Join me for a great chat in this episode on choosing the right tyres for overlanding and caring for them!

There is a misconception that reducing tyre pressure for off-road driving is to flatten the sidewall for a bigger footprint, this is incorrect, reducing tyre pressure elongates the tyre and increasing the footprint. Some tyres, especially three ply sidewall tyres don’t sag as much when pressures are reduced so people assume they aren’t increasing the footprint, but they are as the foot print in now longer, not wider.

Love that truck! For my use case, all I would really need is a 5-door Jimny with deflatable 195/50SR15's. Much depends on project outcome, but we are in our 60's and some sand, middelmannetjies & gravel. No real 4x4 driving. Love the tyres you fitted here.

@GetOutGO

20 күн бұрын

My other half owns a gen 3 Jimny, lovely cars! It will be featured on my channel soon 😉

Always good hearing about tyres

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

Usually a hot topic 🙂

Thanks for that info Chris.. Real valuable 👍

Thanks for this episode Chris it's very informative.

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

Nice video Christoff. Like the interview part.

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

Thanks Henk

This was informative👍🏾

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Great choice !!

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

I like what I see so far. I will be trying other brands later as well

Very informative👌 Looking forward to your experience in the Maxxis after the proverbial tyre debacles you’ve had. Hope you’ll track and share the performance over the next few thousand miles.

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

Yup, will give updates as we go and I will try other brands later as well

Thanks for sharing and good & better luck with new brand vs old. Please can you comment on your experience with Ngauge system please. Thanks ian

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

I like the NGauge system (it’s still the same ones I had in the Fortuner). They have all sorts of sensors and it all connects to your phone

@ianmansfield9654

Ай бұрын

@@GetOutGO thank you

Had Coopers for the aggressive stuff and managed to get 100k out of them...but missed the small print about balancing and alignment every 5k...it got quite rough towards the end. Have since replaced with general grabber which is cool for daily stuff

@brianhoward1522

Ай бұрын

Just got the GG AT3. Worried about road comfort and steering dead Centre. How’s your experience been? Driving 2021 Hilux

@seamus9750

Ай бұрын

@@brianhoward1522 so far I find them very quiet and stable on the open road .

What size is stock and size did you fit?

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

Standard is 265/70R16, the Maxxis are 285/75R16

This was a good video but I think the last bit of information was incorrect. When choosing tires for overlanding you need to heed the boy scout motto, "be prepared". When buying tires for an overland vehicle you should purchase based on the worst terrain you are expecting to see. Even if it's only 0.2% of your travel, expect the unexpected.

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

So even though you drive 90% on tarmac, you’re saying you should buy MT’s just at the odd chance you might go off-road one day? So for 90% the time you’ll be driving a tyre that’s not intended for what you’re using it for… I find that overlanding in general is about finding the best compromise for what you need most often

@fabulousoffroaddesigns5080

Ай бұрын

@@GetOutGO definately yes! I think you are confusing, using your daily driver for occasional off road trips, with what I'm talking about; leaving home indefinitely to travel and doing the trails necessary to get me to the places I need to pass through to get there. As a traveller in a solo vehicle. If I'm going to be passing through the Amazon close to the wet season, even if it doesn't rain when I'm there I'll be glad I ran those mud terrains as insurance. Generally speaking my tire of choice is the Mickey Thompson Baja Boss A/T as it works well in almost every condition with few downsides. It's a good street tire and an okay mud tire too, with the payload capacity and puncture resistance I need.

@SoftCampingSouthAfrica

Ай бұрын

⁠@@GetOutGOI am looking at a similar setup in the near future (New 79 or a 300 series) and I tend to agree with you Chris here. I cannot imagine risking my life driving on MT on tarmac 95% of the time. Swerving and brake distance are the absolute number one priority for me and occupants. No track in the would is worth more than that. I would rather take a chicken run or plan my trip properly. Anyway, great informative video as usual, I have taken a lot from this channel over the years. Keep it up

@SuperWoogs

Ай бұрын

I agree with Chris, tyres are always a compromise and you need to decide with what compromise you are happy to live with. If I'm going to be traveling and only expect to do 10km of mud vs 25k km on tar over a 30k km trip then MT tyres don't make much sense to me, I would rather have the added safety of running a more road bias AT tyre which handles heaps better (and safer) on tar and maybe struggle for the 10km in mud, than running muds and risk loosing control or sliding off the road when on tar. You just need to use common sense to make sure the tyres you get suit your needs and mitigate the risks for your purpose.

@fabulousoffroaddesigns5080

Ай бұрын

​@SuperWoogs well this reply shows that you have never done long distance travel and you've also never been a Boy Scout. Firstly, nobody has ever slid off of a dry pavement road with mud terrain tires. This also assumes that over a 60,000 mile, 4-year Journey through 87 countries you're going to pre-plan every route you're going to drive in the next 4 years and that you will never have a detour, unexpected weather, or road closures in that time. It also assumes that Murphy's law will never throw you a curve ball like a bridge collapse, where you have to drive through the river, or a rainy season that came 3 weeks early on that 10 km of muddy road that is 600 km from the nearest tow vehicle. The premise of the video is how you buy tires for your daily driver, or a secondary vehicle. In overlanding you buy tires that are suited for the worst day you may have, then you suffer through the inconveniences they may cause the rest of the time. Just like insurance. You pay for it every day, just in case the day comes you will need it.

Maxxis customer service sucks - I wanted to get some, but I suppose because I’m not a KZreadr, they couldn’t even bother to give me a quote- happy with the General Grabber’s I got instead

@GetOutGO

Ай бұрын

Maxxis don’t sell directly to the public as far as I’m aware (not even to KZreadrs…). Did you try a dealer? Glad you’re happy with your Generals 👍