down to 4 mils. Now on Nokien Weatherproofs, they feel great in the wet and the dry , see what life I get out of them.

I've just been reading about Nokien, it seems that they may be the best tyre company that I've never heard of.

 

[Hutch]

My Range Rover classic LSE is coming due for a set of tyres, so I dug out the invoice for the last set. Very pleasantly surprised to find that they are coming up to five years old and have done 46,000 miles. They are Matador budgets, and cost £77.50 each.
My neighbour has a 4x4, not sure what make, Rexton I think, and will only fit high-end priced tyres. He has changed his twice in that time, and paid twice the price that I did.
Guess which tyres I'm putting on my car next month?

Low wear tyres are usually also low grip tyres.

With you there Doger. just reshod my SF after 42k miles on Hankook ventus prime 2, great tyre until they got down to 4 mils. Now on Nokien Weatherproofs, they feel great in the wet and the dry , see what life I get out of them.

I've just been reading about Nokien, it seems that they may be the best tyre company that I've never heard of.

Nokian

 

[emmerson]

My Range Rover classic LSE is coming due for a set of tyres, so I dug out the invoice for the last set. Very pleasantly surprised to find that they are coming up to five years old and have done 46,000 miles. They are Matador budgets, and cost £77.50 each.
My neighbour has a 4x4, not sure what make, Rexton I think, and will only fit high-end priced tyres. He has changed his twice in that time, and paid twice the price that I did.
Guess which tyres I'm putting on my car next month?

Low wear tyres are usually also low grip tyres.

Dodger, that remark is absolute rubbish! I've had Range Rovers for over twenty years, all of them on budget tyres and never been stuck yet.
To each his own. If you guys have money to burn on high-price tyres, you carry on. I'll stick with cheapies, and have a few more meals out!

 

[Parksy]

Now that I've changed the old Pajero trundle truck for a Kia Sorento I have Hankooks, they were on the Kia when I bought it.
On the Pajero I tried B F Goodrich AT tyres on my earlier 2.5td, but I found them to lack grip on wet tarmac although they were good off road tyres.
When I bought the 2.8 I had Runway Enduro all terrain tyres, a budget brand offering better grip i.m.h.o. in all conditions, and they lasted for years.

 

[Hutch]

Ì drive at the speed limits in different countries, and my tyres are the interface between my car and the road .Most times I am at the higher speed limits and prefer to have better grip to the road. If I were just trunderling around with a caravan on the back of my tug I would go for Cheaper but good tyres. But I don't so for me , I will pay a higher cost for a better grip than a longer life of a tyre.
Safe touring to all.
Hutch.

 

[emmerson]

As I said, Hutch, to each his own!

 

[Dustydog]

Our first Sorento from new spent most of its life135k on BF Goodrich ATs. Never failed nor caused me concern but were noisy.
The current Sorie is on Goodyear Wranglers. OK but don't last as long or do we have the off road grip.
I guess it's all about trade offs
I am not convinced for the use the Sorie has top cost tyres are worth it.
It's hardly a racing car clinging for every inch of tarmac B)

 

[ProfJohnL]

...It's hardly a racing car clinging for every inch of tarmac B)

Its all about grip, and probably the most important job a tyre does is to allow the vehicle to brake in the shortest distance possible, and second most important is to hold on whilst cornering. Even plodding Sorries, and Reliant's are capable of reaching speeds where too sharper turn or the emergency stops may be required. I don't personally care too much about acceleration as there is so little chance these days of exploiting the face distorting acceleration that Nissan Micra's have :lol:

 

[otherclive]

Our first Sorento from new spent most of its life135k on BF Goodrich ATs. Never failed nor caused me concern but were noisy.
The current Sorie is on Goodyear Wranglers. OK but don't last as long or do we have the off road grip.
I guess it's all about trade offs
I am not convinced for the use the Sorie has top cost tyres are worth it.
It's hardly a racing car clinging for every inch of tarmac B)

But the Goodyear Wranglers aren’t budget tyres and come from a quality tyre developer and manufacturer. So whilst they may not be the most expensive that you can get they aren’t bottom dollar.

 

[Dustydog]

Our first Sorento from new spent most of its life135k on BF Goodrich ATs. Never failed nor caused me concern but were noisy.
The current Sorie is on Goodyear Wranglers. OK but don't last as long or do we have the off road grip.
I guess it's all about trade offs
I am not convinced for the use the Sorie has top cost tyres are worth it.
It's hardly a racing car clinging for every inch of tarmac B)

But the Goodyear Wranglers aren’t budget tyres and come from a quality tyre developer and manufacturer. So whilst they may not be the most expensive that you can get they aren’t bottom dollar.

That's just the point I think Clive. The Wranglers are not top drawer but still a decent make. The old mud pluggers did just that but as Parksy said weren't the best in the wet.
On the Prof's point I agree but do you really want those super sticky tyres like motor cycles have that are fantastic but don't last very many miles :woohoo:

 

[Thingy]

Just to update the original post, I finally went for the BF Goodrich AT KO2. So far, Im very impressed with them. I believe last year they changed the compound and the wet grip is so much better than the Dunlops on tarmac. Yes, they are noisier, but its a Shogun and its not exactly cathedral quiet anyway so I can live with that. I expected a drop in fuel economy but to be honest thats hardly noticeable. Driving on them, the Shogun feel massively more secure and sure footed. Following the heavy snow recently, I took the beast up into the higher parts of the Peak District to play, and she never missed a beat, never slipped or slid once and that was on virgin snow.

Time will tell whether I made the right decision, but certainly no complaints so far. Thanks for all your input and advice.

 

[otherclive]

Just to update the original post, I finally went for the BF Goodrich AT KO2. So far, Im very impressed with them. I believe last year they changed the compound and the wet grip is so much better than the Dunlops on tarmac. Yes, they are noisier, but its a Shogun and its not exactly cathedral quiet anyway so I can live with that. I expected a drop in fuel economy but to be honest thats hardly noticeable. Driving on them, the Shogun feel massively more secure and sure footed. Following the heavy snow recently, I took the beast up into the higher parts of the Peak District to play, and she never missed a beat, never slipped or slid once and that was on virgin snow.

Time will tell whether I made the right decision, but certainly no complaints so far. Thanks for all your input and advice.

Thanks for the feedback. I had a Pajero which I took out greenlaning with a group of mainly Land Rovers and all were shod with BFG tyres either AT or MT and the owners wouldn’t have any others. Mine were 33 inch MT on 15 inch wheels so driving on wet tarmac had to be a gentle process.