Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

I have almost done 100,000km on my Cooper ST's and they are looking bad. There is what appears to be a compression ring on the outside of the tyre on the tread walls and tiny bits of metal are sticking out at places, through the treads which I do not understand as the treads are not at the legal limit yet. The know-it-alls at a couple of the fitment centres sed that the tyres have gone off due to age and are dangerous.
Anyway, I think my tyres have given outsanding service and its probably wise to buy something round and black and new.
My problem is that I am severley financially challenged due to varying reasons, as no doubt many of you are.
What is the best tyre/price combo that you know of that will still be great to use and not give buyers remorse later on?
I have phoned around a little and R1500 -R1600 seems to be where things start. Is there anything cheaper that's still good? I am scared of buying secondhand used tyres as one does not know where they have been etc.etc.unless one of you have or know of 31/10.50-15 tyres that are secondhand and their history is known.

HELP!!
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Mitsubishi Pajero 2.8

Everyone has an opinion about brands, and I respect that. But if price is critical, try Dunlop - they have reasonable tyres that are reasonably priced.

Anton

R1200 each for Hankook Dynapro RF10

Hi Andre!

Try MERIT ALL COUNTRY tyres that comes from the Dunlop factory. Good value for money!

For more info, refer to this link: https://www.4x4community.co.za/forum/sh ... hp?t=10338

Hope this helps

Regards

Aslam

These guys have Dunlop AT's for under R1000 each:

http://www.tyrenet.co.za/specials.asp

Simon,

Can you recommend a good (cheap) place to buy Hankooks in Cape Town - am looking for 16inch.

Thanks.

dwinter wrote:Simon,

Can you recommend a good (cheap) place to buy Hankooks in Cape Town - am looking for 16inch.

Thanks.

I got mine from TWT Canal Walk. R1200, but I think 16's will be more expensive. GY Wranglers were the same price at the time, but no-one had stock.

thanks for all the replies. I phoned TWT in Canal Walk and the Hankooks retail for R1395 each, on special. I have decided to go with Hercules Terra Trac AW's at a good price of R5380.00 for 4 fitted, balanced with alignment included at Fastfit in Stellenbosch 021 887 2151 . I have read reports on these and most people give them a good report so we shall see....

Edit:
Andre, I added a photograph (hope you don't mind)
Gerhard

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Mitsubishi Pajero 2.8

My old man tried to teach me that "goedkoop koop is duur koop"

I didn't listen and bought regal tyres for my (now sold) jetta and 15'000km later I bought Continentals because the regals were shot.

What did I learn the hard way : "Goedkoop koop, is duur koop"

There are some deals to be had but stay away from the non-well-known names.

I would not rate Hercules as "less known".
In SA yes, but they have a good reputation in eg Britain.

R/km they might just be hard to beat (same as the Maxxis)