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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: CNorman on January 06, 2007, 12:15:04

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: CNorman on January 06, 2007, 12:15:04

Have heard a bit about cooper tyres lately and wanted to find out more however i can not find a UK website, the US website is slow and pretty poor on information and overall i would say that they seem to be a bit harder than other tyres to find information on.

Does anyone know if there is a UK site to look at and where to find information.

To be honest i would be concerned about aftersales and information etc judging by their current performance on web etc.

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: Mace on January 06, 2007, 13:25:08

Cooper tyres are/were imported into the UK by www.sintontyres.co.uk here in Milton Keynes. They operate a consumer website named www.tyrespec.co.uk

Hope that helps

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: Big Al on January 06, 2007, 20:43:13

I have Cooper ST's on my Disco. I saw them at the LRO show
at Malvern and bought them from Tyrespec website. At the time, last summer, they were only £65 per corner.
They work really well off road, and are well behaved on road.
If they are still at that price, I'd say go for em .

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: Mace on January 06, 2007, 22:22:57

They are offering the 265/75/16  STT's at the mo for £88 incl. !!!

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: selectcase on January 06, 2007, 22:35:18

Excellent tyres

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: SnakeLogic on January 07, 2007, 02:47:14

How about the ST's?  I checked and it seems only the ST (not the STT) is imported into Japan.  I'd rather have the STTs (they look pretty rugged, and with nice sidewall protection) but I may end up going with BFG M/Ts.

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: imspanners on January 07, 2007, 08:32:29

Don't bother with STT they're not as good as BFG.

They're more like a very good A/T than an aggressive M/T.

Wear is good, so they'll do the mileage but they seem to clog easily and they don't "bite" into loose surfaces just scrabble.   :evil:

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: SnakeLogic on January 07, 2007, 11:02:43

OK, thanks for the advice!

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: steve_h on January 08, 2007, 00:45:30

:?:  Just to clarify...

Quote

Don't bother with STT they're not as good as BFG.

They're more like a very good A/T than an aggressive M/T.

Wear is good, so they'll do the mileage but they seem to clog easily and they don't "bite" into loose surfaces just scrabble.  

imspanners, are you talking about the old STT or the new one. I have a set of the newer ones (£88 each as said above) and I can't fault them so far. The old STT was a much simpler tyre, more like a generic MT and no where near as good.

Cheers,

Steve.

Title: Cooper Tyres??
Post by: Divster on January 08, 2007, 08:50:55

I'm using ST's on my D2 as a kind of halfway between an AT pattern and a MT pattern. So far I have been thoroughly impressed. Got mine from Davon Tyres http://www.davontyres.co.uk and the sell through E Blag too