Kumho Road Venture MT51

Worst tyres I have had – Absolute garbage tyres. Noisy as hell, pathetic on wet roads, wearing quick. Can't wait until Monday when 16,000km tyres will be thrown to the closest dump. Will never buy again and suppose you guess I don't recommend them. Show details

value / performance – 245 70 16 on pk ford ranger paid $220 ea . Excellent 50/50 tyre , actually more 40/60 road offroad i feel and sat in a unique space in the market for a while but now other manufacturers are doing a true 50/50 all be it more expensive than the kumho . Noise when new is very good as is wet road grip but anyone that knows aggressive tyres of any… Read more

brand will know both those attributes deteriorate with wear .At 50 % tread they were still acceptable and didn't require much of a driving adjustment but beyond that you had to be careful on sharp or sudden turns in the wet and to expect more than that is naive at best , arrogant at worst . Off road they were excellent for a so called all terrain . i towed multiple vehicles up a greasy hillside with ease one day and some of them had half worn bf Goodrich ko 2 on them which are the most over rated tyre on the planet . I did 60000 ks on them but the reality is this , after 40000 the benefits of an aggressive tyre are gone. Same goes for any aggressive tyre because i have use many different brands over the years and they all end up the same , they wear faster than hts they are noisier , they don`t grip wet roads as well but its a compromise and you have to decide if you need them or not . The issue with poor reviews on these things comes from people buying them for how they look rather than how they perform and once the performance drops the looks dont mean as much so they bag them . Take home message if you live in the city buy a cheap set of steel wheels and put the aggressive tyres on as a second set for the weekend then take them off and use the oem or a good road tyre to get to the cafe ,work, gym or beach . that way you can look good on the weekends and have a great off road tyer that isnt worn out from going to the cafe or gym or beach or work .

On the fence between OK and good call it 3.5 stars – I've done about 25,000km on these MT51, I've driven across Australia once, I have done 3 trips on the worst rocks imaginable in the Flinders Ranges and driven on wet roads of course as well. They have taken some minor damage in the tread from the Flinders trips, not significant. Being 18 inch they have taken cuts to the side wall when deflated to… Read more

around 20Psi for off-road use, I'm no tyre expert but the cuts look superficial only and that country can slice a tyre like a knife through butter. Road noise is not bad given the aggressive tread pattern, they do let go a bit when the road is wet as people do seem to remark but my vehicle has traction control so that is taken care of quickly. I have had them rotated regularly and overall wear is even. No flats at all. I would be confident saying even with my level of hard off-road activity on rocks I would get another 20-25K km out of them at very least. I've had some different brands of tyre including Goodyear Dura-trac ($$$) and to be honest I would probably choose these over those again. If you don't off-road much buy a more road bias tyre, but these are pretty good if you take it off road once in a while, they're pretty tough.

Fantastic tyre for outback touring – I have had these tyres for 50000 km on a Landcruiser 100 series turbo diesel and they still have 9mm of tread left. They aren't too noisey either ,except when travelling on very smooth bitumen. The tyre place I bought them from said they were heavy but balanced up well with very little weight and i haven't needed to have them re-balanced since… Read more

new unlike BFG All terrains I've owned before.

I recently did an outback trip covering thousands of Km of dirt roads and they came through will flying colours , with no punctures and no evidence of any damage.

The only downside I have experienced is sideways grip on gravel/dirt roads is probably not quite as good as some other all terrains I've used .

One thing that did surprise me was they are made in Vietnam ,given that i would consider them a high quality product.

They also haven't seemed to suffer from the dreaded heel / toe wear either .

The only other tyre I have used that is as good is the original Goodyear Wrangler MT/R , but they don't make them anymore

To sum up they are a very tough and great value tyre that I would buy again over any American brand .

Great all rounder – I have had these for 38k and they still have 12mm of tread. I bought five and rotate them every 10k. I went one size up with 265 70/17 R LT's. Gave a tad more clearance at 31.6" diameter compared to the standard 265 65/17 at 30.5". These tyres are the quietest aggresive all terrain tyres I've owned. MT on these stands for mixed terrain not mud… Read more

unlike other makes. They are a tad noisier and lumpier than when new but only minimally so. They have not started to go off and harden up and are great in the wet or dry on tar. I run 40psi on the blacktop/dirt roads and anywhere between 20-28 in the scrub depending on terrain. They are surprisingly good in sand as well. They have never left me stuck in any terrain and will lug you out of clay or mud better than most mud tyres can! I have a minor tear on one lug from rocky tracks but have had no punctures or sidewall damage.

