Mountainhound
Explorer
Great thread lots of great info here and have come to the conclusion that nothing was setteld. I myself prefer a skinny tire ran 235/85/16 on my pickups because was never a mud player or rock crawler. I found they preformed great on hiway in the woods hunting or in the mud at construction sites or log landings. Where I found they truelly shined was on snow and ice, course I run both a summer tire (at or mt) and a true winter tire. Now last year I bought a 94 fzj80 and was looking to put tires on it when I found out about the 255/85/16 wish I had known about them before I really like that size. I went with it because it is slightly taller than a 285/75/16 and I like skinny. I think my 04 f350 diesel would have loved that size. The 350 burnt on me 2-24-11 and finally bought myself a 2011 f250 last october the tires on it were horrendice(sp) traction was a nightmare street or snow but snow was a killer. Anyway I have a set of 285/75/18s on there now (toyo open country atII) I don't know where that places them on the fat or skinny range but I am quit happy with them. They are the tallest skinniest I could put on stock. Oh one thing I have noticed on the cruiser is that with the tires being realitvly skinny is that the rims do take a bit of abuse from the rock where I think a fatter tire might protect them a bit more, or maybe I just need to learn to drive better. Either way I wont be switching to a fatter tire anytime soon.