D693 OEM tyres to the cape.

[smyz250]

Hi all,

Planning a trip to the cape mid june/july, have 2 questions regarding wheels and tyres:

1. Has anyone taken the OEM D693 tyres to the cape and were they ok? They seem to be a less aggressive AT tread, almost like a HT. Concerned they may lose traction too easily in creek crossings / wet ascents.

2. If changing them, am i better just changing for a more aggressive tyre on the 17" alloy or go for a 16" steel rim as well. Might have a reasonable deal on some 16x8 zero offset dynamic steel rims with MT tyres. Just not sure whether I will need them or not...

Any help appreciated.

Vehicle is a 2016 Y61 legend.

Cheers,
Shane

[GQtdauto]

See you up there then and I'll pull you out of the bog with my 33" muddies .

[smyz250]

See you up there then and I'll pull you out of the bog with my 33" muddies .

Sweet, that'll save me some money lol

First time up there for us - and looking forward to it!

[GQtdauto]

I think we have three from the forum heading up to the cape at roughly the same time .

[Avo]

I think we have three from the forum heading up to the cape at roughly the same time .

should have a race

[GQtdauto]

Got four months so yeah it'll be a slow race though .

[TPC]

Got four months so yeah it'll be a slow race though .

You got 4 months you lucky bastard, I only have 2 months.

[Avo]

Got four months so yeah it'll be a slow race though .

going up in a holden?

[TPC]

I don't know what the 693 is like, I have 697's on my work car and have found them quite good.
I have BFG AT's on the Patrol and hoping they will be fine for the cape.

Probably need advice from some members that have already done the trip.

jack what do you think? What tyres did you have when you went up there?

[GQtdauto]

going up in a holden?

Four months to do the cape and then pop over to WA and annoy the shit out of you Avo .
Missus gets her long service leave and I have been retired from the workforce through injury and no Holden here just a GQ and GU , if you see this setup while up there give us yell .74623

[Avo]

oh fuck really.....well done.....tell me when ya around the corner.....I mow a bit of grass way up the back corner for ya

[TPC]

Bloody long way from the cape to Avo's place.

[Avo]

Bloody long way from the cape to Avo's place.

not if you take the short cut

[jack]

I don't know what the 693 is like, I have 697's on my work car and have found them quite good.
I have BFG AT's on the Patrol and hoping they will be fine for the cape.

Probably need advice from some members that have already done the trip.

jack what do you think? What tyres did you have when you went up there?

Ah just saw this thread, yeap I had the Bridgestone Dueler D693 tyres on both the Patrol and the caravan on our trip. They never missed a beat, dropped then down to 26psi as soon as we left the bitumen and hit the Bloomfield track.
Just want to make it clear that we didn’t do the complete OTT, the van was to wide unfortunately. But we did plenty of Uturns (I think I hold the record for this with a caravan) and chicken tracks on it. Lots of water crossings and a heap of beach driving up Vrillya Point, we just dropped the pressure in the sand.
Conditions change every year but if they are in good condition you shouldn’t have any issues. Just drive to conditions and don’t rush.
Enjoy the trip, I’d love to do it again.

[smyz250]

Thanks for the info guys, I've got a good compressor and the tyres only have 14k on them. Sounds like they'll be OK, we don't intend doing the hard sections on any track.

Lucky buggars with your extra time, we've got 4 weeks heading out of Brisbane.

Cheers,
Shane

[GQtdauto]

First time past Cooktown and want to see every bit of the cape that we can then if we have time cut across to the Kimberly the back way .