Decrease in mileage w/ A/T tires?

I'm a bank examiner w/ the federal government, so I'm always driving to banks around the state doing bank exams. 1,000 miles this week

 

It's not that I'm not interested in it, it's just that it doesn't make financial and practical sense to lift and put 35's on a truck that gets driven this much. This has to be my dependable DD...the Mustang is my mod toy.

Thanks for the input everyone! I think I'm going to go with a set of solid H/T or similar tire, like the Michelin MS2 or Grabber HT (or whatever it's called). Although the guy that's getting 80k out of his Michelin A/Ts...that's impressive.

 

I put 5K miles on my bran new truck within 3 months or less, so i drive a lot on mine and as i said previously my mileage has not dropped to much, like everyone else said like 1 or 2

 

Well...I didn't follow my own head, and instead went with my heart. Got some 265/70/17 Wrangler Armortech's put on today. They're supposed to be a quieter, long lasting A/T tire (come with a 60k mile warranty). They're not BFGs or anything, but I still think they look good. $157 a tire. Pic to follow

 

on my first gen reg cab, i dropped about 2mpg (28-26mpg highway) going from the stock dunlops (i think) to General Grabber AT2s

 

SHow us!!!

 

Hmmm ... Worried about MPG? Buy a Honda Civic. Your Tacoma is a sweet truck. Drive it hard and enjoy!!

 

I don’t know what I could have gotten with the Dunlop tires because I replaced them right away. I was running Goodyear Silent Armor (A/T) P rated 245/70R 16’s on stock steel wheels and got 21mpg highway at 70mph. I got an average of 19mpg all around. When I replaced my tires at 50K I went with Goodyear Silent Armor’s again but this time in a load rand E tire – same size. I also installed the 16” OEM alloy wheels at the same time. The lighter wheels must be compensating for the heavier tires because my MPG is the same. In fact I did a 200 mile highway test last week at 63mph with cruise control the entire trip and pulled 24.5MPG during that stretch – I believe that is about the best I could possibly ever get. I normally don’t drive like that.
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look up the weight of your stock tires online and compare it to the weight of whatever tires you want to get.

 

Haven't had a computer all week but I'll get a pic up tonight for you guys! I'm enjoying them but I do think I'll lose a bit. It also seems a tad sluggish but I think that's just in my head.

 

I have the goodyear duratrac on my truck (awesome tire)... i went up a bit on the aspect ratio... I haven't able to get a good reading on these since summer is over. My stock tire in the summer I can get over 400 miles in the tank. I just got these new tires about a month ago... but in the fall and winter, i warm up the truck for 5-7 minutes before I start driving... that has decrease my MPG... so I get like 340 to the tank.
Once winter really sets in here in jersey... about 20 degrees... I warm up the truck for like 15 mins!! I get maybe 280-300 miles on the tank!! Also remember people winter gas gives horrible MPG because they put this additives in the gasoline it will make it easy to start the truck!

 

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I have a "Light AT Tire" ... aka ... Michelin LTX AT2 ... and my mileage is the same or maybe a bit better than the OEM BFGs.

Now, I am running the Michelin LTX AT2s at 36 psi all around and my mileage is up about 1 MPG and I love these tires for their grip too.

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Here's the pic. It's not the best, but you get the idea. And I think I originally called them "Armortech", but they're actually Armortracs. Last tank of gas was back to normal, so it appears that no difference in mileage. Very happy with my decision.

 

I wish it were that easy! MPG does matter in my case unfortunately.