My wife's Sequoia needs tires for the first time and, given that this is my our first SUV, I'm quite unfamiliar with tires of this ilk. The OEMs are 265/65/17. I need to replace them, but have no clue what to go with.
Driving habits are 100% on road, with a fair amount of boat towing thrown in. It's a 2WD version as well.
Thoughts, opinions and advice welcome!
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I believe you will have to be looking at truck tires or performance tires at that size, maybe walmart would have some liberator's or general evertreks for you? both good tires
From what little I read about "Highway All Seasons" while looking for tires for the FJ, the Michelin LTXs seem so be a "go to."
The General Grabber HTS is spoken well of as well, as an "inexpensive" alternative.
Osterkraut wrote: From what little I read about "Highway All Seasons" while looking for tires for the FJ, the Michelin LTXs seem so be a "go to." The General Grabber HTS is spoken well of as well, as an "inexpensive" alternative.
Thanks!
A quick Tirerack glance shows the LTX at $200 per tire and the Grabber at $150 per tire. Hard to know if the Michelins are worth $200 more. 
I have LTX m/s tires on my van. The fronts have 30k more miles on them according to all the service reciepts I got from the PO, there is still a ton of tread on them. They seem do well in snow even only in 2wd.
A coworker of mine has the aforementioned Liberator tires from wal mart on his jeep liberty. Cheap and he says they do good on the steep gravel roads he has to travel every day to get to his house.
But if I were buying tires I would be thinking the same thing, are the LTX really worth that much more?
Star Specs?
I have always wanted to try retreads. I am needing a set of tires for my Nissan and I am considering this outfit. http://www.treadwright.com/
pilotbraden wrote: I have always wanted to try retreads. I am needing a set of tires for my Nissan and I am considering this outfit. http://www.treadwright.com/
Retreads scare the hell out of me. Granted, they're not NEARLY as heavily called upon as semi-trailer tires, but i've seen those things explode, and I want nothin' to do with that.
I think that you want some Hoosier A6's. Best tire available.
Some of the tires listed on the Rack mention "low rolling resistance" technology. Is that valid or snake oil?
as said above the liberators really are GOOD tires.
had someone come in with them on his wrangler the other day, 70k miles and 5 and a half years on them and they werent completely worn out
he said they didn't prvide the grip he wanted to do rock climbs but he loved them as a DD tire, and they did decently in light off road situations
I had LTXs on my Tundra - and a Sequoia is just a Tundra with a hat on. I really liked them and they lasted a good long time. I liked the way the truck rode and steered better than the Toyos on my coworker's similar Tundra.
They were on the truck when I got it and apparently had been for a while. I put 30,000 miles on the truck (mostly while towing something) and they were starting to get low enough that I was thinking replacement was in the relatively near future. I would have happily put another set on. Based on my foggy memory of what the PO told me, those tires probably had 70k on them by that point.
The replacement for that Tundra was a new Dodge 2500. I was very happy to see that it came with the LTX from the factory.
corytate wrote: as said above the liberators really are GOOD tires. had someone come in with them on his wrangler the other day, 70k miles and 5 and a half years on them and they werent completely worn out he said they didn't prvide the grip he wanted to do rock climbs but he loved them as a DD tire, and they did decently in light off road situations
I checked several Wally Worlds near me (and not so near me) and none show the Liberators as available, at least in the size I need them in.
Keith wrote: I had LTXs on my Tundra - and a Sequoia is just a Tundra with a hat on. I really liked them and they lasted a good long time. I liked the way the truck rode and steered better than the Toyos on my coworker's similar Tundra. They were on the truck when I got it and apparently had been for a while. I put 30,000 miles on the truck (mostly while towing something) and they were starting to get low enough that I was thinking replacement was in the relatively near future. I would have happily put another set on. Based on my foggy memory of what the PO told me, those tires probably had 70k on them by that point. The replacement for that Tundra was a new Dodge 2500. I was very happy to see that it came with the LTX from the factory.
Were they the LTX highway version or the LTX A/T version?
One of the highway versions, definitely not an A/T. I'll have to look at pictures of the truck and see if I can match up the tire tread. Looking at Tire Rack, I'm going to guess the M/S.
I'd stay away from A/T tires in a Mall Terrain Vehicle. There's just no need, and you'll get worse fuel economy and more noise. Plus the BFG A/T isn't all that good in the snow.
Put these on my '02 Silverado 4X in Nov.:
http://www.coopertire.com/html/products/tires_lighttruck.aspx?page=discoverer_at_3
Listed at $140 for 265/75R16, did OK through the Pa. winter and about half the price of the BFG A/T KO's I used to run.
Depends what you need 4WD for. For mud and rocks, sure. I run something very similar on my old Land Rover. But if you need it for snow, you don't want big chunky tread. You want small sipes. BFG A/Ts might work for your application (and they do look awesome), but they may not be right for dyintorace.
The Long Trail is a highway tire, that's more appropriate for this sort of use.
I did take my Tundra on the required off-highway trip - when you live near Moab, it's not optional! The highway tires and 4wd did well enough for the trails I was on, and A/T tires would have been wrong for every other mile that truck drove - even the times it was in 4wd.
Yep...2WD and highways only for me. That, plus boat towing. So my priorities are quiet, good wet grip (for rain) and good traction on wet boat ramps.
Given that, I guess "highway" truck tires are what I'm now focused on.
lizard wrote: My Xterra came with BFG Radial Long Trail T/A's and I've had BFG Radial All-Terrain T/A's on several other trucks. Both have been satisfactory. The Long Trails are more highway and the All-Terrains are more aggressive. I've gotten long life out of both and they stick pretty good for a truck tire. When it came time to replace them on the Xterra, I bought 1 new BFG and used the spare to match it. I bought 2 lesser tires (Falken Ziex S/TZ) for the other axle. Didn't pay to cheap out. The Falkens do not like wet weather. On the front they seem prone to hydroplaning and the RF would lock up under hard braking in the wet. On the rear, again wet traction is a problem and I've been sideways under much less throttle than it takes to slide the rear about on the BFGs.
there is a tire that is in between the long trail and the A/T, which is called the rugged trail. it has nearly solid continuous tread on the outer edge and blockier tred in the center for grabbing mud/dirt. they do fine in low clay mud in my experience. really sticky mud would require real mud tires anyways. its also available in an E load range for hauling and towing
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