Bridgestone Dueler Tyres

[Engel]

There are lots of different tyres that are all made by bridgestone, and all have the "dueler" name.

697 in LT are the good ones, and I would thorougly recommend them

Some of the others are nowhere near as good

And as I found out 2 in the 697 LT one I think is 6 ply and one 10 ply. In 245/70/16 one has a load rating of 113 (1150 kg) and the other 118 (1320 kg)confusing.

[dieseltojo]

We banned them from a 4x4 club I used to travel with due to the early wear and steel becoming visible at the tyre edges. They were not a bad as the rubbish sold by ARB at the time though.

The caveat here is this was 15 wears ago, and we were doing more expedition traveling than even hard core 4 wheel driving. Our vehicles were with out a doubt on max load as well, so severe conditions indeed.

[chrissmith61]

I had 16" 70% profile AT Duellers on my Colorado ute, rotated every 10000km and replaced at 60000km (with at least another 10000km,s or more left in them) with a set of 17" 65% profile HT Duellers, bought off Ebay. I have almost 50000km on them now and still plenty left. I am not into going offroad and very happy with blacktop performance.

The 70% profile did ride a lot smoother than the 60% profile.

[PeterD]

My problem is they go out of round and sound like a wheel bearing has gone.

[FREELANDER]

I have Bridgestone 697 fitted to Jeep GC, 50000km and the look like there is 15000/20000km left on them.
Had Kumho tyres previously, they were un-roadworthy at 22000km.
cheers
Freelander

[geoff&glen]

I have done 40,000 on our D MAX fitted with Bridgestone D840 would be only half worn if that , most of that milage is towing the van I am happy with mileage