Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

Hi fellow Paj owners.

I had the experience with a set of BFG 265/65x17 AT that 2x of the tyres would not balance properly. (they were the spare on my trailer and Paj) This only started after aprox 20000km and being rotated twice. These tyres started doing heavy chunking aswell. Nov last year I met the Michelin rep at local dealer (Michelin importer for BFG)and he said sorry according to the sidewall date these tyres are over 5yrs old, and therefore no claim. The tyres then 5yrs and 4 or 6months old. I bought 8x tyres in Dec 2009 after purchasing my Paj in Nov 2009. (unfortunately cannot find invoice).
Accepting my fate, I had a look on BF Goodrich website as he told me a "new" AT is coming next year and vastly improved on the "chunking" BFG are known to do.
To my surprise I then see on their warranty that BFG comes with a 6yrs warranty. Took this up with Michelin, however they stick to their 5yr local warranty. So it is evident that we in SA get screwed out of 12months of warranty. Not as if BFG is the cheapest tyre on the market.
I'll be looking for new tyres in near future, definitely never BFG again!!

Allegro,

Did you see the Dec 2014 edition of DRIVE OUT? They had a tire shoot out with some major brands, unfortunately some others didn't / couldn't take part.

My favorites, the BFG's, actually ended up in position 15 out of 15
I was very disapointed.... but still love them.

Actually, still got one BFG running on my back rear, the others are Hankooks, but the spare Hankook is really a spare...

I have dealt with about 5 sets of BFG AT. All of them were rubbish.

Never ever again.

The Michelin reps are also useless. They say the chipping on my tyres is because I used them on gravel....

Interesting - 4 X 4 MAGAZINE and Wiele had a shoot out with around 10 different tyres and BFG came last they were the best ones upon a time ma times change and other tyres is much beter KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN LOOKING FOR TYRES and don't believe the sales men they will tell you any story to sell there tires

My brother has the same Pajero GLS as me.
Some months ago he put on Hankooks and I put on Bridgestone Duellers (about equally ranked in the shoot-outs).
The Hankooks appear to give a better ride, and appear to be lasting better.
Dave

Hey, thanks for the heads up Dave.

Will have a look at them aswell when I'm buying.