OT--New Toyo Tires on the DD

863 · Mar 25, 2003

Short Version:

Well, after a rather spectacular flat on my pickup 200 miles from home I ended up buying 4 new Toyo Open Country A/T tires. Seem to be a pretty decent tire so far, on snow, ice and wet and dry pavement. No mud to try them in. Will let everybody know how they hold up.

Long Version:

While visiting my family 200 miles south I had a flat that destroyed one of my winter time Goodyear Workhorse Extra Grips (studded). Nobody in town had another one in 235 75 R15. I thought about just puttin on my summer tires (Hankook T-34 mudders--one of the reasons I was down there was to pick up my wife and my summer tires) but they were close to shot too. Decided to go ahead and replace the summer tires and mount them up with the Toyos. Brought the three good winter tires home and I can pick up a matching one studded in Anchorage in a week or so. These tires look pretty decent, so I'm hoping they are going to do well on the DD since I'm not taking it off road anymore.

The only experience with Toyos I've had is on commercial trucks, where they are a good tire. Anybody used them on smaller rigs before? How did they hold up?

Caver Dave · Mar 25, 2003

I had a set onmy old Nissan4x4. I think they were 235s and I got about 40K ot of them before I gave them to my brother. He ran them for awhile (10K more?) until they slicked up. They were decent for ATs...

1917 · Mar 25, 2003

Yeah, much smaller. '79 Subaru wagon. I put a set of their "snow and rally" tires on that car and drove the pee out of it, everywhere. road, mud, snow.... they were amazing. (lived in Seattle and went to the mountains alot) never had to bust out the chains. 2 1/2 years, about 35,000 miles later I sold the car, tires still had lots of life left. oh, and they were pretty darn quiet on the freeway, too.

863 · Mar 25, 2003

Thanks guys! That's what I was hoping to hear after shelling out $480 for a set of four (mounted and balanced). I appreciate the response!

Guest · Mar 25, 2003

OVer here they exist for some years now. Cheaper than the rest, but it turns out to be just to break in the market. I see them more and more on the Jeeps around here, also on Yotas, Zukis, Rovers... all kinds of SUV and Off-Road vehicles.
Also they're on some serious amount of those little-city-tuned-up Golfs, Zukis, and all other kinds of "sports" cars.
I'm completely convinced and am going to use Toyos when changing tires.
Not to mention they cost (around here) exactly the half of Michelins, BFGs and similars.

1917 · Mar 25, 2003

Wow, $480 doesn't sound bad. I know I spent just about $300 for mine, but they were dinky little 13's. (and that was 15 years ago) still worth every penny, though.

BlueDevil; what model are people runnin' on the jeeps and such? I looked at their website and it only showed the M/T in a 37" for an 18" rim.

Guest · Mar 25, 2003

They offer (for Jeeps and wanna-bees):
Open Country A/T
Open Country M/T
S/T High Performance
M-410 All-Season LT
M-606 Open Country 4+
M-54 All-position
M-55 All-position traction

...plus all the other passenger car measures (some of which could fit to a Jeep, like 215/75/15, 235/75/15, 255/75/15, 265-285/80/16 etc).

Guest · Mar 25, 2003

Sorry, maybe you needed this info:

In AT model they offer:
30x9.5
30x10
then a whole bunch of euro-measures (which cna be converted to the US-system with a calc or similar),
all the way to
35x12.5x16
35x14.5x16
35x13x18
35x14x18

In the M/T range, you're right - they only offer 38x15.5x18.

I just called the local importer where I was told that the full range of M/T measures is coming on during this year, and also some other measures that don't exist yet.

BTW, have you Americans ever heard of FULDA tires? Maybe somebody sells them over there? It's a German brand, a VERY VERY VERY good tire at affordable price (a bit over Toyo, but still under Michelin, BFG etc).

1917 · Mar 25, 2003

Cool, thanks. I don't need them right now, so maybe by the time I do they'll have more M/Ts available. I'm hopin' for some skinny 33's.
Thanks again.

lomodyj · Mar 25, 2003

Toyo is what I've put on all my CAR's everything from bugs to Jetta's, GTI's, a 911 a Camry and a CRX. they are really good tires and come in at the lower end of the price scale.

863 · Mar 25, 2003

Wow, sounds like I did okay. Gonna go play in the snow more later today. Thanks again everybody!

Javajeeper....check out the Trail Mark M&S tires. They are made by Kelly, and that in turn is owned by Goodyear. I've got them in 33 x9.50 on my CJ. Skinny 33s! I got a way with only 2.5" of lift since the back tires tuck up into the fenderwells at full flex. That appealed to me for keeping the center of gravity low.

OT--New Toyo Tires on the DD

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