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How many have two sets of wheels

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#1 ·
I wonder how many have two sets of wheels for their Tacoma.. one for off road and other for every day street driving. I was thinking of getting some nice 18's or 20's for my Pre Runner with smooth Street rubber and keeping the stock 16's for off road.

I've only taken my truck once off road in the Arizona desert to do recreational shooting . I was fine on the trail the OEM tires. I almost got stuck in the sand crossing a dried river bed. The lockers saved me big time. I was moving very slow going back and forth to get unstuck with the lockers engaged. I think with better off road tires I would be better off. What do you recommend for off road that is better than the stock tries? I am not looking for agressive tractor paddle tires.
 
#2 ·
i don't have them, but it's not uncommon for people to have a set of summer tires mounted on their nice wheels and a set of winter tires mounted on some cheapo steelies. I don't drive in snow and it hasn't snowed in san jose in i think 60yrs. But yea, if i off-roaded i wouldn't want to mess up a nice set of wheels, so a second set makes sense.
 
#3 ·
Me. I got a good price on a second set of new stock alloys for my 265/75/16 T/A KMs. Then, the new mud terrains ride so good I decided to store the original wheels and tires in my garage for the next owner of my truck.

In fact, I kept all my stock parts and will take the Taco back stock before I sell/trade.
 
#10 ·
crusty said:
How much for the Ivan's ? 1 set
I'm keeping the Ivans. One set with 265/75/16 GoodYear MT/R, and the other with 265/75/16 BFG AT KO's.

I need to get rid of the ION's...

Marc M
 
#16 ·
For winter, I run Blizzaks on 16' black steelies, Stock 17' treads for the rest of the year. Takes 20-30 minutes to do the change over in my garage. easy.

Same setup, differnet sizes (obviously) on my wife's Mazda 3s
 
#17 ·
niptek said:
ill have 3 sets soon. stocks w/ oem tires, 18" Volk te37s with falken stz-04 street tires, and soon to have 18" Gramlight 57sx-pro with street tires. ill change all the tires when I lift my truck to 285/65/18
someone is a wheel whore. badass choices on wheels though. where you into imports before the taco?
 
#18 ·
vubuilt said:
someone is a wheel whore. badass choices on wheels though. where you into imports before the taco?
nope. I just like wheels. :lol: Konig is about to come out with some te37 knock offs. ill be the first to have and rock those too. The real Volks are going on the sequoia and I am keeping the Gramlights for the Tacoma, and the Konigs are going on the 00 tundra
 
#19 ·
zmanphx said:
I wonder how many have two sets of wheels for their Tacoma.. one for off road and other for every day street driving. I was thinking of getting some nice 18's or 20's for my Pre Runner with smooth Street rubber and keeping the stock 16's for off road.

I've only taken my truck once off road in the Arizona desert to do recreational shooting . I was fine on the trail the OEM tires. I almost got stuck in the sand crossing a dried river bed. The lockers saved me big time. I was moving very slow going back and forth to get unstuck with the lockers engaged. I think with better off road tires I would be better off. What do you recommend for off road that is better than the stock tries? I am not looking for agressive tractor paddle tires.
You only have one locker ;). You can get decent offroad tires for your 2wd in 18" (BFG ATs) and run nice rims, and nice tires. It wont affect the street performance, IMO, enough to warrant having 2 sets of rims/tires.
 
#25 ·
2 sets:

Summer: Stock OEM Alloys for the Nittos - but when the tread is gone, so are they (OEM rims) to a friend with an FJ & I'll get some some real nice aftermarkets.

Winter: Hakkas on steelies (stock Toyota steel takeoffs). Boring, but up here, driving to the mountains every weekend to ski, who cares about looks - truck looks like crap constantly. (they salt & sand the snot out of the roads, and still people ditch witch their vehicle like crazy).

Switch them myself. I'll save back the cost of the steel rims in mounting costs in 1.5 years by my math.

cheers
 
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#27 ·
I tried to stick to 1 set with the taco since I have 5 for the S2000. But I ended up slapping winters on the OE rims and muds on some procomp crawler steels.