No different than china $6 ball joints lol. I think you’re overthinking this. Don’t mean this rudely at all, just fascinated how scared people are of cheap generic tires. They collectively get millions of miles on them every year, if there was a big issue with them, the media would be all over it!
I just realized I failed to post pictures here. The first few days they wandered pretty bad but I’ve seen that before with the Mud Claw style tread. They have leveled out now and road noise/handling is more than acceptable. You don’t notice the noice with the radio or hvac fan running and it holds the road much better than the tiger paws. Ride is firmer due to them being LT tires but I’m running at 35psi right now so it’s not terrible. Overall I’m happy with them. It’s at the local Toyota dealer getting a timing belt and water pump before winter but should have it back in a few days. I’ve hauled just shy of 500 tons of gravel on the dump truck in 7 days and am far too busy to do something like a timing belt right now.
Did you have the 3E or 3E-E engine? IMO its the worst engine Toyota ever made because of the massive oil burn, even worse than some of the new Toyota.
Mine is the 3e-e, no measurable oil consumption on this one. When it sits for several days it’ll puff just a little blue smoke on startup but it doesn’t use enough to even notice a change on the dipstick. My big issue right now is I changed the valve cover gasket to eliminate a seep and can’t get the new one to seal up. It’s leaking pretty bad. It was a wholesale close out for $2-3 on rockauto though so probably old and not out much more than time to do it again.
Gonna grab one today hopefully
