Kumho Road Venture MT-71 Studio Overview
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2020
- Welcome to the Kumho Road Venture MT-71 Studio Overview
We are looking at the new Kumho Road Venture MT-71, which is a seriously chunky piece of rubber.
Checking out the features of the MT-71 in our studio & what Kumho is saying about this new 'low road noise' mud terrain tyre. Find out more in the vid.
The Kumho MT-71 tyres will be put onto our long term 200 Series Landcruiser for a good 10.000km review.
Full Transcript:
- Today in the warehouse, we've got the new Kumho Road Venture MT-71.
Hey folks at home. It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of chunky rubber. And this is some of the chunkiest rubber that I've seen in a while. It's the new mud terrain tyre from Kumho. It's the Kumho Road Venture MT71. And now this is a brand new tread pattern from them, it's supersedes I think it's the old KL71, so that one's gonna be disappearing.
This one's gonna the new one and you could certainly say that it's a lot more aggressive than the old KL. So even though they're saying it's newer and more aggressive, they're actually saying it's still low road noise for a mud terrain tyre so, interesting to see how low road noise this is.
Once I actually show you the tread pattern, you'll understand what I mean by that. Why the little fingers going up and down. And they're also saying there's gonna have extra durability and cut and chip resistance. And so in terms of sizing, it's actually generally on your lighter sizes. So in Australia at the moment we have between 31 inch and 35 inch tyres, but it is only just coming out at the market at this stage so that may increase as they bring more ties into the country.
So let's take a look at the tread pattern. Come over here, come over here, come on, come on. That's it. That's it. So looking at the sidewall to start off with, it's interesting because they've actually got a super aggressive sidewall. It's actually the same on both sides, but they've sort of got these little crown shaped things going in looping patent and they actually stick off the sidewall by maybe five mil or something like that.
Maybe even six mil if I'm being accurate. And so that's really gonna help you dig out of those ditches. And it's probably some of the most aggressive sidewalls that I've seen in a while. Quick update, since filming this video, we found out that Kumho's actually offering this tyre in three ply in most of the sizes, however, some of the sizes are actually only two ply sidewall. And so that's all of the 15 inch size tyre, so that's the 31, 33, 35 inch tyres in the 15 inch, and also the 255/75R17 is also only two ply sidewall. The rest are three ply. And apparently they're actually releasing more sizes once this whole coronavirus thing comes down. So look out for them anyway, back to the office.
I think this has been designed for the Australian market, because look at these boomerangs. It's basically got this set of alternating boomerangs one, two, and then repeated again and again and again and I think actually now that I think about it, that's actually the Kumho logo isn't it? I'll have to confirm that one folks later on, but look at the massive void in this tyre. This is approximately 33 inch tyre, but I can almost fit two fingers in that one. And then we've got alternating blocks here as well. And you can see alternating skull of patterns here as well.
So this is super aggressive. If you don't rotate this tyre, you're gonna know about it, so make sure you rotate this tyre. Only five or 10,000 Ks at the most. You can also see here they've got these ejectors which are actually gonna help really get the mud and crap out of the tyre pattern. So we're actually sticking this onto our longterm test rig, which is the 200 series big black land cruiser. And it'll be interesting to see how they go in terms of road noise but also on the road for the daily commute and also off the road as well.
So tune in at about 10,000 K's and don't forget to subscribe so that we actually, you actually hear about notifications when we put up new videos, that'd be great. And also maybe let me know in the comments, what you think about these tyres and yeah, tune in 10,000Ks and we'll tell you all about how they've been. - Авто та транспорт
Great video! Diggin the look of tires. 🔥🤙🏼
Thanks Rick! They're certainly aggressive!
Great review. I've just ordered 12 of these mt71 for my dual cab and off road boat trailer with 2 spare for each.
Can't wait to test
Holy crap, that's serious! Make sure you do a review when you've got some km under your belt, and leave us some pictures too 👌
@@TyreReviewVideos will do! Planning on hitting up Gulf, Arnhem Land, Kakadu, Litchfield np, Gibb River road and the Kimberly, ex-mouth on a lifetime experience fishing and 4x4 tour.
Been planing for a year and boat and trailer have been a 9 month build so far. Done so much research on tires and I'll be able to test some serious Km and performance on these mt71! Will keep you posted in January-march when preparing final touches and during the trip from April onwards
That's great Jason! Some serious planning for a serious trip, and definitely keep us up to date with your adventures 🤘
I can't wait to hear either. I'm envious of your trip.
Awaiting your update!!
Cheers mate! I believe Chris has got a couple more thousand km to put on them before we can interview him about them 👍
These tires looks great!
How are those compare to the Cooper STT PRO?
I’ve been running a set on my Chevy Silverado and love them there a tough ass tire
Thanks for the feedback mate!
Just ordered 6 for my 105 I got
100,000km on the MT51 in 265/70R17,They were one of the best tyres I have used.
I will give the 71's a crack and see how they go.
Awesome! Sounds like it's a kick-ass 105, let us know how you go once you've got a few thousand km under your belt 🤘
Have you measured the overall diameter, they tell me it is poor. I would like the 285 / 70r17 to have 33" but they say they are 31/32", so I don't know whether to choose the 285/75. Help me thanks
Hey Carlo, the calculated size of the 285/70 R17 is 32.7", so not quite the full 33". Going to a 75 series means the tyre will have a calculated height of 33.8 inches, so closer to 34". Going to a 295/70 R17 gives a calculated height od 33.25", which is closer. Keep in mind that no tyre will ever be true to calculated size, and also once you get them on the vehicle, you will still have a flatter patch on the ground, so you won't get the full height gain of going the larger tyres. I just measured a few different tyres, and they were all marginally less than their calculated size, as well.
Pretty good review. However Kumho don't actually bring in the 255/75R17 into Australia. The 15 inch 31, 33 and 35 flotation sizes do only have 2ply sidewalls. All 16, 17 & 18 inch are 10 ply construction with 3 ply sidewalls. The exception to this is 33x12.5R18 & 35x12.5R18 which are 12 ply construction with 3 ply sidewalls. Further to this 305/55R20 & 35x12.5R20 are on the way and are 12 ply with 3ply sidewalls. You read it right. 12 ply. Built tough and all are LT construction.
Hey Kurt, good info! It'd be interesting to put the 12 ply to the test and see how much tougher they are 🤔
Got an update yet??
I’ve tried heaps of places and I can’t find these tyres anywhere. Why are they so hard to get?
We're working on it! Initial reports are that they're remarkably quiet in the first few thousand K's, and do okay in the wet. We'll get more insight for you once Chris has done some more K's 👍
Just realised that you mentioned that you couldn't find the tyres. That's hard! I know a lot of companies are suffering stock issues after a huge demand for tyres in the last 12 months, as nobody can fly, so they're all driving and going fun places. I know that Kumho is looking at bringing in more sizes and quantities of this tyre in the future, so hopefully you can score some ASAP 🤸♂️
Amazon got them with prime I just ordered 4
After 8 sets of KL71s, and hundreds of thousands of km of faultless service, with only two punctures, on 6 different vehichles being used in some ridiculously harsh country every day of the year, im looking forwards to trying these out.....
Let us know how you go with them Kevin 👍
255 85 16 available?
Check with Kumho in your local area for that, Yan 👍
Loud road noise after midlife
Yeah? Pretty loud? Nice!!
2 ply side wall, so not good for putting on a crew cab long bed 454 used for hauling a lot huh? Lol
Probably not! It'd be comfy, though 🤔
tread depth is rubbish 15.8mm !! should be 18 on the shoulders . kumho like all others are taking the piss on what are very expensive tyres