Given
79%
while driving a
Toyota Landcruiser
(225/45 R17) on
mostly country roads
for 40,000
spirited miles
First, I bought them in LT 275/70R18 size, increased from original 285/60R18 size for 200 series Landcruiser.
They are a beast of a tire for offroad, mud, gravel, rocks, anything you throw at it will be OK for it. Sidewalls are very stiff, I had 0 punctures. After around 40 000 miles I'd say they are at little below half life. I piched them on roots, stones, drove them at 1.2 bar over lot of stones and mud, nothing hurt them.
They are rotated every 6-10 000 km, whenever I find some time to do that. Pretty noisy on tarmac (luckily sound insulation is great), lots of grip for a mud tire on dry road, although they seem to activate ESP a bit earlier than AT's in slower, sharper corners, but I'd say that is also due to changed tire size. On wet road handling is decent, not like road-tires, but decent. I can drive behind everyone going average speeds and not have problems. Aquaplanning is non-existent for these. They do swallow a lot of fuel, I'd say 1,5-2 liter per 100 km increase... They are very heavy compared to AT's. Due to stiff sidewalls, car will tend to sink in mud, especially heavy car.