31 January 2008
Cooper Discoverer Sure Trac tyres
Posted by Mick under: Equipment; Equipment Review; Land Rover; Reviews .
I bought DSCVRY (my 2001 Land Rover Discovery TD5) in December of 2001 and in February or March of 2002 I replaced the standard Bridgestone tyres that it came with with a set of Cooper Discoverer Sure Trac (S/T) tyres. This particular brand and model where recommended to me by a man I met in the town of Hawker (in the South Australian Flinders Ranges) who ran 4WD tours into the local country nearly every day of every week during the year, and he swore that I would not find better tyres anywhere..and he wasn’t wrong.
After completing around 105,000km in the six years since the tyre change, and covering terrain as diverse as beach sand, desert sand, rocks, rivers, seldom used mountain tracks, good (and bad) bitumen and everything in between, and not having had one flat tyre in that time as well, today was the day I finally bit the bullet and got four new Cooper Discoverer Sure Trac (S/T) 245/75R16 tyres installed onto DSCVRY again.
I have no doubt that the new tyres will be just as good and reliable as the old tyres and will without a doubt install Cooper Tyres on any other off-road vehicles I might happen to buy in the future…say for example a Series 1 Land Rover or an old Military Land Rover Defender ;)
I would also probably not hesitate to buy them from the same place I visited today, Stuckey Tyre Service in Brunswick (Victoria). I ordered the tyres early yesterday afternoon, they arrived at lunchtime today, i dropped DSCVRY with them at around 1.30pm and it was ready to pick up at around 4pm for the grand total (including fitting and balancing) of $1,149 or $287.25 a tyre :)
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