Anyone worn out their factory 245/75-16s yet?

:shrug: My neighbor got 50k out of his stock Michelin tires on his Sport. Granted mostly highway miles.

 

Yeah, I corrected that in post #32 after I measured my Hankook spare. Toyos also have 10/32"/

 

Wheels and tires were the first to go off the truck. They are fine for street use but Toyota should have opted for different tires for 4x4's.

 

I just changed my OEM Goodyears on the TRDOR at 65,000 miles/23 months. They were at about 4/32.

 

Wow, that’s some driving. I got about 55k out of my oem tires on my FJ. Put some GY silent armours in it and got about 90k out of them. Seriously. Then put some duratracs on at ~150k and sold it at 190k. Still had plenty of tread but had gotten fairly loud.

I have the stock GY on my OR, torn between hoping I get great miles out of them and hoping they wear down so I can replace them.

 

Well the hankooks are done. 12800 miles. County just graded my road and I knew it was likely I'd cut a tire. 4/32" tread left. A rock broke the belts all the way across the tread on the right rear and it was flat this morning.

I had bought some new take off SR5 alloys with new oem toyos on them for $400 awhile back and swapped them out today using proper mag lugnuts.
I have the hankooks on the steelies in the garage and will run them out when the toyos start getting cut. This is why I buy Michelins. They will wear all the way out w/o getting cut up at 1/2 tread. Arkansas flint dont screw around with shitty tires.

I'd rate the factory hankooks lower than the cheapest tire I've ever run--walmart liberators.

ETA: Not sure how much 6/32" of tread weighs but the worn hankooks on steel wheels and the new toyos on alloys weighed exactly the same on my digital scale. 59lbs give or take an oz or so. Factory SR5 alloy wheels must be nearly as heavy as the steelies.

 

are you getting the TPMS reprogrammed to work, im looking to do the same with my 2nd gen I seen a set on craigslist minus the TPMS sensors,i would probably just use them without the sensors till I can get the dash light out, the state I live in you don't need them by law as far as I know

 

The wheels I bought had had the tpms robbed and I just pulled some regular stems thru. When I had my last flat I threw one of the alloys on w/o tpms. My flat with tpms was in the garage when I drove to work. My low tire light didn't light up until I was at work. Would have been 25mins/16miles on a flat. I'll deal with the light over a marginally useful feature.

 

OEM tires are built with softer rubber compounds, makes for a better test drive and new car ride.

 

black tape over the tpms light mod,

 

I build tires, the process never changes, only the compounds of the rubber between different tires. Our OE tires are built the same way, with the same same components as the replacement tires. Nothing changes. They don’t change specs of the tire just because one is sold to an OE and another to a wholesaler for retail. If it’s the exact same brand/line of tire it’s the exact same components

 

Really, I have been told a couple times that softer compounds are used for new vehicle tires. I have always been surprised with this.

 

Have almost 27k on mine and still about 10-15k more tread left, Firestone’s on mine..

 

I bought one set of used retreads years ago for snow tires in the north..and they lasted a couple years before I got rid of the truck.

 

Most tires now adays are made with softer compounds, for smoother and quieter rides, unfortunately what’s sacrificed is the lifespan. However more and more people lease vehicles now. Most leases are 20-30k so the demand is down for long lasting tires. Most people want a nice smooth ride and better gas mileage. So that’s really where most of the aim is with today’s tires. I don’t even think legally you can have 2 “identical” tires be completely different compounds and built to different specs. Not without Atleast having different DOT numbers. As far as I know the only time a tire we build would have different compounds is when we build experimental tires. Basically they change the chemical make up of the specs and componets. The same build process is used. After testing they decide to engineer a special mold for a certain engineered mold design but during the first stages of testing they run them with a somewhat like tire just to collect data for their testing purposes

 

Well, I have about 16,000miles on the Toyos and they are at 4/32". I found a set of new Firestone take offs on factory steel wheels on CL for $400. I'm thinking of going this way instead of Michelins as the Defenders on my wife's car only went ~25,000miles. Discount tire pro-rated them out due to early wear out.

I think I'm just not going to get good wear out of anything running 15-25 miles a week on my flint road. *sigh*

 

With primarily paved road miles (I live in town, it’s a lot of paved road to the dirt I need the taco for) I got ~50k out of the stock Hankook’s on my SR. That said, if you live on a dirt road, I could absolutely see them going sooner than that. Actually on a second set of Hankooks that I bought near-new off someone on here.

 

What's crazy about it is they don't have any big chunks missing and don't look chewed. I guess the flint just erodes the tread away. Probably doesn't help that I don't exactly drive slow.

 

i went the opposite my DUNLOPS got finally toasted so I bought a set of used TOYOs off craigslist and didn't get new Defenders, so far im liking the TOYOs

 

I'm getting to be a cheap bastid WRT tires. If they aren't going to last more than a couple years out here anyway, why bother buying something expensive? Even been kicking around looking at cheaper ones from lesser known mfgs like Lionhart.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Lionhart...-Truck-A-S-Tire/312727023263?_trkparms=ispr=1