At around $300 a corner they are great value compared to the opposition. I recommend them highly and will definitely buy again.

These tires are excellent off road – Having done only 15,000 they haven't had much chance to wear and still look new. Good on road and off the black top. Wet country roads haven't been a problem. I can not say what they would be like on wet city roads. So far so good no uneven wear, rotated every 5,000k. Show details

Good tyre – Put on at 30k on Prado done 90k now with about 50% tread left. Wear a bit uneven but not too noisy. 1 slow leek from screw. Not too bad in either. I have had coopers loved them I have Mickies on my triton still have them. Louder than the Kuhmo’s and wear very uneven. Show details

Got to 48,000 but couldn’t handle the noise – So today I’ve swapped over to some new tyres replacing my MT51s. Pros - great off road with great traction. Cons - so noisey and loud! They were great at the start but as they started to wear down, the noise and vibrations became worse to the point of being unbearable. This is with regular balancing and rotation. I’ve changed over at 48,000km… Read more

with tread remaining. Could probably have gotten another 20,000km out of them.

I guess that’s the downside to being a muddy.

Have now moved across to some BFG KO2s

25k old and not much tread left – I have done just over 25,000kms on my Kumho MT51s and i am very disappointed. As others have stated they wear very strangely. They were rotated at 5000kms, 10,000kms and then at 20,000kms. There was a very bad wobble in front end when they were rotated at 20,000kms. An alignment and having them rotated sorted the wobble out. I have had to lash… Read more

out and buy another set of tyres for an up coming trip as i do not believe the Kumhos will do the job with how little tread they have left.

At the current stage they are very skatey on gravel and have spun up fairly easily on asphalt without trying to.

Tyres are terrible – Tyres are terrible wearing very unusual and uneven, was rotating them and also had wheel alignments. Got 40’000k’s just! when I purchased them I was told I would get 80’000 no worries at all. Terrible Tyre will never purchase another kumo Tyre again, do not recommend anyone to purchase these tyres Very dangerous for incompetent drivers.  Show details

Off road great, that's it – The tyres are currently at 34K and they are not going to reach 50K. My experience off road with these was great. On wet bitumen, hang on! Absolutely terrible on wet bitumen. If I was driving around town with enough water on the road I would occasionally put it in 4WD. My next door neighbour has just done 55K on his Goodyears and they look brilliant. I think if you are only doing dirt driving these would be great.  Show details

Great value for mony – I got mine on special in 33x12.5r15, did 3500 kms over a few weeks up and around the Pilbara and back to Perth towing a camper trailer. Did lots of gravel work, lots of beach, and even more on the blacktop in a 90 model GQ patrol, tyres were 2/3rds quiter than the old muddies I had on there, and used a bit less diesel. Good grip in the wet, with the old tank feeling prettt sure footed. Am buying these tyres again to put on my new Ranger.  Show details

Great budget tyre 15000km and wearing evenly – I have done 15000km on these tyres so far and very happy with them. Great grip off-road and ok on road. Noise is better than expected for a MT tyre. With about 2000km done off road cannot fault them. They do seam very soft and don't expect a long life out of them but after 2 rotations they are wearing evenly. If I can get over 60000km from them will buy them again.  Show details

Must rotate – Extremely impressed with these tyres off road! The side walls are very strong, they bag very well and grip tremendously well on rock climbing . They are an off road tyre primarily so no point dwelling on on road performance but if you drive accordingly they are very good. They must be rotated every 5k FL-RR FR-RL RR-FR RL-FL ! Well worth doing this and they wear brilliantly.  Show details

Very very soft 25,000 and wont get 30,000km – Work great off road very poor stopping power on britherment but over all if i got better life from them i wont buy 2nd set. Rep offer new set of kl71s for $92 a peice so pretty happy with that. But that did take bit of a fright to get but. Btw 285 75 r16  Show details

Odd and shocking wear – These tyres are great on road, in fact the best off road tyre i have had all round....except for the excessive wear!! Like a few other people who have these tyres, i have had some very strange wear patterns and very quick wear and that. Have had the Kumho people tell me it was everything from bad wheel alignments, to the tyre pressure, to the… Read more

geometry of my car not agreeing with the tyres, right down to the so called Kumho engineer telling me i was carrying too much weight in the back. That weight is a 90kg toolbox i might add.

crap wear! poor back up. Dumb engineers!

