Member Since: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Melbourne
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Continental Cross Contact AT - Tell me why not?
AT2's are the tyre of choice. I get that. Good tyre. However, I do like the look of the continentals. Can anyone tell me the goods and bads of these tyres, both on road wet, and off road. I have searched the web, cannot really find any quality reviews, so thought I would return to the font of all knowledge, here.
Thanks, Matthew
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26th Nov 2008 3:08 am
Jonty
Member Since: 13 Oct 2007
Location: On the beach
Posts: 417
They're new so not many reviews. Look the part though....
26th Nov 2008 12:00 pm
mtb
Member Since: 08 Dec 2006
Location: sydney
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I have has one seller tell me unofficially that they come from the same factory. This is unconfirmed but....HSE TDV6 Silver. Roof rails, Adaptive lights, electronic diff. Now its time to add a few extra bits..... Dual Battery setup, Rhino Roof Racks, UHF / VHF radio, ARB bar and winch, custom storage..by me ... Now trying some Grabber AT2's.
. You're right Mathew, they do look good.Did you think I would leave you crying,
When there's room in my D3 for 7,
Climb in here Joe we'll soon be flying,
I can go just as fast with 7.
2005 TDV6 S with Terrain Response (& all that entails), Tasmods (gorn). 2008 TDV6 HSE (gone). A Dark Side umbrella (here) & car (here).
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Continental own General.
27th Nov 2008 6:43 am
mtb
Member Since: 08 Dec 2006
Location: sydney
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Andy - have you had any feed-back as regards these two products? The Conti and the Grabber AT²??HSE TDV6 Silver. Roof rails, Adaptive lights, electronic diff. Now its time to add a few extra bits..... Dual Battery setup, Rhino Roof Racks, UHF / VHF radio, ARB bar and winch, custom storage..by me ... Now trying some Grabber AT2's.
27th Nov 2008 6:58 am
AJS4X4
Member Since: 30 Mar 2008
Location: Surrey
Posts: 3224
The General AT2 is a great tyre and suits the U.K. and Europe 100%, it should work well for you boys "down under" too.
The Conti is not available as of today in the U.K., maybe in time. looks nice though.
I bet it's nice and warm down there !
All the best
Andy.
27th Nov 2008 9:56 am
mtb
Member Since: 08 Dec 2006
Location: sydney
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Thanks Andy.
Sadly we have had unseasonably cool weather lately here on the east coast - hopefully it will warm up soon.
Have you any knowledge of comparative puncture resisitance of these products??
regards
mHSE TDV6 Silver. Roof rails, Adaptive lights, electronic diff. Now its time to add a few extra bits..... Dual Battery setup, Rhino Roof Racks, UHF / VHF radio, ARB bar and winch, custom storage..by me ... Now trying some Grabber AT2's.
27th Nov 2008 11:14 pm
russgs
Member Since: 28 Jun 2008
Location: Herts
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mtb wrote:
Thanks Andy.
Sadly we have had unseasonably cool weather lately here on the east coast - hopefully it will warm up soon.
m
O/T yup, that'll be the climate change/global warming shenanigans again
bit like having snow in London during October!2006 D3 HSE
2004 BMW R1200GS <-- it's a two-wheeled disco
2008 Suzuki Splash (sick of my D3 being wasted on the school run)
All the tyre shops I have spoken to only recommend the one that they sell, except one tyre supplier who sells the both the General Grabber AT2 and the Cross Contact AT. He recommended the Cross Contact AT.ATACAMA SAND SE ,V6 PETROL, AUTO ,WINDOW TINT ,SIDE STEPS, SPORTS ROOF RACKS, ARB BULLBAR, KAYMAR REAR BUMPER TWIN TYRE, HID SPOTLIGHTS, TX3540 RADIO, ICOM 400PRO, GPS, DUAL BATTERY SYSTEM, MITCHELL BROS TOW HITCH.
14th Dec 2008 1:55 am
Getafix
Member Since: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Melbourne
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Went out today with a bunch of D3's + lots of other landrovers of different shapes and sizes. We have had horrendous weather over the last two days, so quite wet. All the other D3's (several with active diffs - not mine unfortunatly) had AT2's, I have the continentals. The continentals did everything the AT's did, very comfortably. I was running them at 24 psi. They kept reasonable shape at this pressure. No damage to the tyres (too bad about a couple of scratches on the alloys .) One hill we went up was a bit slippy at one spot, (a D2 got caught up at first run) and I reckon I went up the slowest by far out of all the other vehicles through this stretch. Minimal slip happening - easy . This made me think the tyres were definately doing their job. Very happy with their performance today in the clayie (is that a word) slippy stuff. When we went down one hill. (quite steep) the tyres got "filled" with mud so they became quite slick. However, I looked at all other tyres there, even some defender type quite rugged tyres, and every tyre was clagged up too. So didn't feel too bad about that.
Overall, in general driving, I believe the continentals are quieter than the AT2's by a smidge (please don't hold me to that, just the conversation I was having with others today) and moving from the wranglers, I have had no issue with the tyre volume at any speed. I have found the continentals a touch slippy in cornering in the wet when pushed quite hard, however, I am afraid I cannot comment on the AT2's in this aspect. No scary moments however at all. (I would not have cornered the wranglers at that speed in the wet, so may not be a helpful comment). Definately lots of spray at freeway speeds. I presume that means they have no danger of aquaplaning?
I have no idea how they will wear, I am told the AT2's will do better? Not sure how people can say this when the tyre is so new.
The ratings on the continental are traction A, wear 660, and temperature B. They definately run warmer at freeway speeds than the wranglers. My tyre dog pressure/temp monitor has the temp at about 100 (presume that is not celcius ) Wranglers used to run at about 70.
Not being an expert as this is my first AT ever, please take my praise with a grain of salt as the voice of inexperience. Am I happy with the continentals - definately
Just a note - mine are rated at 112T not V!<*(((<<
14th Dec 2008 9:39 am
Jonty
Member Since: 13 Oct 2007
Location: On the beach
Posts: 417
jeff66 wrote:
So which tyre do I buy, I have three options all 18 inch and AT style. But very little info on all three tyres.
General Grabber AT2 255/60/R18 (112H) $469.00 each
Or
Continental Cross Contact AT 255/60/R18 (112V) $426.00 each
Or
Pirelli Scorpion ATR 255/60/R18 (112H) $396.00 each
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. You're right Mathew, they do look good.
, wet grass 
and snow 
traction, not 'rooproofness or scorpon resistance 
.) One hill we went up was a bit slippy at one spot, (a D2 got caught up at first run) and I reckon I went up the slowest by far out of all the other vehicles through this stretch. Minimal slip happening - easy 
) Wranglers used to run at about 70.
