The SKINNY on skinny tires

The limiting factor for both is the tire circumference as that is static and the sidewall height which is also static both being equal between those two tires. The only difference is the tread width. The only difference is the wider tire has an overall larger footprint.

What psi are you thinking cuz I’m thinking 0-4 psi but maybe I’m missing something at like 10psi

 

Do you, we can agree to disagee. Just don't look at skinny wheeled tractors your brain might blow

 

Tractors make sense because they are 6’ tall and slow haha. We have to use wheel spin because if we sink to low our axles get buried and we are done.

 

By swap tires, do you mean put wider tires on? If so, I think they probably optimized their tire size for their conditions, much like the tires used in the Arctic, on rock buggies, in the Baja 1000, and any other type of competition. Those aren't good examples to use for narrow versus wide. For most of us, a narrow tire will outperform a wide tire in most offroad situations we encounter.

And Ronny Dahl wheels in Australia; a place where you can see sand, silt, mud, and rocky terrain in one day. Not too many places around here like that. Maybe he runs 12.5 because he likes the way it looks on his rig.

 

Come out to Colorado. We have all of that in one day!!

 

You have beaches in Colorado?





Actually, I'd love to come out to Colorado.

 

We do actually. Lakes with beaches. There is a big reservoir near Gunnison where lots of people drive down to fish or drop kayaks. Otherise the closest thing to sand and silt is washed out roads and trails from flash floods and the great sand dunes.

If you ever are let me know and we can hit the trails.

 

I've been to six of the seven continents on the world, the most universal vehicle I see offroading for a living is either the Toyota land cruiser or the Land / Range rover and all seem to run a stock or skinny tire.

These guys get by just fine without wide tires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-QfG6hwRf4

The only fat tire vehicles I've seen are the trucks built to emulate American style.

 

can anyone suggest some 15" skinnys? im going to start DD my truck and want to change tires. i currently run 33x12.5x15 KM2s. id like an AT with a similar diameter or maybe down to 32". i want a lighter yet still aggressive looking tire. thanks for any suggestions.

 

A 32" skinny on a 15" is pretty rare. I can only find one 32x10.5. You can get 32x11.5. If you want skinnier, you have to go 31 or 33. You get a few more sub-11" choices for a 16" rim.

Check out

 

@TacoSauce04 - You can also do the 13WL/13WG brake upgrade with a 16" rim. Having done the upgrade myself, I highly recommend it, especially for double cabs. Huge difference over the stock brakes.

 

thanks for the link.
i found some 33x10.5x15 that are prob the closest to what i want. i think...

Ko2 @52lbs and Grabber @53lbs.

 

around how much does the brake upgrade run? are there complete kits available or do you have to piece it all together?

 

pretty damn close to actual skinny dims

 

You can go either way. I pieced mine together with take-offs from a 2nd gen Tacoma (13WG) for free from a couple local TW members. Picked up some EBC rotors, green stuff pads and extended steel brake lines. Also bought a caliper seal kit for about $10.

 

Likewise but the bulk of those vehicles aren’t even really used offroad. They just have shitty dirt roads. Our land cruisers in Africa had skinny tires but we cruised on hard pack dirt with almost no rocks. The same roads their minivans were driving. That said Africa had 3 levels of income, those with wood shacks, then metal shacks, and of you were rich you had cement block.

Very few countries have both the freedom of public lands and have the expendable income to build dedicated offroad vehicles. Australia and the US seem to be the few who have purpose built offroad vehicles.

As long as you know the limits of your vehicle you will be fine and honestly a stock tire will work for most people.

I’ve taken stock tires up class 5 trails, the same trails purpose built Jeeps were running 35+ Doesn’t mean my tire was better, just means it worked for that trail.

 

All your posts have been negative in this thread. Did you come here for a reason, or just to troll?

 

Just because they disagree or call out fallacies doesn’t directly mean they are negative. I can’t control how you read them.

 

33x10.5x15 is definitely in the skinny class. For 15s, it's either that or a 31x10.5. That's why I mentioned maybe bumping up to a 16" rim if you wanted something close to a 32, which seems to be the odd man out for off road tires.

 

It varies. I'm in for about $285.

• EBC brake kit (rotors and pads) - $147.50 (now $198; you can find cheaper kits with different pads)
• Toyota OEM "caliper overhaul kit" - $16.98 (now $19.98)
• $21 POR-15 High Temperature Brake Caliper Paint, Heat Resistant Coating, 8 Fluid Ounces, Silver
  POR caliper paint - ~$14
• (F&R) - ~$107 (there are cheaper options)
• 13WG calipers - free

Callahan has a rebuilt 13WL kit on feeBay for $266.79.