Recommendations for Road Tyre / Supplier / Fitter (Oxon)

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Almonds

Almonds

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Time has come to renew the slightly perished tyres on the 110. As it's commuting work-horse I have to find decent ATs rather than MTs (unfortunately Simex Extreme Tracker triple blocks are not an option ;)).

1. Any recommendations for a decent 265/75/R16 AT for road use? Decent side walls for corners and reasonable tread for low road noise etc.

2. Any recommendations for a decent supplier and fitter for General Grabber ATs or something like Hankook Dynapro ATMs in Oxford/Bicester/Bucks area?

Thanks in advance

Alm.
 
Almonds said:
Time has come to renew the slightly perished tyres on the 110. As it's commuting work-horse I have to find decent ATs rather than MTs (unfortunately Simex Extreme Tracker triple blocks are not an option ;)).

1. Any recommendations for a decent 265/75/R16 AT for road use? Decent side walls for corners and reasonable tread for low road noise etc.

2. Any recommendations for a decent supplier and fitter for General Grabber ATs or something like Hankook Dynapro ATMs in Oxford/Bicester/Bucks area?

Thanks in advance

Alm.
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I have recently changed from Trac Edge AT to General Grabber AT2's
Great tires. Lower road noise, noticeably better in the wet. Earlier this year we had a convoy of five vehicles three had At2's The AT2's took the punishment across the Sahara very well, not noticably damage done to them. One guy had a set of new BF Gooridge. They were shredded. I suggested he took them back and complain.
 
Cheers for replies.

Was running on a combination of assorted 235/85/R16 ATs. I've ended up going for 265/75/R16 Insa Turbo Rangers (remoulds) - tread is a BFG AT rip-off, I've run with genuine BFG AT and MTs before so am aware how they handle on/off-road.

Road noise is a little higher and there's a slight rub on the radius arms at full lock, but no biggy in comparison to Swamper Boggers on the V8 Tomcat.

Alm.
 
Very poor choice on two fronts a 265/75r16 is smaller diameter so will have to rev more to go same distance , the second is choosing a remould , which wont do anywhere near the distance a new tyre will , so on a commuting vehicle not good. You may have your reasons , and in the end its your vehicle and budget . JMHO
 
Diam. is smaller by 2mm, and by my calcs, that's a drop in <0.2mph... (235/85 = 805.9mm diam. 265/75 = 803.9mm diam.). When you consider the tolerances of the moulds being used to make the tyres or variability in tyre pressure, humidity, altitude, air pressure this doesn't make any difference... I'd agree that a wider/heavier tyre will have higher inertia so there's an obvious power drain there, but I would still say this is a tiny drain in comparison to driving a breeze block at 70mph.

I think I know where you're going about running remoulds on steered wheels, but it's worth noting that the remould is fully vulcanised in the re-manufacturing process, i.e. chemical reaction between new and old rubber resulting in a tyre which is as homogenous as a new tyre. I believe this differs for re-treaded or re-capped tyres which are more susceptible to delamination - I take the point that the side walls and reinforcements have already lived one life cycle, and there can be effects of cyclic fatigue.

Any chance you could quantify the difference in distance between a typical remould and a new tyre? Would be interesting to see what the difference in £/mile would be.

Alm.
 
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