cooper max tyres

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Not a new issue unfortunately mate. Nor is their warranty. Imho coopers are a marketing triumph. I hope you get somewhere with them.

Welcome to the murky world of the Cooper Tires warranty, a world of promises, broken promises, lies & deception!

You will find that all tyre warranties are on a pro-rata basis.
According to Victorian Consumer law, "if you have a valid claim for a refund, repair or replacement, the store must handle your claim"

Unfortunately Bill you're in a bit of a no win situation. Cooper have a history of refusing warranty for various reasons, offroad use, wrong pressures, not rotated/balanced per recommendations etc then if you do complain long & hard they may give a pro-rata warrenty but replace them with exactly the same brand that just failed to meet your needs the 1st time. Do you really want to fit the same tyres again that split particularly when it's been a common fault?
Advice: Consider cutting your loss's & moving on.

Why do folk buy this brand of tyres?
We continually here about problems with both the tyre brand and the poor warranty on claims.

Now, I happen to have two Cooper Discoverer AT3's on my tug. Why?
They were the only brand available at Birdsville when I had to replace a pair of Bridgies destroyed while traveling the Birdsville Track. (It happens when you run them flat!) My fault. My bad. I didn't practice what I preach to others on airing down. (But that is another story)
The Coopers appear to be wearing OK but not my first choice in tyres. I prefer the Bridgestone Dueler 697 AT LT as my first choice, for cost, reliability and performance reasons.

Same thing happened to me. Have a look at this thread.
http://www.myswag.org/index.php?topic=43678.0
Keith

Is this thread sponsored by B.F.Goodrich or Mickey Thompson??
I'm over 160,000 km in my Hilux and on the second set of Coopers. They've been very good performers on all surfaces, and the next tyres/tires I buy will be the same brand.

A mate works for a company doing power line contract work throughout QLD.
The work utes are all fully loaded/heavy (some towing plant trailers as well) and not many choices on the condition of roads/tracks or terrain, they just have to get in there.

In the early days they tried many brands, Cooper, Bridgestone, Toyo, Maxis...etc...
What they run now is the same for the last 5 years, Mickeys, ATZ , P3.

Maybe not relevant to all of us, different applications, and keep in mind that in that line of work they were prioritising the durability of their tyres over the buy price or the wear rates.

follow up on cooper tyres.... went back to local tyre dealer,where i purchased the tyres, have been away for a month. the rep had a look at the split tyre and agreed to replace it, as they had a bad batch that was subject to splitting. as i pointed out to the dealer,that as all 5 tyres were bought at the same time they were more than likely to have the same problem. my offer to him was replace all 5 tyres and i would contribute $500 and not a penny more. he agrees that they should be replaced and said he would get back to me in a week. i also pointed out that i was prepared to go to vcat or small claims tribunal if no response. there warranty is misleading as no one could comply with the stipulations. also why were the tyres not withdrawn as they are a major safety issue.........will let you know the outcome.(also told dealer to tell rep i would make it a major social media issue) incidently the first tyre replacement was on a prorata basis at this stage i have paid nothing/ regards bill

As it seems I've been lucky not to have ever owned Coopers tyres I nearly purchased some around 6 yrs ago but even back then after doing some research I found they were one of the most complained about 4WD tyres on the market and were quite often resilient in backing up their warranty. But they still gained popularity over this time due to 4WD magazines promoting them and flooding the market with advertisement it all seemed to good to be true well that seems to have been the case for quite a few of their customers so I'm glad I went with my other choice of Kumho's.

further to my recent text. after talking to our local dealer, and told to piss off, i decided to take the matter to vcat. whilst filling out the forms i decided to ring cooper, as i was told by the dealer they would do nothing unless the tyre failed. i was answered by a office boy who suddenly became concerned and said he would get someone to ring back. i said they had 24hours as i was about to lodge my vcat applic. within 29min i recieved a call from coopers state manager. he was very concerned about the issue, and has arranged 5 new tyres to be sent to another near agent. he assured me that we would come to a happy agreement. i told him that i had been in touch with consumer affairs, and they have told me, on three occasions that there is NO provision for pro rata in Victorian law. if a tyre or battery fails they caun't ask for part of the cost depending how many miles you have travelled. though this has to be reasonable. if a tyre fails after say 80,000k ,this would seem a reasonable milage. 20,000k should be claimable if manufacting fault