Performance of Toyo MT in winter roads (1 Viewer)
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Funny you should ask... I live in Boulder Colorado and it snowed a few inches just yesterday. I drove to the store and experienced zero slipping or sliding. In addition, I have about 12,000 miles on the Toyos and really no signs of wear. I have nothing bad to say about these tires. Enjoy your winter ON the road
I've had mine on for about a year now. No siping. This past winter we had an extremely cold/ice storm first snowfall the about 8-12" of iceball snow. . (as opposed to wet and sticky). The only vehicle to get in and out of the neighboor prior to the being plowed was the LC. Everything else was stuck on the long hill getting out. Constuction worker Pickups, a 4 runner, a hundai Sante Fe etc... I simply drove past them in low range to keep the CDL engaged and drive slowly around them. As far as braking. I test fired the brakes on the way back in to p/u the wife for work, to make sure I could stop. No problem there either. On hard pack snow covered highways they also do just fine.
Hill,
Coming up on a year on my Toyo MTs that I had siped when new. You may have heard that last winter was pretty nasty here in the Denver CO metro area - LOTS of snow. At the time my LX was stock except for the 285 Toyo MTs. It did great in all conditions and did better than my old DD ('99 Dodge Durango) that I still had at the time and which had Yokohama snow tires for winter use. The Durango got stuck several times, the LX never did, even when I thought for sure it would.
For comparison both vehicles are similar in size/weight and the Durango had a full time transfer case option that made it similar to the LX in function. I didn't have a CDL button on the LX at the time and ran around is high all the time. Never needed to drop into low or even consider exercising the lockers.
The Toyos performed great in the deep stuff, great in the packed stuff, decent in ice (with the siping despite the fairly hard tread compound), and even trying I had a hard time getting the ABS to kick in when on hard packed snow. The downside is the tires are heavy and expensive but given there performance I have been very happy with them.
Coming up on a year on my Toyo MTs that I had siped when new. You may have heard that last winter was pretty nasty here in the Denver CO metro area - LOTS of snow
. At the time my LX was stock except for the 285 Toyo MTs. It did great in all conditions and did better than my old DD ('99 Dodge Durango) that I still had at the time and which had Yokohama snow tires for winter use. The Durango got stuck several times, the LX never did, even when I thought for sure it would.For comparison both vehicles are similar in size/weight and the Durango had a full time transfer case option that made it similar to the LX in function. I didn't have a CDL button on the LX at the time and ran around is high all the time. Never needed to drop into low or even consider exercising the lockers.
The Toyos performed great in the deep stuff, great in the packed stuff, decent in ice (with the siping despite the fairly hard tread compound), and even trying I had a hard time getting the ABS to kick in when on hard packed snow. The downside is the tires are heavy and expensive but given there performance I have been very happy with them.
No expirience with the Toyo's... But, I've never known a MT that didn't benifit substantialy from beeing siped. Huge improvment on slck roads.
