35" Tire Impact - Heat and MPG

Mods need to put a filter in that automatically deletes anything Tacomadouche related.
Everything they do is for clicks to drive their drop shipping online flea market. Stop feeding into it.

 

hmm... wonder if those clowns pushing rocks off cliffs last week are related to these clowns?

 

That was awful.

 

At 80mph indicated, it shows 87mph on my Google maps GPS.

92mph indicated to show 100mph on GPS.

That's with Toyos 35/12.5/17.

 

I bout both my 2nd Gen TRD Sport Package #2 and my 3rd Gen TRD Sport brand new. Off the show room floor. I ran 3 GPS Speedometers simultaneously. In Both cases with the brand new stock wheels and tires, when the truck odometer read 75MPH I was actually going about 63.5MPH. So I would bet that has something to do with Toyotas over estimated MPG on every generation of Tacoma.

I don't drive like granny by any means, but I've never gotten more than 16-17 MPG on any brand new Tacoma.

In Both cases after putting 35's and regearing g im getting about 12-14MPG which isn't bad.

I don't have a 4th gen to add to the collection yet ( I learned my lesson on the 2nd gens, NEVER buy one of the very first produced trucks of a new model to be produced!) but I will bet dollars to donuts the MPG trend will be the same. Originally inflated, but with gearing you won't loose too much going to 35's since the MPG suck anyway .

Good luck to the 4th gen guys I'll be monitoring the progression of the 4th gen to see if and when I'll pick one up.

 

Stock oem specs you’re saying the speedometer was off over 10mph at 75?!!! That seems like a major flaw.

 

I call shenanigans on that. All of my Toyotas have been off by about 2 mph at 70.

No way any manufacturer has a speedo with 20% error.

 

man said 15mpg and that he misses 4.0

 

I agree. In that vain, are there gear sets available for the 4th Gen yet? What ratios? I believe the 4th Gen has 3.42’s stock?

 

The miles traveled on the odometer with larger diameter tires will be inaccurate. You are actually traveling further than shown on the odometer.

A simple test using a GPS vs odometer on a 50 or 100 mile straight line drive will confirm this.

My 265/75-16 tires increased the distance traveled from the odometer results by 2.9%. If the odometer read 100 miles, the GPS indicated actual miles traveled as 102.9 miles. Confirmed with muliple tests.

 

The only way they can ever recover from this is to go out of their way to aid in conservation efforts. As far as I know, they are just hoping people forget about it.

 

315 70 r17 on 17x8.5” foxtrot wheels +35 offset. Zero modifications on an SR! 34.4” clears everything.

 

I have 35’s on my 2.5 gen Tundra with 5:29 re-gear with lockers. It gets 11MPG city it sure is a lot faster city driving re-geared maybe 18MPG highway. The trans temp is lower and overall it has way more torque. But I've driven the new gen4 taco and its more powerful way more linear power. Kinda of made me hate my tundra on my camping trip right after driving the new Taco.