g'day guys keithy here thank you for joining me again so something a little bit different today
i'm going to review the tyres on this um range rover here
because it's about time for an update anyway i've had them on for over three years now
um i've done oh god i think 65 000 k's on them so far and rotated them only once
so let's go and have a look at them see how they're going so far oh if you haven't already
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i'll chuck a few things up during the week as i can but otherwise let's go and have a look
at these tyres see how they've gone after about seventy thousand odd k's sixty five thousand
so you can see i've loosely got lieutenant dan covered up over there he come for the
drive get the bonnet up on the big girl so what i normally do after a trip i'll check the oil check
the coolant make sure the belt's all good all that kind of stuff which i have just completed
and i normally walk around and have a look at everything anyway
so before i show you what's going on with these tyres i'll tell you my tyre pressures that i've
run i've changed it up a bit over the years so originally i was running about 32 pounds in the
front and 40 to 42 in the back um given that the back of this car is quite heavy i've got the gas
tank i've got the spare wheel there the fridge drawers you name it it's all up even the fuel
tank is just underneath that door there on the driver's side so there's a lot of weight up the
back i run a higher pressure for that reason in the back just to try and keep that footprint even
between the two of them but what i've found to be optimum pressure in terms of wear and everything
else is 29 psi in the front and 37 psi in the back it's about 8 psi difference and
they're sitting pretty well level in in terms of footprint if you've already seen my video up there
on tyre pressures and why they're so important you'll understand why i do that and how it
benefits the longevity of your tyres so we'll start up here with the right front these keep in
mind they've got 70 000 k's and the only tire that hasn't got those kind of k's is that left front
because it was the spare when i rotated about 10 000 k's ago so um holding air on these steel rims
no worries at all i've never popped a bead and i've let them right down to about 8 psi on sand
haven't had any problems with the them sticking to the wheels um you can see as you'd expect
when you do some hard 4wding the sidewalls get little cuts and nicks here and there
which is to be expected these have stood up reasonably well to that in terms of sidewall
um you'll notice a little bit of feathering here on these uh outer edges that's probably more to do
with my caster angle with the suspension lift that i'm running on this you can see a little tiny tip
there that's nothing got one here that's pretty reasonable little bit of um meat taken out of that
old girl and that's the same with most of these tyres they've got little bits of meat taken out
here there and everywhere all in all that's not too bad this tyre has been in this position for
the entire time has not been rotated from that spot so then we move on to the right rear okay
you can see up here i'd really like to demonstrate this down there you can see that little chip there
and there's another one in there there's another few down in here
there's another one up in there there's quite a few so you can see there's more in there
i want to show you them even down in here right at the base of the tread blocks i hope that focuses i
can't see anything because the sun's on the screen and there's another one just in here so that's a
common theme with these rear tyres only the rears have done this um i took all of these tyres into
my tire shop after about 5000 k's and showed them that so that happened after 5000k so back in 2017
um i don't know why i don't know why i did it you can see there's a little nick here taken
out there as well mind you i punish these things um now i'm very cautious with my tyre pressures
and i asked the tire shop um and i'll turn you around if i can
so i asked the tire shop what that was all about especially with low k's on them there shouldn't
be any need to to be getting cracks or anything like that and i think um at that stage i hadn't
done uh any real hard four-wheel driving with them and they said they contacted the bf goodrich rep
and sent him all the photos they actually pulled the tires off the car and took photos of them
and sent him off and they said look we're gonna monitor that if it gets any worse
we'll sort it out no worries but otherwise their explanation was that it was gravel and rocks
getting stuck in between the tread blocks and causing them to contract and reduce as the rocks
get ejected and whatnot and that just caused a tiny bit of the the cutting in there um personally
i don't think that that's why it happened it looks to me and most of them are where the tread block
meets the um carcass of the tyre it looks like they're starting to rip i'll be honest with you
but they haven't got any worse so now i've done about an extra 60 odd thousand k's on these tyres
since then and the problem hasn't got any worse so i'm still keeping my eye on it but i mean
what life do you expect out of mud terrains anyway something i think you might need to know let's go
back and have a look at the rest of them so this is the spare that came off the left front it has
about 55 000 k's on it um i'm just having a look i can't really see too much on this that you might
you see there's a couple of little tiny chips in there like that but there's nothing really
to write home about here like again it's been to cape york and done a heap of rough
