My Patrol had HTs on it when I bought it. I had to put it in 4wd to go on a hill with wet grass.
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Agree 100%.
We have the 697's on over 1/2 of our fleet (Rangers, DMax, Cruisers) and they go all over WA from Wyndham to the SA Border.
85% road 15% beach and the vehicles with the Duellers perform brilliantly IMHO... comfy and quiet on the long bitumen runs, work nicely on the sand at 14 to 22 PSI depending on compaction
I used to run Duellers or Coopers on my privately owned Patrols that did maybe 50% bitumen the rest gravel, offroad or beach, never had an issue with either brand.
Duellers were better in sand and Coopers better off road... maybe did 400K or so on each brand over the years
Now I run Nittos on the Y62 and they do an excellent job on a heavier rig than the Y60/61's
So after all of that the duelers are out of stock Australia wide. I’ve heard a lot of conflicting things from coopers. Anyone know anything about the falkans? Otherwise I’ll pony up and go the BFG
This is what HT tyres and 2wd did to my backyard during the week...
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I was told by my local tyre guy that he's been seeing lots of Cooper STT Maxs ending up with lots of splits inside them, not visible from the outside. My other bloke told me that BFGs are now being made in China and that the quality has dropped off.
Who do you believe, I don't know????
Bugger. Rugged Terrains are discontinued. Probably too good.
Just fitted BFG AT KOs cant fault them
last set on my troopy returned over 110km
Ive found them to be a great all rounder providing
surprising grip off road
Personal rigs; started off a Kumho M/T fan due to cheaper price wise back in the early 90’s, soon worked out that BFG KM1’s were 25% more expensive then but lasted twice as long performing the same if not mountain slash proof shale betterer.
Took the late 90’s 80,000km warranty challenge from Cooper ST’s and was kindly refunded 5/8th credit as they did unfortunately delaminate quite scarily on my old DX ute after a mere 30,000k’s.
Straight back onto BFG KM2’s then were the new models and found performance off-road leap years ahead although wearing some guesstimated 30% faster than older harder KM1 versions.
Popped a little set of the newish KM3’s on our family wagon some 12months ago and find their performance is truly impeccable albeit feel they’ll be lucky to get 50,000kms if we go easy on their much softer gripping rock rubber.
Currently running Nitto Trail Grapplers on an old work ute faithful GQ across NSW 80% tar 10% gravel 10% sludgey jobsites.
Personally sold on these things for amazing longevity and almost as gooda performance as the best of them top dollar BFG’s etc....
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Upon reflection, these great Nitto’s look and feel exactly the same as they were when new bought upon leaving our N/E Victorian healthy farm many months ago :-(
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