Advice re: wheels/tires

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Hi all.

Would like to bend your ear.

Recently purchased a clean low mile 2014 LX from British Columbia (no rust.) I live in Ontario Canada in the snow/rust belt.

Already rust proofed the car.

So I'm heading out of country for four or five months. I was initially planning on parking the car in the driveway for the winter but the mechanic mentioned some downfalls on that idea, specifically pitting of brakes etc. I also considered heated storage but I think what I will do is have my wife drive it a couple days a week instead of her car.

Right now it has the factory rims with all season tires. I plan on putting some 18's on when I come back with some nicer tires. In the meantime I'm torn between leaving the all seasons on there, buying a set of used Tundra 18's with winters on or buying a set of winter tires for the 20's that are already on there, then when I get back find some 18's.

Will run two sets of wheels and tires, winter and not winter...

Off topic: I found some 16" steel 70 Series rims and tires. Bolt pattern (5x150) and bore (110.1mm) is correct, offset is wrong though (18-22mm instead of 58-62mm on ours.). I can only imagine they wont fit?

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Thoughts?
 
I’m no mathematician, and also I’m working on my first cup of coffee, but those wheels likely won’t work. If the all seasons work, just run those. Wheels and tires can get expensive fast and it sounds like you don’t have a lot of time to really search properly for what you really want.

Good luck!
 
These rigs are great in the snow with decent all season tires on them. I'd run what you have and just have her drive it on days that the roads are dry.
 
The minimum size that clears the brake calipers is 17”, and not every 17” will clear.

I’d leave the all seasons on, or buy 20” winters,. If it is rocking the OEM coopers, I’d really suggest winters.

Lots of LX going around with some version of tundra wheel ion them. They can usually be had for very cheap.
 
16" Steel wheels "can" be made to fit but you have to have the right combination of offset, maybe spacer, maybe grinding some material off the calipers, maybe using the smaller OE rotors. The material thickness of steel is less than aluminum too. You have to really want them.

 
hoser said:
16" Steel wheels "can" be made to fit but you have to have the right combination of offset, maybe spacer, maybe grinding some material off the calipers, maybe using the smaller OE rotors. The material thickness of steel is less than aluminum too. You have to really want them.

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Are you sure those aren’t 17s? There were 17” Steelies available to ROW for several years. 17” alloys too (cast, not the RW forged version). The US never got any of these.

You can buy the 17” steelies as a pallet with tires out of a breaker in the UK, who got a bunch of takeoffs from the Gibraltar importer. Last I checked it was $1k with the shipping.
 
Don’t listen to the people saying run all seasons…. Since you understand winter you probably won’t.

These things are not all that great in the winter (heavy). I’m in Alaska and run 18” tundra take offs with studded Nokians as my winter set up.

Like others have said the 16 steelies likely won’t fit over the brakes. I have close to no space with the 17” rims I run in the summer on my 2013 LX570.
 
hoser said:
16" Steel wheels "can" be made to fit but you have to have the right combination of offset, maybe spacer, maybe grinding some material off the calipers, maybe using the smaller OE rotors. The material thickness of steel is less than aluminum too. You have to really want them.

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grinchy said:
Are you sure those aren’t 17s? There were 17” Steelies available to ROW for several years. 17” alloys too (cast, not the RW forged version). The US never got any of these.

You can buy the 17” steelies as a pallet with tires out of a breaker in the UK, who got a bunch of takeoffs from the Gibraltar importer. Last I checked it was $1k with the shipping.
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Yeah, those look like the OEM 17" option we see in Australia.

Also, by the description, it's a very stock truck. Doesn't seem like the owner is the type to do surgery to get 16"s to fit.
 
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hoser said:
Do 17’s come in split rim?

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Split rims require tubes. That would be truly ****ing bizarre if Toyota spec'd splits on a 200 anywhere resembling a first world country.

That said, the truck is sold all over the world, so there's probably a market for it somewhere... I know they spec splits on 70s in like New Guinea and other developing nations...
 
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Land Stalker said:
Split rims require tubes. That would be truly ****ing bizarre if Toyota spec'd splits on a 200 anywhere resembling a first world country.

That said, the truck is sold all over the world, so there's probably a market for it somewhere... I know they spec splits on 70s in like New Guinea and other developing nations...
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When I was in the Middle East I remember people running splits with tubes as they could run lower PSI with tubed tires.
 
Land Stalker said:
Split rims require tubes. That would be truly ****ing bizarre if Toyota spec'd splits on a 200 anywhere resembling a first world country.

That said, the truck is sold all over the world, so there's probably a market for it somewhere... I know they spec splits on 70s in like New Guinea and other developing nations...
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They are not spec’d for a 200. They are for a 70 series.
 
I've only seen split rims in 15" and 16". Hence, if they didn't make split rims in 17" size, those would be 16" wheels on that LX570 (with wheel spacers too).

Besides "developing" countries, you can fit split rims in Australia and Canada too.
 
hoser said:
I've only seen split rims in 15" and 16". Hence, if they didn't make split rims in 17" size, those would be 16" wheels on that LX570 (with wheel spacers too).

Besides "developing" countries, you can fit split rims in Australia and Canada too.
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Ah, gotcha. Yeah, either a mod to fit 16"s, or those are aftermarket jobs that look OEM. No idea, honestly.

We divide our time between the US and Australia... in Oz, nothing comes spec'd with splits, even in the NT... you can definitely buy them, tho. They make sense if the nearest garage with the capacity to mount tubeless tires is 600 miles away, lol
 
Thanks all.

Ordered a set of stock sized Blizzaks, Hakkapelitta's not available right now.

FYI here's the link for those 16" Landcruiser rims/tires. They are 225/95r16. I always ran "skinnies" on my Landrovers.
 
Land Stalker said:
We divide our time between the US and Australia... in Oz, nothing comes spec'd with splits, even in the NT... you can definitely buy them, tho. They make sense if the nearest garage with the capacity to mount tubeless tires is 600 miles away, lol
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Australia phased them out around 10 years ago but they spec’d split ring wheels on the 70 series workmates.
 
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