Given
80%
while driving a
Land Rover Defender
(235/85 R16) on
mostly country roads
for 25,000
spirited miles
I drive a Land Rover Defender. Prior to getting my most recent I always though the General Grabber TR looked good but would be a joke offroad.
When I bought my last rover it had them on and I instantly changed my mind. They do look good but they are fantastic road tires, they transform this chunky clunky vehicle into a nice motorway car, noise is lower than any defender tire, but the really surprising thing is these things are really good offroad.
They can handle any gradient of rock or gravel (an have had them on the gradient limit on wet rock, just as well if not better than the BF Goodrich Mud Terrain / and better than the Goodrich All Terrain TA), but forget it in mud - they are not a mud tire. I've not had them in snow yet, but all ive heard from people I know running them.
Beacuse I have the cash im going to buy some beefy winter tires for the hell of it, but if you drive a Defender, you should be running with the Grabber TR tire in the summer it is great and a full 5 mpg better than a mud tire on the road - that is important in a Landrover!
If you are a farmer or one of those idiots who drive in mud pits for the sake of it, get something else.
Oh yeah and the wear is phenomenal. Mine are half worn at 25,000 miles. My dad took a set off a rover which did 60/40 Road/offroad which had done 55,000 miles!!! Amazing, but be warned, at this limit, although the tread is still good i've seen the wires coming through the inner walls - check them!
Will buy again.