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Originally Posted by hoppyjr
That’s missing some context ^
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Originally Posted by hoppyjr
If you’re sticking to highways and well maintained dirt/gravel roads, P-Metric tires will be just fine.
If you’re venturing off-road or desire stronger sidewalls for added puncture protection, then look at LT’s.
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Your post is just as lacking in context.
Again, I've posted a link to that long running thread here of owners offroading, often very heavily, on P-metric tires (usually A/Ts and M/Ts).
10% of respondents in that thread that have offroaded their 4Runners on P-metrics had tire failures at some point. 90% did not.
Whether to go with LT's offroading in one's relatively lightweight 4Runner is a personal call. It is by no means required, and it is far from a guarantee that you will just pop a good P-metric A/T or M/T offroading. A guy on that thread had done 5,000 heavy offroading miles on his P-metrics, nothing but smiles. Perhaps the most important question discussed in that thread was how many situations really exist offroad where a P-metric would pop.... where the same tire in an LT
would not. Like others, I would estimate those situations do exist, but are few and far between.
Companies like Falken have explicitly stated that the puncture protection of their P-metric Wildpeak is EQUAL to that of the LT Wildpeak--the LTs are for heavy high load vehicles, not for extra pointy rock protection. Good enough for me, I'm willing to believe what the manufacturer says.