DougJ23

Hi all. First post here...

I have had several Toyota trucks in the past, but never a Tacoma, until today. I picked up a nice little '96 standard cab with the 2.7 and 5 speed, it runs and drives like new.

It's got the stock steel wheels on it (15X6?) and 235/75 street tires. It's going to see some use off road and in the snow, and it deserves a better look than what it's got too! To that end, I'm looking at getting some wheels and tires ASAP. I can get a full set of late model 16" tacoma alloy wheels for $200.00 and was figuring on 265/70 tires. That's about a 30.6" tire, up from around 28.5". I have looked at the codes on the door panel and it looks this truck has 3.58 gears for the small tires. Anyone have any experience with this jump in tire size? I live in the foothills in CA and the truck cruised up here with ease today, I don't want to lose that power and I don't want it to doggy when I'm towing my motorcycle trailer. Any input is appreciated!

As a side note, I'm looking at other wheel options and there isn't much to choose from in the 15X7 or 16X7 stock sizes. If I go to an 8" wheel where do I need to be in offset and backspacing for no rub at stock hight?

Thanks in advance!

Doug

dfskinner

Doug,
Where can you get the aloy wheels for $200.00, and is that for the set?

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DougJ23

Americas Tire Company. http://www.americastire.com/ There's nothing about this on the website.

It's a big chain so you should be able to find one locally. I asked the guy behind the counter about take-offs and he was able to pull them up on his computer by year and model, including pictures. It's a chain-wide service. For the common 16X7 alloy wheel from the late model Tacomas he came up with around 50 wheels. He was going to give them to me at $50 each. I was going to get tires too, don't know if that affected his price or not. Right now I'm on hold on the tire issue until I figure out a couple of other things.

Doug