tough 4wding as you'll see in that off-road video just there you can see here
there's a little chip out of that but generally very good condition so that's now my spare from
the left front and this here is your right rear left rear i apologize this one has been on here
the whole time same again it's had the same uh 65 000 k's of punishment as the rest of the tyres
so you can see the sidewall's got scratches and whatnot and that's what you expect when you
use your four-wheel drive off-road there's nothing too extreme on here that i can point
out there's a tiny little chip out of that and like i said with the right rear there are some
little chips taken out so you can see i hope you can see that just down the bottom there there's a
little chip out of that that's probably normal up there that tiny little chip but along the
base of the tread blocks you can see those little chips and cuts taken out right at the base there
that one there's a pretty decent one they've been there for 50 000 k's so
they haven't got any worse but i did notice them when the tyres were new and you can see
there's a bit of meat taken out of this tyre here as well right there a bit of wear there
all in all not too bad there's another one that's fairly decent little
chip out there hope you can see that let's move on to this left front so this is the one that
has been sitting on the back of the car for 55 000k so it's only done about 10 000 k's this one
and you can see it's still got a little knobby knobby in there it has got a few little chippy
chippies taken out of it um again it's been used quite hard there's one right there that i'll
now see when the tyres were new that only happened on the rear this tire has only
ever been on the front or on the spare as the spare sorry um so there's that right there
that's the only one that i could find just looking around i haven't actually pulled
this tire off to have a proper inspection of it so 10 000 k's we've got a tiny little
cut in the sidewall there that's probably from a lovely stick that i would have hit
and you can see it's rubbed up against the rocks when we were off-roading the other day
we've got a bit more of a chip taken out of there it's not going to affect the longevity of it
these sidewalls fantastic so that's the tread um 65 000 kilometers 70 000 kilometers i can't
remember the exact kilometers i put them on it but it's around that this one's only done ten thousand
they've had a hard life that's done really well
yep all right so that's the km3s in terms of wear um and you saw the little tiny chips
in there that was the biggest concern i've had they haven't got any worse
uh and like i said i've only rotated them once in 65 to 70 000 kilometers so that's pretty decent
i'm not really complaining about that um noise they were really really quiet when
i got them they're starting to get noisy now but they're still not as noisy as the
old bfgoodrich km2s that i had previously on my old blue p38 which you can see up there
they were still a really good tire and they weren't extremely noisy but now these things
are starting to wear they are starting to get a little bit noisier as far as ride goes they're
fantastic the sidewalls on them are so strong that i find i'm letting them down to about 15 psi
for normal off-road type you know low-range slow stuff and then for sand and whatnot
i'm going down to about 8 psi they they really do handle being let down really well
um i've never ever rolled a bead um obviously when you let your ties down you need to keep in
mind that you drop your speed and you also don't do any of those sharp turns or anything like that
unless you've got to get out of the way of a big cow or something but either way they they have
been very good in terms of um sidewall strength in terms of noise yeah getting a little bit noisy now
but in this car i can't hear unless i've got the windows down because it's soundproof to the max
and longevity so you can see just there on all all of the tyres including my spare for tyres that
have done that many kilometers to have that much tread left is unreal it's unheard of you know go
back 10 years ago and you wouldn't get that kind of distance out of a set of mud terrain tyres you
get all terrains you might get 70 to 100 000 k's i'm sitting pretty much at 70 000 k's on these now
and yeah hard driving just like that stuff up there
um maytown trip there that was a really that's the kind of stuff that i do all the time
i do that trip twice a year and on these tires that would mean i've done that six times which is
uh not correct it's five times it's only went once this year due to the coronavirus unfortunately but
what more could you ask for from a set of muddies they've done a lot of k's they're nice
and relatively quiet for muddies although starting to get noisy they ride well
i found leaving them pretty much at the recommended placard pressures that
my manufacturer has said for this range rover is the optimum pressure for them
and they haven't given me any dramas i've never had a flat i've never had a tyre roller for bed
uh in all of the time that i've been doing all this harsh off-road so i do recommend them will
i get them again absolutely i will i think they're a great tire and the best thing is they grip like
a mongrel off-road mud sand um and anything that i've thrown up dirt roads they handle fantastic on
the dirt roads uh and in the mud you let them down to 15 psi like i do and i haven't had a problem
they just kicked the mud up i'll show you in a second picture of the side of this range rover
but otherwise guys thank you for tuning in for this little review on my tires to see how they've
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