Greetings-
I have been having some fun in the garage and wanted to share some of my first projects on my 2016 Land Cruiser. I’ve been taking it slow but last month had the opportunity and pleasure to spend a week in the Canyonlands with my family and some friends. The truck did great but of course now I have a slightly longer list of todo’s
I welcome your comments especially corrections and improvements to what I have done. I tried to include as much detail as possible to possibly help someone in the future.
My first project -
Toyota TRD Rock Warriors and 285/70r17 BFG KO2
I like the look of the Rock Warriors and have always been a fan of the BFG KO/KO2 tires. As with many others I sized the tires to 285/70r17 and with stock lift there is no rubbing. The Rock Warriors wheels were OEM on the 2009-2013 Tundra Rock Warrior package, and I actually did find a set of new wheels at a nearby Toyota dealership but priced as such- about $400/wheel. I waited a bit and was fortunate to find a set of 4 wheels locally that were in nice condition for about half the price of a new wheel.
Toyota did change the part number of these wheels. The earlier wheel was part number PTR45-34070. The newer model is PTR45-34120. From what I can tell the only difference is that a small groove has been cut into the trim ring that adorns the wheel possibly to aide in drainage.
The wheels are a direct fit except the stock Land Cruiser lug nuts will not fit these Rock Warrior wheels and require the Toyota install kit part number PTR27-60110 which I found from Toyota Parts dealers online for around $150.
For those curious, here is a photo of a stock lug nut (left) and the TRD lug nut (right) that fit the Rock Warrior rims. The wide collar on the stock lug nut will not fit into the Rock Warrior wheel geometry.
A picture is worth a 1000 words- the stock lug nuts don't fit the rock warrior wheels.
The TRD branded kit includes new lug nuts all around plus a security lug nut for each wheel and custom keyed socket. (I have heard that some people have had this strip out so I remain cautious to not over torque them beyond the 97 ft-lb for the Toyota aluminum wheels).
Discount Tire mounted and balanced the wheels and were great to work with. In the past on some different trucks I seasonally swapped out winter tires. While I probably wouldn’t do that with these, old habits die hard and I decided to keep my original Land Cruiser wheels intact with the GranTrek tires and OEM TPMS sensors.
I purchased a new set of standard TPMS sensors from Discount but they could not get them to pair with the Land Cruiser computer. The programming tools that Discount had were not working on the 2016 Land Cruiser and they called Toyota who said that only their (more expensive) TPMS sensors would work. We swapped in the Toyota TPMS sensors but had the same problem with pairing the sensors with the computer.
Discount suggested we take it to the dealership who then spent a few hours working on it before solving the problem. It’s still a bit confusing to me, but it seems the 2016 Land Cruiser can only store 5 tires in its TPMS memory and the new wheels would need to be (re)registered with the TPMS computer system anytime a new set was used. And at the time the Discount TPMS tools were not able to do this on this model year Land Cruiser. I was surprised that it was this challenging and I would have hoped the dealership would have been able to solve it much faster than they did. In the end though both the dealership and Discount chalked it up to learning and did not charge us the extra time- that was really cool of them.
However, I am still not quite sure the exact process for resetting or registering new tires in the TPMS system in the future, although to be fair, I haven’t searched if there is a how to out there for this model year.
I dig the look and have been really happy this first upgrade. Looking forward to sharing more with everyone.
-Jeff
(edited for typos)
I have been having some fun in the garage and wanted to share some of my first projects on my 2016 Land Cruiser. I’ve been taking it slow but last month had the opportunity and pleasure to spend a week in the Canyonlands with my family and some friends. The truck did great but of course now I have a slightly longer list of todo’s
I welcome your comments especially corrections and improvements to what I have done. I tried to include as much detail as possible to possibly help someone in the future.
My first project -
Toyota TRD Rock Warriors and 285/70r17 BFG KO2
I like the look of the Rock Warriors and have always been a fan of the BFG KO/KO2 tires. As with many others I sized the tires to 285/70r17 and with stock lift there is no rubbing. The Rock Warriors wheels were OEM on the 2009-2013 Tundra Rock Warrior package, and I actually did find a set of new wheels at a nearby Toyota dealership but priced as such- about $400/wheel. I waited a bit and was fortunate to find a set of 4 wheels locally that were in nice condition for about half the price of a new wheel.
Toyota did change the part number of these wheels. The earlier wheel was part number PTR45-34070. The newer model is PTR45-34120. From what I can tell the only difference is that a small groove has been cut into the trim ring that adorns the wheel possibly to aide in drainage.
The wheels are a direct fit except the stock Land Cruiser lug nuts will not fit these Rock Warrior wheels and require the Toyota install kit part number PTR27-60110 which I found from Toyota Parts dealers online for around $150.
For those curious, here is a photo of a stock lug nut (left) and the TRD lug nut (right) that fit the Rock Warrior rims. The wide collar on the stock lug nut will not fit into the Rock Warrior wheel geometry.
A picture is worth a 1000 words- the stock lug nuts don't fit the rock warrior wheels.
The TRD branded kit includes new lug nuts all around plus a security lug nut for each wheel and custom keyed socket. (I have heard that some people have had this strip out so I remain cautious to not over torque them beyond the 97 ft-lb for the Toyota aluminum wheels).
Discount Tire mounted and balanced the wheels and were great to work with. In the past on some different trucks I seasonally swapped out winter tires. While I probably wouldn’t do that with these, old habits die hard and I decided to keep my original Land Cruiser wheels intact with the GranTrek tires and OEM TPMS sensors.
I purchased a new set of standard TPMS sensors from Discount but they could not get them to pair with the Land Cruiser computer. The programming tools that Discount had were not working on the 2016 Land Cruiser and they called Toyota who said that only their (more expensive) TPMS sensors would work. We swapped in the Toyota TPMS sensors but had the same problem with pairing the sensors with the computer.
Discount suggested we take it to the dealership who then spent a few hours working on it before solving the problem. It’s still a bit confusing to me, but it seems the 2016 Land Cruiser can only store 5 tires in its TPMS memory and the new wheels would need to be (re)registered with the TPMS computer system anytime a new set was used. And at the time the Discount TPMS tools were not able to do this on this model year Land Cruiser. I was surprised that it was this challenging and I would have hoped the dealership would have been able to solve it much faster than they did. In the end though both the dealership and Discount chalked it up to learning and did not charge us the extra time- that was really cool of them.
However, I am still not quite sure the exact process for resetting or registering new tires in the TPMS system in the future, although to be fair, I haven’t searched if there is a how to out there for this model year.
I dig the look and have been really happy this first upgrade. Looking forward to sharing more with everyone.
-Jeff
(edited for typos)
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