Cooper tyres overrated???

Cooper tyres overrated???

You only just working that out now??

Yawn

Its the same in our club.
All the flats are the coopers.
Same crap every trip yet they all swear by them. One day they will see the light.
No probs with my MTR's 2 sets heaps of off road still good.

I have Coopers ST and dont have a problem with them, I guess if you go off road in the Pilbara, knowing the terrain, what would you expect.
Taking about different tyre types on this forum is a dead issue, everyone has a different experience.

Shortly after replacing my Cooper AT with Wranglers and discovering I also had my correct wheel alignment back, I decided to let the Australian distributor of Coopers know how disappointed I was with their product and all dramas they had brought me.

7 puntures of which the last one was right through the tread block.

Endless and unsuccessful wheel alignments to correct a left drift. Finally resulting in advice from Cooper that could have caused major damage to the steering due to over adjustment. Thankfully a Toyota service found it before it got worse and problem gone.

Lets say I' still checking the Inbox for a reply.

You couldn't give me a set of Coopers.

I have heard they are so soft, that they make good fishing boat fenders!

I've had Coopers, BFG and Bridgestones. I thought the Coopers were ok but not great and certainly didn't live up to the hype. The bs required to keep the guarantee valid just increased the cost of an expensive tyre. I suspect if you had the number of wheel alignments, balancing and rotations (carried out by an authorised dealer of course) that the guarantee expects you could get another 10,000km out of any tyres.

Steve

I ripped a block off one of my Cooper STs told MR Cooper that I was not impressed, he asked a lot of question and give me a slap on the rest for not lowering the pressures to a least 18 psi when in very rough conditions. I had already brought a set of Mickey Thompson MTZs so he gave me $150 off, had the Coopers fixed (one only) $40, they are now on the MU Wizard.
The other part of the story....dropped psi in the MTZs to 20psi and on same track ripped a small piece off one of them to.
So will I buy Cooper made tyres again NO and I think I will go buy a cheap set of Chinese things as they will probably do as good.
Cheers Bruce.

I have tried BFG AT's and Cooper ST's - and they performed the same from my experience. Both chipped on the edges and the Coopers cracked where the blocks meet the carcass ready to be ripped off. (and I have tried 2 sets of Cooper ST's and both did the same.) I never got a puncture in either set and I did 2 crossings of the Simpson and many trips to the Vic High Country in both brands.

However I now have Cooper STT's and they are fantastic. I can actually feel the difference that the tread makes - it really grips the tracks! And to my delight - no chipping, cracking or chunks taken out. I will see how many km's I will get out of them and if reasonable I would definitely get them again.

No. Never........Surely if you spend bucketloads of money advertising something that is no better than anything else and then get a big name such as Ron Moon backing it, it must be the best!!!!!!!!!

A puncture proof tyre....any tyre, now I'd like to see that. Maybe some are better than others, but a stake through the sidewall is just that, regardless of what brand is on the rubber (surely!).

Running Cooper STCs, so far so good.........

Cookie

To be fair to Coopers (I don't really want to be.....and Ron Moon is an old mate of mine), they are very good on bitumen and in sand, especially when aired down to lower tyre pressures. They are so-so on gravel roads but give good grip overall.

I bought my first set of STT's expecting wonders and at $1625 for 5, I came away disappointed. A number of sidewall stakes happened and then at around 28,000km the beads started cracking and my tyre bloke said it could be dangerous. Coopers let me have a new set of STT's with "More protection on the tyre curve" and away I went. This time around I did a little bit of offroad driving watching very carefully where I put the wheels.

The result of these excursions was 8 sidewall tears and one tyre completely u/s. I had tried to get some splits rims and cross plies before going on these treks but that didn't happen and I paid the price for taking these tyres, with their paper thin sidewalls, into the scrub.

So now I have 5 Cooper STT's sitting in my garage with 90% tread left and only useful for shredding or as flowerpots.

GQ now shod with split rims and 12ply rating MRF Super Traction Crossplies for bush tracks and offtrack work.

Daily driver tyres a set of El Dorado ZTR's, just as useless and made by Coopers but good for bitumen travel.

Cheers

Well - I know the Coopers have been bagged for sometime now....

I have had 265/75 Coopers ATRs on my Navara now for 30k. I've done 2 CSRs, a Gibb Rvr Rd, in and out to/from the Bungles (at speed), and after the last 10k trip ended up with a 20mm tech screw in one of them - easy fix (could have done that in my driveway). No other problems! I think I've still got 70% left.

Just did a 4 day trip on the Holland track and did a sidewall - threw the casing away! Does that justify giving up on this product?

Where do I go from here? I don't know - want to go a full set of BFGs but can I justify the expense?

We all have to remember that "tyres" are an "expense" not an asset. As are shockies if we're doing these sorts of trips. And I'd replace and take spare shockies (whatever the brand) on these big trips!

So the question is.....what tyre is the best?

I am waiting for you replys!

Regards Richard

Pfft, I am on my second set of Coopers, and more than likely I will by a 3rd set when these are done and dusted, if I was going to get a cheep set I would just stick on some Kuhmo MT’s or something.

I think I have had a good run with Coopers to be honest, thou maybe I just don’t expect then to handle like a SP9000 on road, then take em off road spin em, thrash em over rock sand and mud and then expect them too look a million $$ after it all.

Had 2 sets of Coopers on different vehicles now - the worst tyres I have ever owned. Would not accept them as a gift. Also note the so-called 'guarantee' is void if you go offroad. Found that out the hard way.

Cheers
John

YEP IN MY EXPERIENCE COOPPERS ARE OVERRATED. I had no end of trouble with 4 that I had fitted and had them replaced twice, turns out they were a faulty batch, but Coopers did honour the warranty and as well gave me numerous tokens of their esteem to shut me up, all of which I threw away.
My next set of tyres will be the elcheapos from Kmart, I've heard good reports and Kmart seem to be miles cheaper.......

Well all i can, like i said before. Had Em once NEVER AGAIN!!!