Hi friends,
This is my quick review of the tires since I just put them on today, driven around 100km.
Background story:
I've been driving on stock Yokohamas 285/65/17 for 5 years since 95% of the time I only drive on paved roads. The stock tires were quiet, comfortable and good in the wet (Haven't tried rock crawling nor mudding). After putting on the TJM bullbar, brush bar and 2inch lift the stock tires looked kind of out of place IMO. Here are couple of pictures:
I have old folks who ride with me on long trips so comfort and noise was number 1 priority for me. After researching on this forum (tons of useful information) I've decided to pull the plug.
Tire Spec:
I decided to go with 285/70/17 after reading numerous of posts on here stating thats the tire size Toyota recommends for people running the TRD RWs. In the pictures it seems a lot taller than stock but realisticly its appproximately 1cm taller. These are C rated tires since these are the only version of BFGs they have. Here's a picture compared to stocks:
Comfort:
I have the tires set at 37psi all around and I'm happy to report from my intial drive, the ride was suprisingly not much different than stock. If I had to put a number on it, I'd say it's around 10-15% stiffer. Funny thing, I feel going through speed bumps at higher speed was smoother than stock tires . My old folks probably won't be able to notice any difference. Big thumbs up !
Noise:
The roads are always busy in my country, so it was hard to find a place to test the tire noise. Mostly, I don't hear that much difference, only when slowing down do I hear a little bit of more noise. Mind you, I turned off the AC and radio to test this. In normal driving conditions I probably wouldn't hear any difference. So big thumbs up here also !
Handling:
This is one area that I'd say felt a little off at first (probably just need to get used to it). Our cars have a slight deadzone in the center of the steering wheel (little play before the car changes direction when you turn the steering). The BFGs kind of emphasized this a bit more. Not much but noticable. Most likely it's the weight of the tires, tire pressure kind of low, or because the width of stock rims are smaller than of TRD RWs (can someone confirm this?). Anyways, not an issue for me, its a truck not a sports car so I never expected it to behave like one.
Looks:
This, for me is the biggest reason I upgraded to the BFGs. The sidewalls and the threads just makes it look so aggressive. Also, we have a lot of nails and random debris laying on the road everywhere. These tires, from the looks of it seems to be able to cope with all of that much better than stocks (Had them deflate 6 times due to puncture and 1 blow out on the freeway). Here are pictures after installation, you guys be the judge :
Conclusion:
I'll need to put more miles on these to evaluate them more extensively but from the initial impressions, I wish I had done this long time ago. The ability to off-road with these, the asthetics are much better than stock while the drawbacks aren't even that noticable. I highly recommend these tires to whoever is on the fence about these.
Have a good day everyone!
Duc
This is my quick review of the tires since I just put them on today, driven around 100km.
Background story:
I've been driving on stock Yokohamas 285/65/17 for 5 years since 95% of the time I only drive on paved roads. The stock tires were quiet, comfortable and good in the wet (Haven't tried rock crawling nor mudding). After putting on the TJM bullbar, brush bar and 2inch lift the stock tires looked kind of out of place IMO. Here are couple of pictures:
I have old folks who ride with me on long trips so comfort and noise was number 1 priority for me. After researching on this forum (tons of useful information) I've decided to pull the plug.
Tire Spec:
I decided to go with 285/70/17 after reading numerous of posts on here stating thats the tire size Toyota recommends for people running the TRD RWs. In the pictures it seems a lot taller than stock but realisticly its appproximately 1cm taller. These are C rated tires since these are the only version of BFGs they have. Here's a picture compared to stocks:
Comfort:
I have the tires set at 37psi all around and I'm happy to report from my intial drive, the ride was suprisingly not much different than stock. If I had to put a number on it, I'd say it's around 10-15% stiffer. Funny thing, I feel going through speed bumps at higher speed was smoother than stock tires . My old folks probably won't be able to notice any difference. Big thumbs up !
Noise:
The roads are always busy in my country, so it was hard to find a place to test the tire noise. Mostly, I don't hear that much difference, only when slowing down do I hear a little bit of more noise. Mind you, I turned off the AC and radio to test this. In normal driving conditions I probably wouldn't hear any difference. So big thumbs up here also !
Handling:
This is one area that I'd say felt a little off at first (probably just need to get used to it). Our cars have a slight deadzone in the center of the steering wheel (little play before the car changes direction when you turn the steering). The BFGs kind of emphasized this a bit more. Not much but noticable. Most likely it's the weight of the tires, tire pressure kind of low, or because the width of stock rims are smaller than of TRD RWs (can someone confirm this?). Anyways, not an issue for me, its a truck not a sports car so I never expected it to behave like one.
Looks:
This, for me is the biggest reason I upgraded to the BFGs. The sidewalls and the threads just makes it look so aggressive. Also, we have a lot of nails and random debris laying on the road everywhere. These tires, from the looks of it seems to be able to cope with all of that much better than stocks (Had them deflate 6 times due to puncture and 1 blow out on the freeway). Here are pictures after installation, you guys be the judge :
Conclusion:
I'll need to put more miles on these to evaluate them more extensively but from the initial impressions, I wish I had done this long time ago. The ability to off-road with these, the asthetics are much better than stock while the drawbacks aren't even that noticable. I highly recommend these tires to whoever is on the fence about these.
Have a good day everyone!
Duc
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