If you have the money to pay for rotations and wheel alignments every 5000lm or new tyres after 30000 km then they are a great tyre. If you want a value for money from a tyre from a company that backs their product up then i recommend you look elsewhere.

Great tyres so far. 10000 ks in – The tyres have handled lots of dirt and low psi driving really well. It has a very soft compound which will likley wear quickly. But I would rather a safe tire than one that lasts ages and chips and slides all over the place. I'm surprised there are not more of these on 4wds... As they are a great 50/50 tyre or an agresive all terrain.  Show details ·  1

Tyres Waring unusually – I purchased 5 x MT51 Kumho Road Ventures and was told I would get 80,000km. I travelled around Australia last year 2018 July to October via NSW, QLD, NT around WA from Queanbeyan NSW and discovered that the front tyres were wearing weirdly, never seen this before, the front of the nobs were up and the rears down and slanted. swapped front to rears… Read more

every 10,000 but then the unusually wearing tyres transferred to the rear made a lot of noise until worn even again. Again yesterday 3 April 18, tyres are now at 30,000km and easily more than half worn. I was told to drop my tyre pressures down to 32 psi as side walls are very hard on these tyres, problem not rear only front and I usually put 36psi in the rear for towing a 2 ton caravan. I travelled some of the most harshest roads 4x4 and caravaning around Australia and never ever got a flat tyre, so performance in handling hard and sharp stone, corrugation, 45 degree temps and sand good. This unusual warring of the front tyres is wearing them out quicker and will not make their guaranteed 80,000 km that's for sure.

Would I buy them again? If I can't identify why I am constantly getting this unusually warring on my Nissan Patrol GU (doesn't seem to be wheel alignments) and I expect I will only get 50,000km out of the tyres, probably not.

12 months old at fitting :( – Previously Tyre were road venture KL 51 w 80,000km warranty. The KL51 went hard before the km warranty was reached because they were almost 2 years old at time of fitting, I don’t spend a lot of time on the road so thought this was a great option, but when I started sliding out (at 4th year of fitment and at least another 10,000km remaining tread)… Read more

at rounds about i realised something was wrong and was told they had reached the end of their life span??? I enquired about new Kumho’s Road venture HT51 thinking the last batch were bad luck but no the new tyres are 14 months old.

Great tyres good price but seem to only supply old

Stock.

Perfect fit – From my precious experiences, this has been the most durable tyre fitted to my car. It gives a good grip on rainy days on and smooth ride as well. Manage to run it close to 80,000 km before replacing with the same type. One of the cheapest Japanese tyres with quality that matters.  Show details

Good Japanese brand – These are probably the smoothes tyres I've used on my car. Ive used cheap Chinese brands before and you can feel the difference when you're on the freeway. I feel like these tyres are fuel efficient and we have saved a lot of petrol. Less wear and tear on the tread of the tyres  Show details

only going to last 45k – My set have spent 85% on the sealed surfaces around Sydney and highway use, the other 15% is Fraser Island, Vic high country, Blue mountains, central coast hinterland. They perform great off-road, on lower pressures side walls don’t bulge but the length of tread increases well, rock or sand they have gripped very well and remove mud and stones. … Read more

On sealed surfaces they don’t have great breaking and wet roads hold well no aqua planning but low speeds they do slip a little. Comfort they have been great as stated before sides don’t have a lot of give but the three ply side walls are worth it.

My biggest frustration is I’ll be replacing them at 45k when I expect a minimum of 60k for a LT tyre with the deeper tread

it sok – i replace these tyres and not happy with performance as i was expecting bit more my tires are not very good they changed front wheels but am not happy with the service and cost, they are not cheap as compared to other brand but they r not very good yes..  Show details

Brilliant – Excellent tyres had them for my falcon 500 Then my mercedez 300se 1986 And now on my 1987 300 sel Mercedes. They go for a very long time I get them at Byford tyres service were you can't go wrong terrific people and fantastic service . And great affordable prices!  Show details

