best multi purpose tyre for on/off road use?

second howard's reply. BFGs all the way - I have tried some of the other brands through the years, but always find myself going back to these. Only time they are bad is if you want to go to southern europe often as they are a very hard rubber (and the roads there are very smooth because they use more chalk in their tarmac): they tend to be a bit slippery then on the road....but are great for offroad in the summer and don't puncture anywhere near as much on the gravel tracks as other tyres do (including Coopers!)

Just fitted Michelin Lattitude Cross. I think they are very good all-round. They are 60 / 40 road biased. They also have a lot of sipes, which makes them good on snow too.

Look at the new European ratings for wet braking, economy and noise:

Michelin Lat Cross:      C,   C,   71dB

BFG-AT:                       C,   G,   77dB

Wrangler -AT:               C,   E,   73dB

You're not comparing like for like, Michelin make great tyres but the latitudes won't do what the BFG AT's will or put up with the abuse that the AT's can take.

I ran my last set at 8 to 16psi for many hundreds if not thousands of miles off road. Only one puncture as well in their entire life. They still lasted for around 45k miles. I've replaced them with the same, my only regret being I should have gone for the MT2's.

If you're not interested in any real off road use go for the Latitudes or equivalent though. There are compromises with any AT or MT tyre, sorry stating the obvious.

No question about it, they will be significantly better. But then for a vehicle like the G Wagen you're never going to have great on road dynamics.

What size are we talking?

BFG very good except for when they get old despite plenty of tread not that much grip on road?

Just got Cooper AT3, fantastic in snow, very quiet on road, released a few bhp as well, probably not the best choice for serious off road but as a compromise seem good to me and cheap!

On 225/75 16 only limited to 104mph, but don't think I would get near that, 80 mph maybe on a good day.

Also have the original 255/75 15 Alloys and tyre choice in that size very bad, I think only Kuhmo?

Sipes worked really well in snow on Cooper AT3 but tyres were brand new so that obviously a big help, up there with Latitude for me, but can't comment on how long they last? Much quieter than GoodYear ATS, revelation to MT !

I've recently been testing the Goodyear Duratracs on three different cars, my FJ80, a 1985 300GD, and a 2004 G500.

We have done everything from rock crawls to desert to beach and now recently 2 feet of snow.   I really like em.

They have nice siping in the tread for good braking in the wet, ice, snow, etc.

The tread blocks are a mix of mud terrain shapes and all terrain shapes

The rubber compound is softer than the BFG AT but harder than my BFG MT KM2s

I run them at 18psi offroad and they have been superb.

Do they offer these in UK?

for winter tyres try mytyres.co.uk, order in October and availability and prices should be good.

255/75 x 15 = 30/9.5 x 15 (I Think) Should give a wider choice inc BFG a/t