Count said:
They're not that bad...they're just not as good as Revos.
But look at it this way, probably, most of your driving will be on the road/highway, with occasional ventures into snow/off-road. Perfect for the Rugged Trail tires.
What you feel these tires lack, you can look for in your next set of tires.
If you get 50 or 60K miles of wear out of the tires, I think that's pretty good.
You guys should check out
www.mycarstats.com or do google search on "toyota tacoma complaints" and go to the site and look at the formal toyota filed complaints on firestone/bridgestone tires that are coming on new taco's. Can't remeber if it's the Revo's but definitely some tire issue splitting and bulges for taco tires.
I never had antilocks on my toyota truck until the 05 model and came with the rugged trail BF's which rode comfortable but the tread depth on a new rugged trail tire new was the same depth as any other tire brand I owned after 25,000 miles (real shallow). They were not good on the snow and replace the rugged trails with michelin LTX mud/snow rated tires and they work pretty good on snow and packed snow/ice compared to the rugged trail but michelen LTX sucks as far as ride comfort. After leaving tire shop, the ride harsh as hell and thought had to much air in them but they just ride hard which is a surprise since the tread looks like a street tread. My worn out rugged trails with 45,000 miles rode more comfy that the new michelin ltx M/S tire. Not sure how their rated as a MS (mud) tire because doesn't look like a mud tread at all.
Better hope you don't do a walking speed rear end into someone (girl) who slams on their brakes in packed snow & full panic stop 40 yds from the stop sign & noone in front of them cause they applied to much brake and back end wiggled so she just did panic stop and by time I realized she was stopping was too late and hit this jeep junior SUV (cursing for 5 seconds till I hit her). The taco front bumper was simply plastic with nothing behind it at all except for appx foot back an aluminum bar. This means the bumper has no shock absorbtion at all and caused damage to bumper, headlight, hood, grill. I could have ran into a person and the person would have had no damage, jumped up and cursed me out and went about their business. The damage to SUV I hit was a scratch on the bumper. Cost me $4,000 damage to my truck alone. I haven't been in a wreck for 19 years and 550,000 miles before that. Once I found out how crappy my 05 bumper was I put a center bull bar on that came up to top 3/4 of grill so if it happens again I'd be out $300 and incur less damage.
I also found that since I never had antilocks on my taco before, I didn't push real hard on the brakes since the antilocks were kicking in and I was sliding, but found later testing on snow/ice in parking lot that if you push on the brakes harder, it does appear to try to stop sooner just vibrates more.
Good luck putting chains on the 05-07 tacoma, won't happen with the bigger tires 265/70/16.
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