Out standing tire – I had theses tires on my new d-max since new. The car had 10000ks in the clock before I changed to theses. Now the clock on my car is 93000km and 5-6mm tread left. 80% road use 20% sand. Never been bogged, had only 1 flat tire. Supplied by Noels tire shop Wacol. 285/75/16 with a 3" lift. Tires are rotated and balanced as per agreement and had a 60000 km warranty at the time of purchase. once i click over 100000 I will replace them .  Show details

1 of the best set a boots ever used – yea I started usin them around 120 k/s ago cause they were recomendeded by a tyre dealer bloke basicly cos of their price compared 2 real 4wd boots which generally r crap 4 reguler road use I cant remember the brand that was on me ole girl origanaly but plurry noisie & rough on normal road use anyhow these things r micky mouse on the road & blo me down they have never let me down in 4wd situations long an short I would highly recommend them ???  Show details

Fantastic tyres – Have had mine on my 2014 D Max ute for 12000 kms. Very little wear, having been on a 7500km trip to QLD towing a caravan and 2000 kms offroad hunting. Fantastic grip. Very quiet and smooth. Great sidewall strength. My last tyres bagged in the sidewall and were cut in numerous places.Extremely happy considering I only paid $230 fitted for each tyre. Would certainly buy them again.  Show details

Great value for money – Purchased a set of 5 MT51's in 285/75R16 and run them on my PX ranger. Great offroad grip in all terrains, most impressive in soft sand (Yalata, SA) where they really shone! I have now put 35k on these with a good mix of hard offroading, towing and highway use and they still have plenty of tread. Im expecting close to 70 - 80k at this rate. They… Read more

have very respectible road manners (incl wet bitumen) and arent to noisy. I rotate mine every 5k (incl spare) and id happily recommend these to anyone.

My only complaint is they are a PITA to balance.

Excellent so far – I purchased 6 of these in 33s and have done 5k since purchase Perfomed really well off road as well as on. Tackled mud, rocks and hills with ease. Grip is good and minimal noise. If they hold up well in the long term I do plan on repurchasing these. Only complaint is that I wish they had the white lettering as they look too plain without it.  Show details

Great – Have ran pretty much every major tire on different rigs on different terrain. Have to say this would have to be or close the being the best aggressive all rounder I have had. And they are great in deep sand which is a hard achievement for a relatively aggressive tire. Will see how they go as they wear but so far, they are really impressive especially for the price. Size is 285's x 16 on a PX Ranger  Show details

Bloody good off road tyres – Kumho MT51 had them for around 20,000 km and love them, expect close to 70,000km before replacement, a little noisy on tarmac but not over bearing. Fitted to a Nissan Navara D40 2014 with 40mm lift. Off road these tyres are awesome, regardless of gravel, stones, mud, dirt roads they perform fantastically well. Purchased them from Smithfield tyre and auto a Kumho official dealer.  Show details

Pretty Happy – These tyres are a great allround tyre, exceptional on road grip for a mud tyre, very soft rubber making it easy to break up the mud when 4wdriving, got 40 000KM out of them which wasn't to bad I thought being a soft tyre but I would have hoped to get a bit more than that.  Show details

Only got 29,000 km from mine – I like these tyres. But after 29,000 kms around Australia they are completely stuffed (2014 Colorado, no towing). We drove all the main off road tracks so I am not complaining. We lost one to a sharp stone (sidewall ripped open) on the Gibb River road. One fell apart after probably 15,000 km ( with a blow out on bitumen on the way to Cape York… Read more

after some hard driving out to Arnhem land. One on our Colorado now has one of the treads flapping (hence three new ones are going on today) . Only getting new MT51's as I have a brand new spare that I want to use. All our hard 4wd is done now. I am not sure if this was good wear or not as they were hammered and were driven hard , we have pretty much gone everywhere. Hope this helps Size: 265/70 R16 117/114Q

Great off-road - a little noisy on the road – The Kumho MT51 tyres are available at a great price which was my main reason for purchase. I purchased 265/75/16 size and they are really grippy on the road and so far very good offroad. I got offroad as soon as I could and they performed really well in the mud and slippery clay. They have quite chunky tread (14.5mm depth) without being as… Read more

aggressive as other mud terrain tyres; Kumho sell these as "Mixed terrain" tyres (50/50 MT/AT). So far I am very happy with them although they do make a bit of road noise, especially at 50km/h. The dealer assured me 70 thousand K's so we'll see, so far I've done 1000km.