by holden4th » 13 Jan 2018, 7:04 pm
The 80,000 km claim might have a couple of caveats as well. Friends of mine with Cooper ATs found that after about 45,000 ks the rubber got quite hard and lost it's grip on the bitumen, especially in the wet. My experience on 4WD trips with guys who had Coopers was that sidewall staking was a problem. Saw one guy go through two AT tyres in less than 100 kms on the Simpson, leaving him only four. Luckily he got through to The NT without another problem. Personally, I think that Cooper's are overhyped and expensive as well.