What Type of Tires On Your 4Runner?

[Jeff Kleb]

Chalk this up as another 'curiosity' thread. What kind of tires do you have on your 4Runner? Are they the ones that came with it? If not, what did come as original equipment?

Mine has the factory-mounted 17" Bridgestone Dueler H/T - kind of an year-round/all-season tire with a tread pattern that is not very aggressive at all. Since I do 99.9% of my driving on the paved highway, that is just fine with me.


How many miles can I expect to get out of them if I rotate them and keep my inflation up to snuff? I leased the vehicle for 36,000 miles, so I assume they'll last at least that long.
:awais:

 

[greasefingers]

I am runnin factory installed bald Dunlop

 

[Mark86]

I originally had a 2003 4Runner Sport that came with Dunlop Grandtrek's. Those lasted for 17,000 miles so I switched over to Revos. When I got my 2005 Limited, it had Bridgestone Duelers. I wasn't giving up my 4 month old Revos at the time so I had the dealer switch tires. In the end, I have Revos on my truck.

 

[BlkSS1755]

had the GrandTrek's but switched them out at 8000 miles to 265/70 Revos :bigok:

 

[tkr128]

Mine originally came with 16" Bridgestone Dueler HT 840's. I swapped them out after 16k miles for 17's with Michelin Cross Terrains. My uncle's came with the Dunlop Grandtrek AT20's.

The Duelers are okay in my opinion. When I took them off at 16k miles, they still had about 70% of the tread left.

 

[Northof49]

Stock Michelin Cross Terrains on mine.....seem to do just fine for an all-around tire. Probably the best OEM tire I've had on a truck/SUV actually.

 

[AlexJet]

My Limited came with 265/65R17 Dunlops. 8k on them, then they gone to the friends used car dealership. I got 265/70R17 Revos, 12k right now on Revos. Looking to get 275/70R17 MT/R + Baja for off-roading.

 

[thebert]

my sport came with the afore mentioned grandtrek's. I replaced them @ 13k miles with kumho venture 825 at, 265/70/17. I have put 2500 miles on the kumho's so far. The grandtreks were terrible in the snow with the vsc constantly kicking in regardless of how I drove it. The kumho's are a vast improvement over the dunlops. The first thing I noticed was the vastly improved steering response. The dunlops tended to float alot and the steering response was vague at best. The dunlops had a vibration @ highway speed. I now have to try to get the vsc to kick in with these new tires. I have had the kumho's in 6 inches of hard packed snow with no problems at all. I wouldn't have even dared with the dunlops. The only downside to the kumho's is that they omit an audible hum @ highway speeds. I picked them up for $525 for 5 tires at discount tire. That included a credit for my dunlops. I think they're an affordable alternative to the revos.

 

[TechWrench]

OEM 265/65-17 Dueler H/Ts in summer.

275/70-16 Dueler REVOs in winter.

Both sets do the job they were designed for.

 

[Solice]

Mine came with the Dunflop At20's. Just traded 'em out for the 265/70/17 Revos at 25,000 miles ---> Happier then ever!

 

[kimboy]

I switched my Grandtrek AT20's out at 36K miles for TRD 18" (rebadged BBS) rims w/ michelin X-terrains. My stock rims/tires now take up a large area in the garage.

Where does everybody keep their extra set of wheels?

Oh and the 18" Michelin X-Terrains are much cheaper than the 17" X-terrains. At $123 on tirerack for the 18's who would have thunk it.

 

[Koz]

I have 13K on the H/Ts and have plenty left, they do a good job. I have only had them in a couple inches of snow and an ice storm so far and they did very well. I hear that we should get a couple big storms this year (speculation), so we'll see. I was hoping they were bad so I could justify a set of REVOs but again, they're pretty good.

Koz

 

[HuntRunner]

Truck came with the 265/65/17 Dunlop AT20's, changed to 265/70/17 Nitto Terra Grapplers at 46K. So far so good....

 

[sharp4runr]

I'm still running the stock dunlops and I'm at 246xxmiles. I haven't had to drive in any crazy snow this year so hopefully the Dunlops can last for another season before I upgrade. The tires have been rotated at the dealership every 5K and the tread still looks good.

 

[AlexJet]

OEM 265/65-17 Dueler H/Ts in summer.

275/70-16 Dueler REVOs in winter.

Both sets do the job they were designed for.

Steel 16" OEM Toyota rims for 4Runner? Where did you get them from? How are they looks like? I never saw those rims in my city. Could you post some pictures of those rims? I'd also appreciate if you can tell the rim specifications like backspacing, offset...

 

[TechWrench]

Steel 16" OEM Toyota rims for 4Runner? Where did you get them from? How are they looks like? I never saw those rims in my city. Could you post some pictures of those rims? I'd also appreciate if you can tell the rim specifications like backspacing, offset...

I picked them up from a site, Hubcaps Wheels and Covers.

http://www.hubcaps-wheelcovers.com/photo/to24run03.JPG

They are the OEM 16" steel wheels for the 4Runner. Most people haven't seen them because the alloy wheels were installed on just about all 4Runners ordered as a dealer option. As I understand it from the site, these wheels were removed from the new vehicles at the port of entry when the alloys were installed as a port option. Toyota sold off the take-off wheels to places like this. I got mine in September '04. At that time they were $50.00 a piece, shipping included, and a set of center hub covers was an additional $50.00. At that time, I was quoted $175.00 per wheel from my local dealer for them. Mine arrived in good shape, and they fit with the REVOs just fine, no clearance problems. They don't look too bad for steel wheels. I don't know the specific specs on them, maybe it is in the manuals.

 

[TechWrench]

I switched my Grandtrek AT20's out at 36K miles for TRD 18" (rebadged BBS) rims w/ michelin X-terrains. My stock rims/tires now take up a large area in the garage.

Where does everybody keep their extra set of wheels?

Oh and the 18" Michelin X-Terrains are much cheaper than the 17" X-terrains. At $123 on tirerack for the 18's who would have thunk it.

I have had two sets of wheels/tires for my 4WD rides for years, so I built a hanging rack in my shed to store the spare set during the off season. Basically it just a piece of 2" pipe suspended from the ceiling with chain, and backspaced from the wall with several 'T' connections. This gets the tires off the floor and allows floor storage below. Sorta 'redneckish' but it works.

 

[charlier180]

OEM 265/65-17 Dueler H/Ts in Spring/Summer/Fall.

245/75-16 Blizzak ZM3s in Winter.

FYI, my Blizzaks are mounted on steel, 16 inch, OEM Tundra wheels with hub caps.
They look pretty good on the 4Runner and best of all were only $36 each, including shipping from a Tundra Owner looking to upgrade.

 

[spyne]

32K on the stock Michelin X Terrains. From the way they look I'll get another 25-30K out of them before I have to replace. I rotate them every 5K in a 5 wheel pattern.

 

[Gromulus]

Cross-Terrains

32K on the stock Michelin X Terrains. From the way they look I'll get another 25-30K out of them before I have to replace. I rotate them every 5K in a 5 wheel pattern.

Ditto. OEM Cross-Terrains with 37K on them. I agree that they could probaby go another 30K easily.

I am torn on my next tires. I would like the Revos' for even better foul-weather traction and for backwoods camping excursions, but I have a 40 mile commute each way 35 miles of which is highway and the Michelins really are smooth and quiet.