I’ve watched a lot of his vids and honestly feel like he’s sponsored by Nitto the way he constantly praises them lol
I'm in SW Georgia and see a lot of Nitto tires on trucks. Did you know that Nitto is owned by Toyo? Besides, he sells many different brands of tires.
What I think about today is what a few ex employees of Toyo’s GA plant shared, which was that the quality has gone slightly downhill since 2020, specifically at that location because of mismanagement. I was told to always aim for the Made in Japan variants.
Interesting as I personally had the opposite experience with Toyo, but I don’t doubt it. I read that the made in Serbia Toyo’s have trouble with balancing.
You can take the ex employees statements with a grain of salt. Toyo Tire in Georgia is non-union and the union wants in there really bad.
I’ve heard great things about the AT4W’s. I’ve considered them in the past but they’re heavier than the Toyo’s.
My brother swears by G015’s on his Tahoe. The only thing I didn’t like about them is that they seem to have a somewhat high rolling resistance. But they’re stellar everywhere else
On my F150 I went back and forth between the G015 and Contintental AT … what was it the TerrainContact? Or something like that? Both were identical for me in mpg. The Continental was also noted for being a higher rolling resistance tire. That said, both were maybe 1 mpg less than the factory tires (which I didn’t care for). I didn’t think 1 mpg from 22.5 in a truck was bad for the improvements received? Both tires were superior in terms of noise level and dirt traction on low intensity off road (basic trail, yard, unfinished construction site, etc.). I ran the G015s for a couple of years until I decided to downsize to 18” wheels, and then gave them to by boss who ran them on a Yukon XL, not a lightweight vehicle. They served him very well and he got several more years out of them, in fact I think they did better on his heavier XL than my aluminum-bodied ford. In the end, the tread started to just break apart rather than simply wear down smooth, with a total of well over 60k miles on them.
Glad to hear this
While I am not a tire tech more of a general service and heavy line tech I do do tires as well. With that said I am sure there are other tires out there that I just don't see enough of to really know
I used to like the K02’s. The K03’s not so much..
Agreed. Too street. They need to go back to the KO or KO2
Funny enough I saw the Thunderers on my Walmart app today and thought they looked pretty cool
