gavin. Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 There is a lot of information about tyres out on the interweb, but there is very little about tyre wear rates - which I think is something that would be of a great deal of importance if you are taking the time to choose what rubber to shod your wheels with! Here is what I am asking: If you can spare the time, and have the info, could you reply with the following: Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N) Your Tyre size Your Car Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) Date installed (and removed*) New tread depth* Current tread Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate) * If applicable or available Any input would be appreciated, try and keep it all reasonably accurate and perhaps we could get some interesting results! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badlands Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Well, I have got 4 of them on the road, does that help. Thats a clever thing you got going there, but I change mine every two years, so ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeSheds Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 That's a great idea - presumably you will compile and publish the results back here? When I get my new tyres - I'll join in, but since I have no idea of what mileage the current set are, or what tread depth they had at the start, I think that my info would be pretty useless TwoSheds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 That's a great idea - presumably you will compile and publish the results back here? When I get my new tyres - I'll join in, but since I have no idea of what mileage the current set are, or what tread depth they had at the start, I think that my info would be pretty useless TwoSheds I'll be getting some new tyres at the end of the year so I will doing the same. I am hoping that there are a few people, somewhere, that can help out to get it started! The idea is to get some ball park figures published which people can use as a guide. There is a duplicate thread that I started on the tyre section of another popular 4x4 forum which should expand the sampling somewhat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgnas Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N) BFG AT Your Tyre size 31*10.5*r15 Your Car Land Rover 90 Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) 1:99 Date installed (and removed*) New tread depth* 13mm Current tread 8mm Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate) 5mm/42000m = 1.2mm/10000m projected life 90000m Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N) BFG AT Your Tyre size 31*10.5*r15 Your Car Vauxhall Frontera Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) 1:99 Date installed (and removed*) New tread depth* 13mm Current tread 7mm Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate) 6mm/50000m = 1.2mm/10000m projected life 90000m Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N) Kuhmo Mud 834 Your Tyre size 235 85 r16 Your Car Land Rover 90/110 Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) 1:99 Date installed (and removed*) New tread depth* 13mm Current tread 7mm Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate) 6mm/18000m = 3.3mm/10000m projected life 33000m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 Thanks sgnas, first datas! Here, have a cigar... Is that 1 mile on road for every 99 off road for a frontera on ATs?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgnas Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 On:off = 1:99 I did more than 80000 miles in the Frontera, it did a reasonable number of play days and laning trips but I doubt the total mileage on unmetaled roads reached 1000. Clocking up large "off road" miles is tough, hours on the other hand...... I lived on the edge of Salisbury plain for 10 months. If you went out for 4 hours you would be lucky if you could claim 25 "off road" miles the "road" mileage would be similar or higher! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 On:off = 1:99I did more than 80000 miles in the Frontera, it did a reasonable number of play days and laning trips but I doubt the total mileage on unmetaled roads reached 1000. Clocking up large "off road" miles is tough, hours on the other hand...... I lived on the edge of Salisbury plain for 10 months. If you went out for 4 hours you would be lucky if you could claim 25 "off road" miles the "road" mileage would be similar or higher! Makes sense now! This is the sort of thing I am hoping on producing, except with more data, obviously! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N): BFG AT Your Tyre size: 245/70R16 Your Car: Range Rover 2.5 DT Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) 1:99 Date installed (and removed*) 10-2006 New tread depth*: 13 Current tread: 11 Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate): 15.000 m as yet, projected life 75.000m Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N): BFG MT Your Tyre size: 255/85R16 Your Car: Land Rover Defender 90 Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) 1:90 Date installed (and removed*) 05-2005/02-2007 New tread depth*: 16 Current tread: 11 Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate): sold after 20.000 m, projected life 50.000m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N): BFG ATYour Tyre size: 245/70R16 Your Car: Range Rover 2.5 DT Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) 1:99 Date installed (and removed*) 10-2006 New tread depth*: 13 Current tread: 11 Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate): 15.000 m as yet, projected life 75.000m Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N): BFG MT Your Tyre size: 255/85R16 Your Car: Land Rover Defender 90 Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) 1:90 Date installed (and removed*) 05-2005/02-2007 New tread depth*: 16 Current tread: 11 Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate): sold after 20.000 m, projected life 50.000m Added, thank you. Where are all you General AT2, Cooper STT and ST and Goodyear Wrangler MT/R users (to name a few)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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madmatt Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 BF Goodrich Mud Terrain Not a Remould! 265/75/16 Defender 130 removed feb o7 New tread depth unsure of Tread depth when removed 7mm Tyre life was 57'000 miles. Replaced with more BFG Muds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 BF Goodrich Mud Terrain Not a Remould!265/75/16 Defender 130 removed feb o7 New tread depth unsure of Tread depth when removed 7mm Tyre life was 57'000 miles. Replaced with more BFG Muds Thanking you! Please come again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Current sample size 8 with 4 tyre types. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hey guys, Can you help me? I am hopping across from one forum to another in order to do the following: There is a lot of information about tyres out on the interweb, but there is very little about tyre wear rates - which I think is something that would be of a great deal of importance if you are taking the time to choose what rubber to shod your wheels with! Here is what I am asking: If you can spare the time, and have the info, could you reply with the following: Your Tyre make & model (Remould Y/N) Your Tyre size Your Car Off road:On road ratio (i.e. 10:90, 40:60 etc...) Date installed (and removed*) New tread depth* Current tread Tyre life (actual or projected on wear rate) * If applicable or available Any input would be appreciated, try and keep it all reasonably accurate and perhaps we could get some interesting results! This is what we have so far: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Best that I don't bugger up your calculations completely by adding a figure of 24000 miles for BFG AT's in normal road use then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Best that I don't bugger up your calculations completely by adding a figure of 24000 miles for BFG AT's in normal road use then No, screw that - if you had a set of them and you managed to wear all 1/2" of tread in 24k miles then tell me about it. Can you give me more details than that please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Simple - rough gravel roads, not every country in the world drives on smooth tarmac Likewise a lot of MT's here are starting to look pretty sad after 10-12000 miles. I could tell you about somebody I know who completely wore out a set of (usually hard wearing) Michelin XPCs in 8000 miles as well, or the Goodyears I wore out on my Td4 Freelander in 6000 miles, but it wouldn't be relevant to most people on here and I don't have accurate tread before/after figures for any of those anyway. Lies damn lies and statistics By the way I will be seeking opinions from other moderators but since this has been posted on each of the subforums you may find this post is merged into a single thread in the International forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LR90 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Front or rear fitment also makes a difference. On the 90 my front Simex ETs lasted some 18000 miles while the rears, now over 22000 miles, still have most of 15mm tread left! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blippie Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 So does that mean that although it wears the fastest, BFG ATs last the longest? Or is the right hand index reversed? Cheers Blippie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 So does that mean that although it wears the fastest, BFG ATs last the longest? Or is the right hand index reversed?Cheers Blippie RH axis is how many miles (x1000) you will get with every 1mm of tread. Handy if you are buying part worn tyres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 By the way I will be seeking opinions from other moderators but since this has been posted on each of the subforums you may find this post is merged into a single thread in the International forum. Ideal, makes life a little easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Now moved to the International forum... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavin. Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Thanks BogMonster. Please feel free to remove the other threads if you think it is appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Thanks BogMonster. Please feel free to remove the other threads if you think it is appropriate. All I know is your signature is doing my head in as it is both huge and not very "Work Friendly" , ......could do to be reduced massively......... please ? Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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