HippoNZ
2nd July 2011, 10:48 AM
Hi all
When I bought my truck 6 months ago they came with 31" Firestone Destinations Muddies. I never knew anything about these so kept them on as it made sense. I know your not suppose to bag about tyres on this forum but let me just say in the 6months of owning them I have gone through 2 tyres.
So here's my view on them:
Traction:
I can't actually complain about the traction on mud these give, they are actually quite good and will bite down and pull you through until you belly up, then like any tyre your sh!t out of luck lol
They have some tread that follow down a bit onto the side wall which at times prooved effective.
On the road with cornering etc the noise is acceptable. Wet roads well you just gotta learn to take it easy.
Price:
They are $240NZD each, so value for money is OK for being a road tyre and mud and its the sort of money you get what you pay for. But the quality you'll hear about in a min.
Wear:
I would say the wear and tear of the tyre is on the poor side, you'll find after a while chunks of tread are missing, and the tread in general wears a bit too quick for my liking. I've done roughly 5k driving on these now and im almost a 3rd through them. possibly a slight exaggeration lol but not by much.
Quality:
As I said they wear fairly quickly, but my biggest issue is with the side walls. They are like edam cheese! If you yell loud enough at the tyre you could split the side wall lol I've had a stick through one sidewall and some other foreign object through another. They are not reinforced so I knew they wouldn't take much abuse but for the life of me I'm disappointed it's happened twice in 6 months. So build quality and strength of the tyre is poor.
So today I got the news the tyre couldn't be repaired, I don't want to buy another tyre because I'm buying some 35" tyres in a month. Funny enough though when they priced me a new tyre they said, "We don't make them anymore" hmmmm wonder why I'm thinking.
Cheers
Brett
When I bought my truck 6 months ago they came with 31" Firestone Destinations Muddies. I never knew anything about these so kept them on as it made sense. I know your not suppose to bag about tyres on this forum but let me just say in the 6months of owning them I have gone through 2 tyres.
So here's my view on them:
Traction:
I can't actually complain about the traction on mud these give, they are actually quite good and will bite down and pull you through until you belly up, then like any tyre your sh!t out of luck lol
They have some tread that follow down a bit onto the side wall which at times prooved effective.
On the road with cornering etc the noise is acceptable. Wet roads well you just gotta learn to take it easy.
Price:
They are $240NZD each, so value for money is OK for being a road tyre and mud and its the sort of money you get what you pay for. But the quality you'll hear about in a min.
Wear:
I would say the wear and tear of the tyre is on the poor side, you'll find after a while chunks of tread are missing, and the tread in general wears a bit too quick for my liking. I've done roughly 5k driving on these now and im almost a 3rd through them. possibly a slight exaggeration lol but not by much.
Quality:
As I said they wear fairly quickly, but my biggest issue is with the side walls. They are like edam cheese! If you yell loud enough at the tyre you could split the side wall lol I've had a stick through one sidewall and some other foreign object through another. They are not reinforced so I knew they wouldn't take much abuse but for the life of me I'm disappointed it's happened twice in 6 months. So build quality and strength of the tyre is poor.
So today I got the news the tyre couldn't be repaired, I don't want to buy another tyre because I'm buying some 35" tyres in a month. Funny enough though when they priced me a new tyre they said, "We don't make them anymore" hmmmm wonder why I'm thinking.
Cheers
Brett