1ST Modification will be changing out all terrain tires

[Trailguide79]

I will be going with more highway friendly wheels and tires as my 1st modification besides heat rejecting window films.

Unsprung weight effects performance (btaking, steering, accelerating), component wear (brakes, suspension components), and efficiency quite substantially. If the Traveler sees daily driver duty, I see no reason to keep heavy all terrain tires on.

I will keep the OEM all terrain tires mounted to OEM wheels in my garage if I wanted to use them for some fun stuff, but daily tires I will be using something less noisy, better wearing, and probably some all season tire variant.

Frankly I see a lot of efficiency to be gained, and additional performance to be had by swapping to a sensible set of all-season tires.

Unsure of what wheel options will be available, but this is my intention so far.

Does anyone have OEM wheel bolt patterns and tire sizes available?

While some love a beefy large tire set up, and it looks great for rugged terrain, I'll simply keep the stockers to toss on if I was to go to a meet up.

What are other's thoughts on this?

 

[pwrofgrayskull]

For what it's worth, the BFGs (if they stick with those for production) are some of the lightest ATs I've come across. Well, that's for the KO2 - I haven't checked the KO3 yet because they haven't released any sizes that I could make use of quite yet - but I'd assume they have continued that lightweight (relative to other ATs, of course) trend. I see what you're getting at though with the way you plan to use it. Makes sense to me.

I guess I'm kind of on the opposite side of the topic. We have a lot of off road terrain very close by and we are constantly going on mild to medium dirt/gravel/rocky (often jagged volcanic rock) roads and trails on most weekends. Long story short, for my intended use if it doesn't come with at least a semi-aggressive AT out of the gate, I'll need to buy tires right away or risk a puncture considering the terrain we get out on because I don't want to have tire issues at 30, 75, or 100+ miles from civilization. Especially considering we often don't have cell service on those trails. I would actually love to see a 37 inch option from the factory purely because we would make use of the extra ground clearance, but that's asking a lot and it sounds like there's virtually zero possibility of them cramming a 37 under the Terra bed since they've already made it clear that even a 35 will need to be mounted in the bed. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.