All Terrain Tyre Comparisons

Yes, I would be interested in 1st hand experience of both BFG K02s AND Cooper AT3 Sports, as well. (I guess experience of the former may be more likely.)

Still haven't ruled out Coopers in 195/80/15 - although I note from the Web that the Coopers in both original AT3 and now AT3 Sport, have some reports of growing very noisy once the tread is half worn.

And I still don't really understand why K02s have a B rating for wet grip - yet user reviews place them "middle of the pack", at best, for wet weather performance. It maybe the stronger sidewalls that have an impact and therefore account for this - I don't know?

Sorry, wjamieson, these are more questions - not an answer to your original query.

I've been researching quite a few different tyres and in the end I have ordered a set of KO2s.

At first I wanted to keep the size at 195/80/15 and there really is limited choice, but after having a chat in Suzuki when I went to pick up my load mat, their system says that 215/75/15 is 'best fit' and is within Suzuki acceptable limit.

In the end it came down to either Geolandar GO15, DynaPro ATM RF10 (very reasonable price & decent reviews) or KO2.

After reading multiple reviews on all of them, there are always a few that criticise wet tarmac grip, no matter the tyre - I think this is fairly normal for AT. GO15 appears to be constantly criticised for weak sidewalls and the DynaPro for getting noisy. The KO2 seems to be the best suited offroad and looks better than the others in my opinion.

I'll get them fitted this week and after a couple hundred miles perhaps I will be able to give a better view.

Great to see someone making a decision (and I include myself in the waverers)!

Enjoy your new Jimny - and I'll be very interested to hear your thoughts in due course.

I'm considering various 215/75R15's at the moment. One of which is the Falken Wildpeak AT01. On mytyres.co.uk there are two listings for the tyre, with different model numbers and slightly different dBa rating. Does anyone have and idea of what the actual difference might be.

www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?dsco=...=Ordern&typ=R-212694

www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?dsco=...=Ordern&typ=R-334115

I've only had the K02's on for about 100 miles, but I thought I'd post a couple of pics and give my first impressions. I drove a very tame green lane, so I haven't explored the potential of them fully off-road.

On road, they are no noisier than the bridgestones that come from the factory, there really is no difference whatsoever. Fuel consumption has taken a hit, by about 1mpg so far. ( I expect this to get worse, the tyres are a lot heavier, I don't think the trip computer will be accurate until I've put more miles on them)

Ride quality is similar, it was a bit bouncy for a start but I checked all tyre pressures and the tyre place had put 30 in even though I asked for 26, once I set the pressures correctly, all is normal again. Note that I opted for the 97 load rating tyres instead of the 100 load rating which seem to be more readily available.

In regards to wet braking on tarmac, I feel that I've been able to compare this fairly well as we've had a ton of rain since I have had the car with plenty sitting on the road surface around my local area. I honestly cannot feel any difference between the Duelers and the K02's. Everything is behaving as exactly as expected.

Things may change as I put more miles on, but I am feeling pleased with them so far.

That's good to hear! I like the look of the KO2's more than any other tyre.

Looks aggressive and does wonders for the jimny!