What tyres !!!!

With 1000s of tyres and options on the market, whats the best?

Landy: 130hcpu
I do a lot of towing with the landy on and off road and a lot of winter driving.

So what's the best to go for that can take heavy trailers, work off road and in the snow, and not cause the mpg to be terrible with bad road noise ?

JT-130-hcpu said:

With 1000s of tyres and options on the market, whats the best?

Landy: 130hcpu
I do a lot of towing with the landy on and off road and a lot of winter driving.

So what's the best to go for that can take heavy trailers, work off road and in the snow, and not cause the mpg to be terrible with bad road noise ?

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I likes the black, round, rubber ones.

Shouldn't you first ask "whats the biggest tyre I can fit" question?

If you manage to find this magical tyre that will give you your wish list then please post up as I am yet to find a tyre that can do all 3.

Seriously, what's your budget? How much on/off road driving do you do? When driving off road, what ground types are you driving typically, sand, clay, boggy peat lands? When you say snow, what do you mean by "snow"? The slushy garbage we get here in the UK isn't really worthy of being called such a thing, I see you're a Yorky, it's still quite civilised up there so snow is the least of my worries in this country.

JT-130-hcpu said:

With 1000s of tyres and options on the market, whats the best?

Landy: 130hcpu
I do a lot of towing with the landy on and off road and a lot of winter driving.

So what's the best to go for that can take heavy trailers, work off road and in the snow, and not cause the mpg to be terrible with bad road noise ?

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There really is no best. And will only be opinions.

If you don’t mind the price the BFG KO2 is probably a pretty good bet.

130 comes with continental cross contact. Not a bad tyre at all.

dieseldog69 said:

I likes the black, round, rubber ones.

Shouldn't you first ask "whats the biggest tyre I can fit" question?

If you manage to find this magical tyre that will give you your wish list then please post up as I am yet to find a tyre that can do all 3.

Seriously, what's your budget? How much on/off road driving do you do? When driving off road, what ground types are you driving typically, sand, clay, boggy peat lands? When you say snow, what do you mean by "snow"? The slushy garbage we get here in the UK isn't really worthy of being called such a thing, I see you're a Yorky, it's still quite civilised up there so snow is the least of my worries in this country.

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I geus mostly on road towing with grassy/ gentle offroad pulling ifor William's trailer. I avoid serious rocks and boggy ground, it's mainly just to access areas for work that my van won't get to.

With snow I ski in the lakes when theres snow so at times higher up it can be good dusting and where I am it's very rural and holds compacted ice/slush well as they dont grit and every man and his 4x4 gets on it

If tyres last a lot of miles I'm happy to pay for them

JT-130-hcpu said:

I geus mostly on road towing with grassy/ gentle offroad pulling ifor William's trailer. I avoid serious rocks and boggy ground, it's mainly just to access areas for work that my van won't get to.

With snow I ski in the lakes when theres snow so at times higher up it can be good dusting and where I am it's very rural and holds compacted ice/slush well as they dont grit and every man and his 4x4 gets on it

If tyres last a lot of miles I'm happy to pay for them

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BFG AT will be dynamite for you then, good AT tyre with seriously good off road ability and not too aggressive as to churn up grass with general driving but aggressive enough to get you through all but the sloppiest of mud, they wear fantastically and typically can see 50~70,000 miles out of a set that are rotated properly and tracking kept in check, they are quite good in snow and will be far better than an aggressive MT tyre.

Tyre pressures when driving on snow need to be adjusted just as they would for sand driving, most people drive all year on the same pressures and never alter at all.

I would say that if you're ever having to drive over grass regularly, then don't go for the bfg all terrain, it's absolutely hopeless at this! Great for everything else though (I run grabbers at2's atm), so you'll have to decide if the amount of tarmac use out does the offroad use. If you have a van for the easy to get to places, but need good traction off road, especially with a trailer, I would recommend a modern mud tyre. Not to bad on wet tarmac but will walk all over anything else in the rough stuff, I've run the old bfg mud, and the stt Pro, they just don't stop on wet grass where as the boss with the same load in his 110 would grind to a halt almost immediately on the bfgs. (although they were wider at 265/75 which wouldn't help)

I should say the reason I swapped to all terrains was because of job change so no longer required that off road performance. The all terrains are ace on the local Welsh lanes here in mid Wales and they are 235/85r16. Width of a tyre is very important, usually field work and old tracks your better off with a narrower tyre. In my humble opinion a michelin xzl in a 7.50/16 is very hard to beat as an all round dedicated work tyre. And I have a spare set on some separate rims for tougher lanes etc

We all have differing opinions on this topic of course...