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Best tires for ice
One car and one truck here, they each have one set of tires.
But given the ice storm we're having this week I'm giving serious consideration to buying a set of studded tires for the truck tomorrow.
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Since we're in the middle of an ice storm that looks like it will last until after Christmas, all the local tire stores are jammed and their phones always busy (maybe even off the hook). There are stories of people lining up at 5 am to wait until they open.
So I went to tirerack.com and they did not have a single tire/wheel package for an 07 Tacoma. Not only that, they didn't have in stock a full set of winter tires in any of the three factory sizes for that truck.
I did find the nokian site, and they make a studdable tire in the right size. So after this ice storm I'll see about ordering a set of those mounted and balanced on a set of wheels from the local Tire Factory store. The stupid TPMS makes it a more expensive proposition with sensors in every wheel. The dealer wants hundreds of dollars just to reprogram the computer after a wheel swap. It makes more sense to put a piece of black electrical tape over the stupid tire pressure warning light.
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Harvey, thanks for the link to revolution supply. Their price on sensors for my truck was $117 each (at least it looked like each). A year or so I bought a brand new set of four off ebay for $80. The worst thing about these sensors on Toyotas is that swapping wheels with different sensors requires taking it to the dealer to have the main TPMS computer reprogrammed. When asked how much they said a few hundred bucks. I don't want to spend that twice a year when swapping.
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Mark, our 05 Highlander did not use individual tire sensors and instead used the ABS sensor to detect low pressure. When the tire pressure drops the effective diameter shrinks, the tire seems to spin faster, and the TPMS lights up an indicator in the instrument panel. There was no audible alarm. That system was awful, it false alarmed all the time when we traveled gravel roads and resetting it ever week was a pain. Eventually we gave up and just ignored the light.
The Tacoma has individual sensors, which has been dead reliable, but a real PIA for swapping tires+wheels between winter and summer. There's really no excuse for a design that requires the dealer to reprogram sensors with a wheel swap. That could have been done automatically with good design. Some guys have removed all five sensors and put them in a sealed PVC tube with a valve stem. Pump it up to pressure, throw the tube in the glovebox, and voila, no TPMS light.
Harvey, we've had three vehicles with TPMS. An 08 Subaru, 05 Toyota Highlander, and the 07 Tacoma and none of them have any special requirements for rotation.
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Mark and Murf, thanks for the pointer to the Nokian tires. This morning we put a set of studded Nokian Hakkapeliitta 5 tires on the wife's Subaru. I can see why those tires work so well - they are siped to the max and have twice as many studs as the Toyo M55s I bought for the truck. They also cost a pretty penny - $300/tire installed for tiny Subaru tires. Yowsa. But driving home on an ice packed road the tires gave a great feeling of confidence.
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