Ford Raider Tyre Reviews

If you are shopping for Ford Raider tyres, this page is the place to start. It pulls together ratings and written reviews from Australian owners, plus practical guidance on sizing, load ratings and what suits a ute.

What to look for in Ford Raider tyres

Tyre choice on a ute is dictated by load before anything else. The placard load index is set for the vehicle at full payload, and a tyre that meets it unladen may be marginal with a full tray, a canopy or a loaded trailer on the towball. Light truck (LT) construction gives you a stiffer sidewall and a higher reserve, at the cost of a firmer ride and a little more road noise when the tray is empty.

Beyond load, the decision is really about where the vehicle spends its time. Highway-terrain tyres are quieter and cheaper to run for a ute that mostly does bitumen and the occasional gravel road. All-terrain tyres trade some tread life and fuel economy for chip resistance and traction on dirt, sand and wet clay. Mud-terrains only make sense if the vehicle genuinely lives in the rough — on sealed roads they are noisy, wear quickly and lose wet braking performance faster than most owners expect.

Ford Raider tyre sizes and fitment

The authoritative source for your tyre size is the placard on the vehicle itself — usually inside the driver's door jamb, sometimes in the glovebox or on the fuel filler flap. It lists the size, the minimum load index and speed rating, and the recommended pressures for both normal and loaded running. Because the Raider was offered with more than one wheel and tyre combination across its life and variants, the placard on your car is more reliable than a generic size list.

Ford Raider tyre reviews from Australian owners

Every review on this page is written by someone who has actually run the tyre on their own vehicle, which is why they cover things a specification sheet cannot: how the tyre wore over 40,000 km, whether it tramlined, how loud it got as it aged, how it behaved on wet country roads at night. Filter by tyre brand or size to narrow the list, and if you have run a set on your Ford Raider, adding your own review helps the next owner in the same position.