31" simex mileage ???

[vitman]

Looking at splashing out and putting a set of .either 31/9.5 or 31/10.5 simex extreme Trekkers on my lwb vitara ( 3" spring and 1" bodylift ) how are they for mileage ? I have got 235/75r15 Nanking mudstars on it at the moment and they are upto 45thou kms and still only half worn , and advice would be great cheers

[juz]

45,000kms and the simexs will be very very bald.

[Weemsy]

They are terrible on the road, really bad...
Worse in the wet, not at all designed for tar seal and wear quickly. Unsure of how many km you would get from them if used on the road a lot, maybe 20,000?

[Suza]

Didn't think you bought simex's for good life expedience. the handling is so close to being dangerous on the open road its not funny you drive around corners in a series of points e.g. a sweeping corner you break down to a series of small straight lines and pray that you don't hit anything remotely slippery e.g. painted lines in the wet

This my experience anyway others will probably chose to disagree

[vitman]

Oh bother due to where I go it does a lot of raid driving to get to the off-road spots so would need to be a reasonable tyre on the road any similar tyres that perform well off-road yet still not to bad on road ?

[Weemsy]

I had gt radial adventuros on my escudo and it went really well, mate had sumitro mo Serengeti and they were good too. Loads of choice in 31 inch.

[juz]

Theres good reviews for the Silverstone MT117 Sports, was considering them as my next tyre, Federal Couragias also have a nice open tread pattern IMO.

[fish]

New dueler mts are awesome on road. Feels look ke ats to be honest. They are a good patern for offroad too. Only time they have felt sketch was under heavy breaking in wet. But abs takes care of that