Tire Pressure

Hello, I have a 2015 Tacoma Limited. I noticed that the dealer I bought it from put a 65 size sidewall tire on it when it's supposed to be a 60. I know the factory spec for the tire pressure is 29psi. But since of the bigger sidewall, I'm curious to hear the thoughts of others that have bigger tires on their tacomas. I have only had my tacoma for at the most 3 months. So, any tips that you guys can give me on these trucks would be awesome. Thanks.

 

Most everyone will say to do a chalk test to get proper tire pressure.

 

Cool, I may do that. Thanks. I'm all about proper specs.

 

31 front 33 rear is what run. 265/70/16

 

On a truck?

Did you chalk test it?

Usually running higher in the rear when not towing or hauling makes it really tail happy especially in the rain.

I chalked mine and run 33 front 30 rear cold.

 

There's literally a dumpster fire thread going on as we speak about tire pressure.

Do a chalk test, everyone will have varying pressures even with the same vehicle and tire size.

Load/weight will vary as some people carry stuff whereas others don't.

 

Going up in size shouldn’t really matter on the psi. Should be the same

 

I read all of you guys comments. I've never heard of a chalk test since of me always running factory size tires. Did a Google search, looked it up on YouTube as well. Was very easy. My truck likes 35psi in the front, 34psi in the rear. Thanks for all of your input.

 

I've pretty much always run 35 in front and 32 in back unless I'm going to haul something. Then I'll air up the back ones a bit.

 

Cool. I mow for a living. So, I tow a 6x12 enclosed trailer at least twice a week. With everything in it, it's 2,750lbs. My taco laughs at it. These are one heck of a truck. I lock my trans in 4th gear to keep it from hunting and heating the trans up. I've been taught to never use overdrive because of that reason.

 

Nope, I didn’t do anything scientific.
I tow quite frequently, and that’s the numbers I felt/looked right.

My last set of Hankook DynaPro AT/M tires lasted over 70k at those pressures.
They don’t make the AT/M in that size any more. So I got the AT2, which looks identical but some how gets the snowflake rating, where the AT/M doesn’t Yet they look identical

 

Compound, I'm betting your new tires have more silica content and are softer and thus you probably won't get 70k out of them. Wouldn't surprise me if they're using the exact same molds to make them, economy of scale and all that.

Towing, that makes sense you'ed have a little more in the rear, empty though leads to some...
Interested handling characteristics.

 

I’m a fully open diff with no traction control.
I can 100% say, tires and pressure make a huge difference.

I guess we all get used to driving the same thing all the time.
I suppose if someone else drove my truck, they might have an issue.
I’ve been driving my truck for 13 years now. So maybe I’m used to it?