Which Tyre? Question from Complete Novice

[Grandeman Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Grandeman]

I liked everything about the D694's except the noise - almost as noisy as muddies, in my view.

That was the dealbreaker for me - I would expect a more aggressive tyre for the noise.

[Hutch Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hutch]

I liked everything about the D694's except the noise - almost as noisy as muddies, in my view.

That was the dealbreaker for me - I would expect a more aggressive tyre for the noise.

GM, i did find on the Jeep if you didn't rotate regularly and corner to corner they will get noisey near the end of their life, how many K's have you done.

[Grandeman Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Grandeman]

I did slightly less than Matt on mine.

[Hutch Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hutch]

between 35 k and 45k when i off loaded them they did start to get a bit noisey but i wasn't good on the rotataion back then.

[Dobbo Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dobbo]

So what would you expect to get out of a set of D694's with normal use and rotating every 10000kms?
I have made up my mind to put a set on shortly and was thinking that 45-50k would be the norm?

Dobbo

[gavdan1968 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close gavdan1968]

I got 80,000 km out of a set of coopers at's (replaced by atr's in their lineup) on a GQ patrol, hard to tell if they were too noisy as the nvh on the patrol wasn't that good, they didn't seem noisy above all the wind noise from the patrol. Great tyre & went a hell of a lot of places I thought I would get stuck, rear airlocker didn't hurt though.

[Hutch Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hutch]

So what would you expect to get out of a set of D694's with normal use and rotating every 10000kms?
I have made up my mind to put a set on shortly and was thinking that 45-50k would be the norm?

Dobbo

So far on the prado i reckon i am only half worn at 30k thinking 55-60k

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Bloody hell, I hope they do better than that. My Grandtreks have done 70,000 and still have 40% left (though I'd acknowledge this is an exception to the norm).

[Hutch Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Hutch]

Bloody hell, I hope they do better than that. My Grandtreks have done 70,000 and still have 40% left (though I'd acknowledge this is an exception to the norm).

I only run mine on 36 psi though for comfort.

[PRADOKING Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close PRADOKING]

Damn.
Only got 43,000 out of mine.
You guys must be driving on cotton wool . :cry:

[Dobbo Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dobbo]

I'm with you PK, I struggled to get 45K out of both sets. Must be something abrasive in Sydney road bitumen :P

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

I'd stay away from the Bridgestones - they are clearly NOT puncture resistant :wink:

[mkh Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mkh]

Wonder who drew the short straw to get out and change it?

[rhs58 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close rhs58]

"Wonder who drew the short straw to get out and change it?"

....probably the guy who was already out there taking the pictures!!

[LostDingo2 Find all posts View Profile Close LostDingo2]

That is hilarious :!: What a set of pics :!:

I love the big kitty gnawing on the tire