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| Bows Member Since: 07 May 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 513   
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Difficult to beat the continental cross contact as an all round tyre, these have been the tyre supplied with the boost alloy from Land Rover for a few years, hence plenty of them around.
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27th Jan 2015 10:01pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17391  
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Here we go again ... !
You will NEVER get any concensus on this, and the question has been asked many, many times before. |
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27th Jan 2015 10:25pm |
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| Bows Member Since: 07 May 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 513
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maybe, but it's still a valid question.
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27th Jan 2015 11:02pm |
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| Devon-Rover Member Since: 22 Jan 2015 Location: South Devon Posts: 916 
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When a customer asks this at work I offer the following brands for consideration.
BFGoodrich All terrain General Grabber AT or AT2 Cooper Discoverer ST or MAXX Mickey Thompson BAJA ATZ All of them are reputed brands that offer good mileage versus cost and are well built and constructed. |
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27th Jan 2015 11:03pm |
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| jomara Member Since: 26 Oct 2009 Location: Lanarkshire Posts: 1790  
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On my 110SW I have BFG 265/65R18 which have been great in the 6k miles I've covered on them.
My Td5 double cab had a set of BFG AT 265/75R16 which were used on and off road and covered 55k miles and still had tread left when I changed them for a set of General Grabbers in the same size, these have only covered 10k miles, still has the manufacturing marks on the tread only problem is they seem to go out of balance very easily. 2014 110 2.2TDCi XS Station wagon 1971 Bowler Tomcat 88 4.2 V8 Auto 2022 110 D250 XS Edition - Gone 2024 110 D250 X-Dynamic HSE |
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27th Jan 2015 11:17pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17391
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BFG KM2 mud T/A, brilliant tyres under all conditions, excellent road manners, and will last 100k miles.
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27th Jan 2015 11:20pm |
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| ericvv Member Since: 02 Jun 2011 Location: Near the Jet d'Eau Posts: 5816  
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As my SVX Dual Tone summer wheels with the original GG TR were recently stolen, I am facing to buy new wheels and tires this spring/summer. Most likely will go for the gloss black Land Rover Wolfs with the new BFG AT KO2 in the standard 235/16R85 size. Understand these new tires will become available in our size as of mid April approximately, so timing would be about right too. I presume they will be at least as good and hopefully as quiet too as my GG TR, and think they will look good with the gloss black Wolf wheels on the SVX.
Everybody has been very positive about the now 15 years long existing BFG AT tire, so presume the new one will only be better still. We will see said the blind man.... 
These here: http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com/tire-select...re-details Eric You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation. http://youtu.be/yVRlSsJwD0o https://youtu.be/vmPr3oTHndg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GtzTT9Pdl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqKPz28e6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ49Jce_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvAsz_ilQYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tMHiX9lSw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwjPuHIV7I https://vimeo.com/201482507 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSixqL0iyHw |
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28th Jan 2015 7:25am |
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| bear100 Member Since: 22 Mar 2010 Location: South Wales Posts: 1917 
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Thanks chaps
I had the BFG A/T on my disco 1 and must admit they were great I did find the side wall sagged a bit though, Do you find the mud terrain have any extra road noise? 2016 Range Rover Autobiography 4.4 TDV8
2010 110 XS Utility 2.4TDCI 2010 Range Rover Sport TDV8 (gone) 2007 Discovery HSE TDV6 (gone) 1993 110 csw 200 tdi (gone) 1994 90 HT 300 tdi (gone) 1994 discovery 300tdi (gone) 90 hybrid 3.5 v8 (gone) Range rover bobtail 3.5 v8 (gone) |
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28th Jan 2015 7:08pm |
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| bear100 Member Since: 22 Mar 2010 Location: South Wales Posts: 1917
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If questions weren't repeated forums would soon cease and turn to library's
 2016 Range Rover Autobiography 4.4 TDV8
2010 110 XS Utility 2.4TDCI 2010 Range Rover Sport TDV8 (gone) 2007 Discovery HSE TDV6 (gone) 1993 110 csw 200 tdi (gone) 1994 90 HT 300 tdi (gone) 1994 discovery 300tdi (gone) 90 hybrid 3.5 v8 (gone) Range rover bobtail 3.5 v8 (gone) |
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28th Jan 2015 7:11pm |
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| JAY BOY Member Since: 04 May 2010 Location: Not here Posts: 1706
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I took MT's off mine as they were noisy
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28th Jan 2015 7:41pm |
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| bear100 Member Since: 22 Mar 2010 Location: South Wales Posts: 1917
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I thought they would
 2016 Range Rover Autobiography 4.4 TDV8
2010 110 XS Utility 2.4TDCI 2010 Range Rover Sport TDV8 (gone) 2007 Discovery HSE TDV6 (gone) 1993 110 csw 200 tdi (gone) 1994 90 HT 300 tdi (gone) 1994 discovery 300tdi (gone) 90 hybrid 3.5 v8 (gone) Range rover bobtail 3.5 v8 (gone) |
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28th Jan 2015 7:41pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20382
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+1. |
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28th Jan 2015 7:48pm |
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| Cuthbert Member Since: 26 Oct 2013 Location: Up North Posts: 1535 |
I recently put 4 new Good Year MTR's on mine and so far I'm very happy with them - especially on flooded road surfaces and slush covered roads.
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28th Jan 2015 9:04pm |
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| Gonarezhou Member Since: 08 Mar 2015 Location: White River Posts: 178  
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It all depends on what you expect a tyre to do. Off road/on road/soil traction/tar traction/rock traction/high mileage/economy etc etc etc.....so far with 30+years experience the best for me has been BFG ATs as an all round tyre. But they are weak to scary on tar traction especially when wet with little load. Long life .... not much to compete with them in our conditions in Africa - perhaps why the "Land Cruiser lot" like them so much? Economy.... You drive a Defender! if you want that buy a VW Blue Motion!
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