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Herman
Member Since: 11 Jul 2006
Location: Walvis Bay, Namibia
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The feedback is much appreciated, thanks.
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 23rd Jan 2007 1:55 pm |
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dbregman
Member Since: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Southern California
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How is the road noise?
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| 23rd Jan 2007 6:43 pm |
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JAB
Member Since: 22 May 2006
Location: Near Apeldoorn
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And the performance loss because of the 5% larger diameter.....
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| 24th Jan 2007 9:12 pm |
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Baben
Member Since: 15 Feb 2006
Location: Kyalami
Posts: 2059
 
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NO such thing. I did 7000km with the Copper STT 275/65, 4000km of which was serious offroading. No appreciable difference in performance
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| 25th Jan 2007 12:12 am |
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JAB
Member Since: 22 May 2006
Location: Near Apeldoorn
Posts: 95
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Oke !
That sounds great... I saw you have a tdv6, and I wondered about the performance cause had realy noticable loss of power with the TD5 and larger tires, thats why !
Maybe no wait for the grabbers at2, and go for the BFG..... 
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| 27th Jan 2007 4:12 pm |
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robsmith
Member Since: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Staffordshire
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How is the road noise?
I've fitted BFG ATs to all three of my previous LRs. On both the Classic and the P38 road noise was minimal, possibly less than on the "kojac specials" that I had to fit one wet afternoon when I had two tyres shreaded by scrap metal dumped on the trail (glad it was my tyres no a horse's leg that got wrecked....)
As others have said the life expectancy is amazing, after 60k miles on the P38 I was down to about 8mm on all four.
Looking forward to them being avaialble in a size to fit the "new" Disco3 here in the UK.
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| 29th Sep 2007 10:37 pm |
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Spanish Fly
Member Since: 09 Jul 2007
Location: somewhere over the rainbow
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Michelin (owners of BFG) have no plans to bring these tyres to Europe yet despite many promises. This is the exact tyre I wanted to fit to my D3 as I have always fitted the BFG ATs to my other Land Rovers with awesome reliability.
I had to go for the General Grabber AT2 in 255/60-18. V rated. They are a replica of the BFG's. I will be trying them out in Morocco next month. I'll let you know if they are any good....
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| 29th Sep 2007 11:26 pm |
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Desert Traveller
Member Since: 06 Aug 2006
Location: The Gabba - QLD
Posts: 420
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I have used BFG AT's on previous 2 Discos. They may achieve good mileage but I never found them to be a good offroad tyre, the sidewalls were too stiff and the being a long wearing rubber compound they chipped very easily on gravel roads and in rocky terrian. I found that the AT2's actually have more cut resistance than the BFG's. On a recent desert trip the Nissans with BFG ATs and MTs suffered more chipping than the AT2's.
Note my post regarding low profile tyres in general.
http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic14769.html 06 TDV6 SE with many LR and after-market extras. Used only on weekends and trips out west.
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Previously 01 TD5 and 94 TDI
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| 1st Oct 2007 2:19 am |
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JamesWyatt
Member Since: 18 Feb 2007
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 92
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Desert Traveller wrote:...the sidewalls were too stiff...
D load rated or E? I had the BFG MT in E on a D2 and is was indeed stiff. The D rated BFG ATs on the same vehicle were not so stiff. They looked like they were already aired down at anything below 40psi.
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| 1st Oct 2007 4:15 am |
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