General Grabber AT3

[Hainey]

I'm looking for some new rubber for the discovery and these seem to be the new kids on the block so has anyone here tried them yet? They have some good marketing for sure regards to the three new technologies they are incorporating into them but I'd love some real world feedback.

It's worth noting these will be on the spare set of alloys and put on and used for when my boy and I go camping and hillwalking so they will see muddy tracks and fields, but they also have to get us there on highway for a lot of miles so I can't go more than 80/20 on/off road really.

All thoughts or even alternatives welcome

[cailean]

Have you looked at Yokohama's new G015's? Good reviews and winter rated.

[Hainey]

cailean said:

Have you looked at Yokohama's new G015's? Good reviews and winter rated.

I haven't but I will. Have you used them?

I actually have a set of Continental 4x4 winter contacts on another set of alloys I'll run on it in the bad weather so the winter rating on the new rubber thankfully isn't a consideration. One less thing to worry about!

[300bhp/ton]

Hainey said:

I'm looking for some new rubber for the discovery and these seem to be the new kids on the block so has anyone here tried them yet? They have some good marketing for sure regards to the three new technologies they are incorporating into them but I'd love some real world feedback.

It's worth noting these will be on the spare set of alloys and put on and used for when my boy and I go camping and hillwalking so they will see muddy tracks and fields, but they also have to get us there on highway for a lot of miles so I can't go more than 80/20 on/off road really.

All thoughts or even alternatives welcome

You can run MT's on the road fine. Don't really pay much attention to the on/off road percentage ratio. It's nonsense for the most part.

MT's might be a little more noisy on the road. But if you 'need' them when off the road, they'll work so much better than any AT.


That said, I'm not against such tyres. I just find AT's fill the niche of being the worst of all tyres. They might be jacks of all trades, but truly are masters of nothing.


For more road use, I'd tend to look at something like the new Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs or maybe even some like the Cooper STT Pro.