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Toyo P275/60r20 114t Open Country A/t

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Old Aug 25, 2009 | 06:43 AM
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Talking Toyo P275/60r20 114t Open Country A/t

Can anyone tell me what these tyres are like?
I have no experience over here in the UK with regards to Toyo's, but notice a lot of our American cousins rate them highly.
I do 90% on road and some but very little off roading.
Any and all help is as always, appreciated.
Cheers guys.
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Old Aug 25, 2009 | 07:31 AM
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Al, I just did quite a bit of research on A/T tires as I lifted my Grand Cherokee 4x4 daily driver and wanted to put a bit bigger and beefier meats on it.

I found the better A/T tires to be the Toyo's, Mickey Thompson ATZ and Nitto Terra Grapplers. As much as I love Mickey Thompson/Dick Cepek tires, the over $200 a tire price tag for a comparatively small (265/65/17) tire meant no ATZ's for me.

Toyo and Nitto are owned by the same company and if you look at the Open Country A/Ts and the Terra Grapplers, they are basically the same tire. Both rate for very quiet road noise, excellent wet and dry pavement handling yet are very good off-road.
My determining factor was that the best price I could find the Toyos for was $160 a tire and I found the Nitto's for $130 a tire.

If you look at the new Nitto Trail Grappler everyone is so anxiously waiting for, look at the Toyo Open Country M/T, look just a little similar?

If the Nitto can be had cheaper than the Toyo over there, jump on it. But with either one, you are getting a fantastic A/T tire that can still service you well off-road.

Here are my 265/65/17 (31.5"x10.5"x17") Nitto's on the Grand Cherokee with 2" of lift:

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Old Aug 25, 2009 | 12:32 PM
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i love my toyos. and i dont know if they do it over in the uk as well, but they have a thing where you can drive on em for 500 miles, and if you dont like em, they will take them back for a full refund.
 
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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 08:11 PM
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I put a set of 255/70R16LT Toyo open country A/T's on my wife's old 2005 Trailblazer and I will NEVER buy another set. If I lived in a place where there was little rain and no snow they would be perfect! We had them installed in November 2007 and when we traded the junk TB in for a new Nitro in May 2009 the tires were slipping and sliding on wet pavement. They had 23,619 miles on them exactly. There was a LOT of tread left too and would easily get another 30k out of them although you needed 4WD in even the lightest snows. They were by far the worst tires I ever ran. The stock Goodyear ST's were 10 times better...and I dislike Goodyear tires. The second winter, she used 4WD nearly 100% of the time with any amount of snow.
 
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