Anyone running the Toyo Open Country MT 285-75- R16 tires on their F250 or F350? I watched a show the other day & Superlift said they were awesome, quiet, & the treadlife is supposed to be real good.



If so.
1) Do you like them ?
2) Are they quiet ?
3) Would you recommend ?

 

they look good and ive seen alot of folks runnin em but i have the same questions as you. little pricey and hard to find though.

 

I run a 35" and love the tire. they are quiet. I would buy them again, I have about 10,000 miles on them and they are wearing pretty good. There are pics in my galleryof them in the exterior part.

 

I had 265s on my 99 F250SD for about 15,000 mi before I bought my new one. They were pretty good. Quiet, good wet weather performance, good handling. Never had them off-road or in the snow, though. The guy who bought my truck likes them too.

 

You may want to get on a list to get the tires now if you are lifted. Toyo is having a hard time keeping up with the demand.

 

I haven't heard a negative thing about them yet.....I also think they are one of the best looking tires out there. Too bad you can't get them National backorder....first I heard 30 days, then 60 days, then 30 to 90 days, and now, indefinitely. I think there are a couple of things going on. First, the quality is better than many other tires in the same sizes, and the load carrying capacity is higher than most other M/Ts so the military is using them. I think alot of the Toyos are going to Iraq for Humvees and other vehicles. Next, apparently they are building a new facility somewhere in the midwest? Once that is up and running, hopefully they will be able to get caught up. I am sure there are some dealers around the country that have some, but all you can do is start calling. I was at Belle Tire yesterday and I think they had some 33X12.50R20's in stock, but no way on any 17 or 18 inchers, probably used on the Hummers. Maybe the 16s would be easier to find. I have pretty much given up finding any until spring.

 

i will be getting the toyo open country AT's, because i want a good tire that is quiet but has good traction. i wont be off roadin it much, with a 172'' WB.

i looked on ebay a few days ago, i saw what i wanted- LT325/60/R18's for about $825 for four tires shipped. not a bad deal.

 

Have you checked out tirerack.com? They have lots of consumer reviews and you can pull up a graph of the ratings on a whole group of tires. I have the stock aluminum rims, so I went from a michelin 285x35x16 to a 265x75x16, which has a higher load rating than the 285x35. I went with a Firestone brand because it was more like a commercial truck tire and they had a decent rating on tirerack.com and the price was good. I was also looking at the Bridgestone Dueler A/T Revo that had very high consumer ratings, but they were a little pricy. Goodyear also has one called Fortera Silent Armor, which is supposed to have some sort of gel liner that makes the tire very quiet.

 

i have 265x75x16 Firestone Transforce AT tires.

 

Thanks for all of the info.

From the way it looks no one in this country can get these tires therefore I am going to look for a different tire.

 

check ebay man, i see alot of them for about $600-700

 

I must be lucky as heck then because I made the call for them an hour ago and am having them installed around 3pm today.... unless Schwab messed up on the size or something. I specified the MT when I called and the price sounds right for them.

 

And no surprise - Schwab messed up. I specified the MTs several times but when I showed up at the store they had a set of 4 brand new ATs sitting waiting for me

I ended up going with Cooper SXT MTs - pretty mean looking tire, similar to the Toyo MT. So for I really like them.

 

Sorry to hear that. I did some homework & everyone told me the same thing. You can't get them right now.

 

MRKnight,

I went to the Cooper website but I did not see the SXT Mt tires you are talking about. I wouldn't mind seein a pic of them.