Toyo a30s

My 2018 Sport came with the Toyo's. After about 3000 miles, I'd say they're okay. They've handled heavy rain and a little bit of gravel. No mud or snow yet, but it's coming!

 

OEM tires like the A20 and A30 do well the first winter, but they are made of a hard compound that lasts a long time, but eventually performs poorly in the winter, especially as they wear. All depends on how severe your winter is. We've already had 40cm it's stupid.

We here at Tacoworld encourage everyone to buy meaty tires anyway!

 

Those tires will be terrible in the mud & pack immediately. Also spin pretty easy on wet pavement so I can only guess what they are like on snow & ice. Only good for mpg!

 

just ditched the Toyo's and snagged a set of take off Goodyear Kevlars and wheels from a TRD OR. HUGE improvement in ride quality and driving in the rain/gravel (I live in the country)

I did okay my first winter with the Toyo's but i felt the tires overall were lacking. My advice is simple.

If you want new tires, its typically cheaper to buy take offs from another Taco. I spent 700 on wheels and tires TOTAL with only 700 miles on them. Ive seen TRD OR wheels with new Goodyears for as low as 500 on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist

Though you could go with the peoples tire (K02s or the Falcon Wildpeak)

 

These are not good tires in the wet, esp on paint lines and tar snakes. Snow wasn't too bad, but could have been better.

I am too cheap to replace them early though. I drive more cautiously in the rain with them than I like to.

 

This is my 1st Toyota, but my 6th or 7th 4x4. I've noticed that the factory supplied tires have-in my opinion-been getting worse & worse. My suspicion is that the engineers are driven by the mpg standards and are not daily truck drivers.

 

It could also be that cars / trucks are getting better and better and sucky OEM-spec'ed tires are staying the same?

I have never bought the same OEM tires for many reasons.

 

This is my first Toyota, but I've been driving 4x4 since the 1970's. My sense is that the factory supplied tires, driven by cost & government standards, have been getting worse for actual 4x4 use. It's not just the tires either. My '14 Silverado was not nearly the quality of its predecessor-an '09. Obviously the engineers don't drive trucks on a daily basis!

 

This is our first 4x4, truck, and Toyota. I hit the trifecta there. The tires seemed to work well enough offroad. I did get stuck in heavy slush in April, but so did the stock OR and the modded Jeep that was along also. We were able to work ourselves out (CC / MTS on the OR was pretty cool) but did turn back at that point. Some bigger builds went past us and turned back not long after. I think only chains would have helped us. Other than that, I haven't found them lacking except on wet roads.

My goal for the next set will be better wet traction, probably going with the Wildpeaks or Geolandar A/Ts?

I'm also thinking about mounting my own. I've spooned my own motorcycle tires for the past 12yrs. I just need to figure out what needs to be checked with the TPMS. Just a battery swap?