chunkymunky
New Member
Bump. Looking at them right now through newlife tyres. £260 delivered for same tread as mine
Hi, I know this is an old thread but we were just discussing Marix Lions a few days ago and I have used them extensively off road and on road so just thought I would add my tuppence worth as 3 people have mentioned them to me this past year.
My old boss left me in charge of buying and decking out our work land rovers for a few years. We needed more aggressive tyres than our BFG's and my boss was quite tight with spending on the vehicles so I opted for Marix Lions (275's if I remember correctly).
I personally spent a few years driving with these on a 90 and 110. I covered anything between 400 - 7/800 (with the odd week over 1000) miles per week on the roads and some really really heavy off-roading.
Drove through rain, snow, ice, mud, rocks - you name it. I was even on the back roads during that couple of crazy winters we experienced - driving daily on small roads that hadn't seen a car for almost 7 weeks due to the thick compacted ice.
In the few years I used them, we didnt experience any punctures or sidewall cracking. The treads lasted incredibly well. We got through almost anything - the winches only coming out in incredibly bad conditions.
I managed to push my way through a bog on one occasion and only got stuck when I sank into a wet mud hole - lets put it this way - the winch was below the ground level and the electrics we knackered for 3 days. We were regularly working in remote areas - often flooded and boggy.
Going through flooded roads required a good grip on the steering wheel and you had to brake a little more gently in heavy rain n the roads.
But all in all - I found them a very very good tyre with predictable road manners and an awesome grip in the mud. And they lasted for ages - yes we drove them until they were almost bare as boss didnt believe in new tyres until they resembled slicks - but they lasted a long long time.
They kicked mud up everywhere and soaked pedestrians in the rain, and were noisy on the motorway but by God I loved them.
So much so that I have put a set onto my new personal Land Rover.
I should also mention that we were driving standard 90's and 110's, no suspension lifts, snorkels or other fancy bits...just bid of fiddling to stop bigger tyres rubbing....and they performed every single day - always under extreme pressure due to almost impossible deadlines and often driven hard and possibly a little wrecklessly (in fact dangerously by one individual).
Yet they persevered though everything. 2 breakdowns in all that time...1st electrics as mentioned above -DRIVER FAULT 2nd dodgy pulley snapping belt.
Which just goes to show how good they are with just a simple set of agressive tyres.
This is the period that got me hooked on them - wanted my own ever since and finally managed to justify it!!!!
My old boss left me in charge of buying and decking out our work land rovers for a few years. We needed more aggressive tyres than our BFG's and my boss was quite tight with spending on the vehicles so I opted for Marix Lions (275's if I remember correctly).
I personally spent a few years driving with these on a 90 and 110. I covered anything between 400 - 7/800 (with the odd week over 1000) miles per week on the roads and some really really heavy off-roading.
Drove through rain, snow, ice, mud, rocks - you name it. I was even on the back roads during that couple of crazy winters we experienced - driving daily on small roads that hadn't seen a car for almost 7 weeks due to the thick compacted ice.
In the few years I used them, we didnt experience any punctures or sidewall cracking. The treads lasted incredibly well. We got through almost anything - the winches only coming out in incredibly bad conditions.
I managed to push my way through a bog on one occasion and only got stuck when I sank into a wet mud hole - lets put it this way - the winch was below the ground level and the electrics we knackered for 3 days. We were regularly working in remote areas - often flooded and boggy.
Going through flooded roads required a good grip on the steering wheel and you had to brake a little more gently in heavy rain n the roads.
But all in all - I found them a very very good tyre with predictable road manners and an awesome grip in the mud. And they lasted for ages - yes we drove them until they were almost bare as boss didnt believe in new tyres until they resembled slicks - but they lasted a long long time.
They kicked mud up everywhere and soaked pedestrians in the rain, and were noisy on the motorway but by God I loved them.
So much so that I have put a set onto my new personal Land Rover.
I should also mention that we were driving standard 90's and 110's, no suspension lifts, snorkels or other fancy bits...just bid of fiddling to stop bigger tyres rubbing....and they performed every single day - always under extreme pressure due to almost impossible deadlines and often driven hard and possibly a little wrecklessly (in fact dangerously by one individual).
Yet they persevered though everything. 2 breakdowns in all that time...1st electrics as mentioned above -DRIVER FAULT 2nd dodgy pulley snapping belt.
Which just goes to show how good they are with just a simple set of agressive tyres.
This is the period that got me hooked on them - wanted my own ever since and finally managed to justify it!!!!
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Forgot to mention - 99% of my road time was spend carting a 1100 kg piece of machinery on 2 wheels around the country to and from the 'off road' work locations. So the Lions did pretty darn good. I would highly recommend them as the best value for money rubber I have bought.
Oh and yes had one issue where I lost grip on 2 inche deep compacted snow and ice - but that was downhill with 1100 kg pushing me and me being a pussy and stupidly touching the brakes - when through the hedge and landrover had a ding in the wing and some paint of the bumper!
Oh and yes had one issue where I lost grip on 2 inche deep compacted snow and ice - but that was downhill with 1100 kg pushing me and me being a pussy and stupidly touching the brakes - when through the hedge and landrover had a ding in the wing and some paint of the bumper!
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Just another note - my work Landy was on BFG all terrains when bought. I personally found them no better than any road tyre in anything other than a relatively dry field. Switched to mud terrains SH - but almost new (tight boss again) - they were a nice tyre but still got 'caked' up very easily. I found the Lions were far better at shedding the mud off themselves and generally just far far better in wet, muddy conditions and perfectly acceptable on the road. The mud terrains needed a bit more care on wet roads as well.
curious did you have a fault with them then and that's why you used their customer service?
they seem fine at taking your money and sending items, it's when it goes wrong.
