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Aug 25, 2025, 3:34 PM
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Gentlemen,
My wife's 4Runner is getting to the point where new tires are needed. I'm not the most vehicle-savvy person, so I was reading a little online. It looks like when we bought the 4Runner, dealers in the SouthEast were rebranding the SR5 as an XP and adding Nitto Grappler G2 tires for, what I assume, is an offroad capable vehicle. However, ours is only 2WD. We grabbed it because it was right at the beginning of the car shortage and it had a 3rd row.
So the existing tire is a Nitto A/T Terra Grappler G2 275/55R20
I should just replace this with a Michelin or Goodyear or something for a daily driver around town (soccermom type shidd) with a 20" rim, right? Do I have to stick with only 275/55R20 tires?
Thanks for your assistance and please feel free to make me feel stupid. It works all the time.
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275 is width
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:37 PM
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55 is from rim to road
You could go to 60 or 65 i believe
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But I gotta maintain that width, right? Cause that is based off the wheel. So
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:40 PM
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I can look for 275/60R20 possibly. I don't think it makes a big difference, to be honest, just trying to get one that works for wife for a couple years then daughter for the rest of that cars life (or until we have to replace again)
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Yeah, i would maintain width
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:51 PM
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Youll hardly notice the difference between 55 and 60.
Agree with below about less aggressive tread
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Re: Tires dot net
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:39 PM
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Don’t feel dumb. I just go to my local trusted family owned tire place and they give me 3 options, expensive, outrageous, and bend over we’re coming in with sand and no lube.
Had to do this this afternoon in fact
I ask if the lowest one is an ok tire, she says it’s what I have on my car so I say let’s do it and I’ll take the tires too.
Not really, she could kick my ### 5 ways to Sunday but I did think it.
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Whadya get and how bad did it hurt going in?***
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:42 PM
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Some off brand that is made in a Michelin plant
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:48 PM
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$145 per tire but these are going on a Honda insight so all 4 tires probably smaller than one of yours
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It's got SONY guts***
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:50 PM
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I'd put Michelin Defenders on it and forget about AT tires.
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:39 PM
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I mean its 2wd. Why bother with that noise and harshness?
Changing out my 4runners Michelin Defenders this week. They are 7 years old, and dry rotting. The tread depth looks like they have about 30K miles left on them. I mean, if they weren't cracking.
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Her car has always been loud AF to me, and rode a little rough, but it wasn't
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:42 PM
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mine so I just chalked it up to 4Runner being a 4Runner.
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Part 4Runner, part loud AF tires.***
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:43 PM
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i concur with this statement***
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:49 PM
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So $300/tire plus installation, balance, etc is going to come out to
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:43 PM
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$1500?
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prob closer to $1400
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:51 PM
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I looked up the receipt from when I bought these defenders in 2018..and they were $1,000 then, which is about $1285 now. So they haven't gone up a whole lot over 7 years.
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I just bought the same size tires for F150 in May and I got
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:48 PM
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Pirelli Scorpion All-Terrain Plus - 275/55R20 AT+ 113T Tire
They were about $900 installed from Sam's.
Current best price is about $205/ea from Walmarts. Alternatively, you could trade it in for a new vehicle with new tires for slightly more dollars.
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Trade it in?
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:52 PM
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You sound like my wife.
This one is going to the kids when they get to drive, spoiled ass little shits.
My first car was a '73 VW Beetle, when that wasn't cool at all.
Wife's first car was an '89 Honda Accord with one light stuck up, a leaky sunroof, and a busted radiator. My buddies in auto mechanics class learned alot about fixing cars from her, she would drive to school and take it straight to the garage.
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You don't need AT's for a 2wd. I have BFG KO3's on the hunting truck
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Aug 25, 2025, 3:59 PM
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my dad is wanting a set for his 4wd every day truck. Trying to talk him into the BFG AT's
There's just nobody close to the quality and durability of BFG.
And yes Nittos are loud no matter what kind of tire you buy
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I've never seen a set of BFG balance. Seems like they always have a ton of
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Aug 25, 2025, 4:08 PM
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weight on them, and the few pair I have owned always vibrated.
I'm not the only one:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s1_Sh_QbMrI
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Mine are balanced. No issues. But I also don't lease my vehicle***
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Aug 25, 2025, 4:11 PM
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That old POS truck probably vibrates so bad from everything else
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Aug 25, 2025, 4:16 PM
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being wore out and loud you wouldn't know if they weren't balanced.
My biggest question about you and your truck is which version of flowmasters did you install?
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You don't install loud pipes on a hunting truck
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Aug 25, 2025, 4:27 PM
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everyone knows that
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sure
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Aug 25, 2025, 4:30 PM
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I bet you can hear that thing before you can see it
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My 2024 Raptor has metric equivalent of 35s on it...
Aug 25, 2025, 7:21 PM
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Been up to 100mph in it without issue.
Never had an issue with BFG ATs or MTs. Hoping the KO3 C comes out before these tires wear out.
The load rating makes a big difference on how well they balance.
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It's what I do
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Aug 25, 2025, 4:28 PM
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4th vote for Michelin Defenders
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Aug 25, 2025, 4:50 PM
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check Costco for prices also.
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Re: Tires dot net
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Aug 25, 2025, 5:06 PM
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Any Labor day deals out there?
Sears I've had succes with taking out there CC, online discounts, etc... to basically buying whole set of tires cheaper than employees discounts in the past.
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