255/85 or 285/75 ?

I just got the TSB done on my 2009! Next I am going to add some 5100s @ 2.5" and either a block or AAL for the rear if needed. I will be running stock TRD OR wheels for a year or two, but buying some new KM2s right after I lift it. Most of my off-roading is done on muddy hunting club roads, and not much else. In fact, I'm able to go everywhere I need to in stock form, so most of this is for looks anyway. I like the beefier look of the 285s, but I think they may look squeezed on the stock 7" wheel. I'm also wondering if there is any real difference in the amount of trimming that will be required between the two? I do realize that I will need spacers for the 285s. And of course if you have photos of your rig with either, please reply.

Thanks.

 

I want the tall skinny pizza cutter km's or km2's baad. From what I've read less trimming with the narrower tires. Was it difficult getting the tsb on your 09? I mean did they give you a hard time?

 

Surprisingly not. I printed it out from here and brought it with me. I explained the problem and that I had the same part number springs covered by the TSB. They gave it to a supervisor and called me a couple days later to say the parts were in and to bring it in for service.

 

They are available as special order through Sams for less than Tirerack or Discount Tire Direct...

 

Eh, I don't agree. Skinny is good for snow, but skinny tires in the mud = sinking deeper into the mud, wider tires lets you float on it a little better.

Same thing on our tractors (live on a farm), you don't take certain tractors in the field when its muddy because the skinny tires just sink.

 

Yea but digging deep = having to sit there cutting just as deep through the mud and push all that mud out of the way which = far more to have to push through than spinning over top and it's also a much bigger chance of getting stuck and you'd better know the mud isn't any deeper than your axle. When you get stuck 99% of the time it's because you're too deep in the mud and can't cut forward through it or get enough traction to get ontop of it. I also don't think there is any good traction even in the bottom because its like slick snot on glass.

Then if your wheels are on the bottom of the mud pit and you hit the edge and it isn't a gradual slope you're gonna be dead it your tracks.

Also even if your tire is going concave (which isn't going to happen much on a good tire) it won't matter much in the mud anyway because the traction isn't on a flat plain, and your sidewalls aren't going to give you much usable traction laying out wide.


I can see why it's an ongoing debate