Toyo open country MT reviews
03-15-2012, 08:31 AM
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I had two sets of the Toyo MTs, one set in 33 on my TJ and a set in 35" on my JK. Both sets had the lugs peeling off the tire carcas on all 8 tires. Dealer said it was because of the rocks in Moab, no warranty. This was within 5k miles on each set. They ate the ball joints on the '10 Rubicon in 5k miles because of their insane weight. My jeeps were stock but lifted and saw no rough treatment, I wheel with Hummers so we go slow and pretty easy trails. Next set was MT/R but the Kevlar models. Great tire but could never balance them out. 16 oz on a couple of them. Now I run KM2s and have had zero issues.
03-15-2012, 08:37 AM
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I had two sets of the Toyo MTs, one set in 33 on my TJ and a set in 35" on my JK. Both sets had the lugs peeling off the tire carcas on all 8 tires. Dealer said it was because of the rocks in Moab, no warranty. This was within 5k miles on each set. They ate the ball joints on the '10 Rubicon in 5k miles because of their insane weight. My jeeps were stock but lifted and saw no rough treatment, I wheel with Hummers so we go slow and pretty easy trails. Next set was MT/R but the Kevlar models. Great tire but could never balance them out. 16 oz on a couple of them. Now I run KM2s and have had zero issues.
03-15-2012, 08:57 AM
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I agree but my Toyos were not chunking in the normal way. I was having individual tread blocks come completely off or just hanging by small amounts of rubber. This along with deep cracks meant the tire were not drivable. The KM2s need to run with more air off road.
03-15-2012, 09:01 AM
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wierd. never had that happen to me before and, as you can see in all our photos and videos playing on moab rocks, rubicon rocks, hammers rocks or otherwise, our toyo's as well as everyone else who runs with us are fine. the only time i've found bfg's to work better in deep snow and mud but otherwise, more or less air still resulted in sidewall failures.
03-16-2012, 02:07 PM
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Sweet looking ride Speedy.....might have to rethink this.....I was thinking Nitto or BFG KM2's 35x12.50x17...but now I'm not sure....on the verge of a buy now that I'm lifted.
03-16-2012, 03:50 PM
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Nitto and Toyo are sister companies, and the Trail Grapplers are comparable to Open Countries so you can't go wrong. I was also looking at Open Countrys, but ended up going Trail Grapplers.
03-16-2012, 04:25 PM
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I've owned both the D load range and the E load range version of this tire. I thought they were a great tire overall and was happy with them. They are a heavy tire, but were very durable when I ran them across both the Rubicon and Fordyce.
03-16-2012, 04:28 PM
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a tire that doesn't chunk is a tire with a rubber compound that is too hard. i've run bfg's and yeah, while they wear like iron, i have never found them to offer the kind of grip that toyo's provide and, i have also found them to have the thinnest/weakest sidewalls of all the MT's i've run.
90% of the cut sidewalls that leaked air were people running with me on KM/2s.
I cut a sidewall on my Krawlers that was 3/16" deep and my tire did no leak all the way off the trail. My Toyo's were pretty solid and didn't chunk mutch, providing a great balance between durability and capability. My Krawlers did chunk but that was the trade off for grip IMO...
