Toyo Open Country M/T LT265/75R16 on highway

Thanks Mick

The Toyos look to be the go. There is so much mud and slush around I need to lock the hubs to get into my yard - true. The long drought is over.

Never really occurred to me to look at M/Ts without a second set of ATs until today. Time to chase up prices and get some fitted.

I like the picture of your rig. Looks a very well researched and executed vehicle.

Flynnie

Steve

Thanks for the reply. Good that you could recognise your own tyres! It took a while but I eventually got around to checking out the "good gear" photos collected during my travels.

I had one puncture and that was self inflicted but that's another story. There were an awful lot of near misses which could easily have been staked tyres, if luck was not on my side.

Flynnie

About 45,000k

Err I've still got my Alloys with the standard tyres but I rekon I'll leave them in the shed.

Cheers Mick

You have made a valid point Robin.

While I am pretty sure I will get some Toyo MTs soon it is likely I will hedge my bets and finish up with two sets of wheels and tyres. I am baulking a little at the cost of six MTs and using them as the only set of tyres. I do a lot of highway driving and encounter ice from time to time so highway performance has to be good.

Presently have six wheels and I could get two more. I have been wondering if when running ATs the MTs could be an acceptable spare if both types were 265/75. And likewise when running MTs would the ATs be an acceptable spare. That way I could get by with eight wheels and tyres of which up to six could be on the vehicle when touring. I really don't want to go to ten or twelve wheels and tyres and have two completely separate sets. Faced with that I would just get six BFG ATs and accept their limitations (and strengths).

Flynnie

Sooo...Flynnie, what did you get in the end??

Brenton

Brenton

Still a work in progress.

I am getting four of the Toyo M/T LT265/75R16 tyres before long. Am waiting on the preferred tyre place to get back to me. They were in process of opening a Toyo account. The time has got away a bit and I will have to chase them up. Have been distracted by rear brake failure and the rebuilding of same. If they can't supply I will try someone else.

Earlier I was considering getting two more Toyota wheels and setting up four AT and four MT wheels. This is not going to happen as the quote of $1,045 each for a wheel is far too high. I should have got three extra wheels with the original cruiser purchase instead of one as the price then was much more reasonable.

I will get the Toyo M/Ts and see how they go on the highway. If OK I will get two more. If they have too many compromises for highway use I will have to think about some after market wheels running AT tyres.

I expect the Toyo M/Ts will be OK. Most of the cruiser traybacks in the local area have M/T tyres so I don't think I will go far wrong.

I will post an update after they are fitted.

Flynnie

So just as a matter of interest what sort of price are these in Oz.

I just priced them here in San Diego and they are USD $276.00 each, $15.00 fitting and balancing and 8.75% local sales tax making them around $316.00 each

with current exchange rate it would be about AUD $330.00

How does this compare.

Thanks

Bruce

Bruce

I was quoted about AUD $435 at one place. I am hoping to get a better price than that, around the AUD $400.

Flynnie

Well after a lot of twists and turns I have ordered six new tyres. They are Bridgestone D694 LT 265/75R16 123 R. The Toyo M/Ts will have to wait for another time and another set of rims.

How did I come to this point, more or less opposite where I started?

Preferred local tyre place was still negotiating with Toyo for a dealership. Sorry mate but I got to get something. Toyo lists three dealers in town. The first was a no go because of a rather offhand attitude and a rather expensive quote. Also tried to push a different tyre on me. The second had closed down. The third I visited and was told they had never sold a Toyo tyre but that a rep visited once. Undeterred I called in at a dealer in the next town when passing through. This was better. There were Toyo signs on display and there was an AT Toyo tyre in the showroom. He quoted a price a bit higher than I was after but still within the range of how far I was prepared to go - $415 each. He tried to interest me in another brand of tyre but in fairness I think this was just to give me a cheaper option. I came close to ordering the Toyos but not quite close enough.

While all this was going on I was doing more fact finding and coming to the view that I could not meet my needs adequately with M/Ts only and would need to run an A/T type tyre much of the time. Did not Robin Miller say that? The local blokes are running M/Ts on their cruisers but their driving mix is a lot different to mine. They do a lot of paddock work and occasional trip to town and I do the opposite. Also I got to think there was merit in going for a tyre with a lot of dealers.

So it is a tyre better suited to wet weather highway use that I am getting now. The Toyo M/Ts will have to wait until preparations are made for another big desert trip.

After all this I probably finished up getting the same tyres as if I had just gone into Bob Janes and said "I want some tyres at a good price" and been happy with what I got.

Flynnie