Sand Tyres

lucknow · Post by **lucknow** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:43 pm

Hi there,
I see a lot of people with sand tyres on their cars....they seem to be specialist tyres not really designed for high way use - especially at high speeds in hot weather. Are they that much better off road to warrant buying them? many thanks for your thoughts!

iguana · Post by **iguana** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:23 pm

Sand tires are great in the desert but too noisy on road ... Max. safe speed will be 140KM ... Thats why if you notice we never cross 140KM in a convoy .... They tear very quickly as well so you need to change them frequently ...

I think for the Hummer Mozi, H3 and Baz have the BF Goodrich A/T and they say it's perfect ... so you can get their feed back on this issue ...

Kris · Post by **Kris** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:29 pm

self edited since irrelevant.

iguana · Post by **iguana** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:34 pm

Kris, You are still thinking of Siams all the time man (remember our long post earlier

) .. The guy is talking about Mud Tires like the Kumho, BFG M/T or the Cooper SST .. not the Siams and Baloon tires

Kris · Post by **Kris** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:09 am

yep Iguana , still thinkin abt those tyres.

jst a matter of time before i get them.
sorry , thought sand tyres were sand tyres , not muddies.
my bad.ignore previous post.

Batal · Post by **Batal** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:46 pm

I'm using sand tires for almost one year:

As Kris mentioned before they are excellent for off road drives, only in flat areas because they don’t dig and just float over the sand, but they slip a bit during dunes climbing.

Very soft on road and noise level is very low.

Optimize the car speed\|fuel consumption, due smallest amount of contact area to the road, which of course causes less friction.

On road braking is poor.

Very slippery on damp roads.

Mpenzi · Post by **Mpenzi** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:13 pm

I just dont understand why people buying then and use them on the normal road. They are very low speed rated and had caused many fatalities on the road.

There are so many tire choices that are multi or dual purposes and perform well.

My advise:- Dont buy them.

MegaMoe · Post by **MegaMoe** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:23 pm

again what the guys are talking about are the sand siam tires, what u mean lucknow is the mud terrains they're amazing but noising.