What's it like running all-terrain tires on a Subaru?

oh I definitely need to stop a down arrow, I still see a lot of people who don't vent when going off road. You're going to enjoy off-roading. Why not make it more comfortable? Then you have the added benefit of reducing the chances of getting a flat tire because the tire is simply more flexible, it is more likely to bend over a sharp rock rather than being punctured by a balloon, hair down

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also give you more grip because they have a greater patch contact with the ground it really only takes me about five minutes to inflate all four

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.

You don't need an expensive $80 deflator kit to let the air out of your tires so this is the deflator I use or rather the z deflator. - they simply screw on with the same threads as a valve stem and you screw each one onto the valve stems that way you can inflate all four tires at once. It's only about $20 on Amazon. I found out about this from Jared in the back. road exploring and I loved it oh that's so much better it makes the road a lot smoother when I drive on gravel roads like these forest roads and I usually breathe at about 25psi when I first ordered my wheels and tires from Discount Pull.

Straight up, I actually ordered the Falcon Wild Peak all

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tires and at 3575 15 I thought I could put them on there. I had seen them on many other third generation foresters like this one, but due to my one inch elevation, I will explain further. About that later I couldn't ride the 235, the other problem was that at the time I wrongly assumed that the tire specifications were simply width, sidewall height and wheel diameter, so I believed that any tire with a 75 sidewall would have the same sidewall as the other 75 tire, that second number, however, expresses the height of the sidewall as a percentage of the width of the tire, therefore, 75 percent of a 235 is a higher sidewall than 75 percent. percent of a 215, since that was the smallest size available on the Falcon wild peak 83w I had.

To find a different all

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tire that offered a size that could fit they are BF Goodrich ta keo twos and they are 2 1575 r15. The original wheel size of this forester is 16 inches and the original tire size is 205. No tire size is 225. The stock tire size is I think 2560 is 16 tire sizes. Communication is a useful site for research and tires. I especially like the tire size comparison calculator, which really helps visualize

what

those tire specs mean in the physical world, so here, for example, we can put in the Original OEM Size of the Forester and we can put in the size that I'm currently

running

and you can see there's the OEM Forester size there's the tire size I run some of the guys that run 2 inch risers are

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35 75 15 and there you can see how much bigger the tires I run are Currently, one of the main reasons why people who like to offer on Subarus upgrade to a 15 inch wheel instead of the 16 or 17 that come standard. that you can put a tire on that has a higher profile, more sidewalls, basically, that not only gives you more rubber to absorb the off-road impacts when you inflate it, but it also gives you a lot more room to inflate so you can obtain a larger contact area.

On the ground, the Forester, I was just running standard continental all-season tires and they were great tires, they were amazing on the road, quiet and very, very smooth, and I did all kinds of off-road excursions for a whole year and the car ran well, I mean. Subaru's all-wheel drive is great and gets you through all sorts of things, but I was amazed at the difference that putting specially made all-terrain tires with air on the grip is just phenomenal, the difference is noticeable and the car is like a tank , it really makes exploring the countryside a pleasure because it eliminates this uncertainty, they just take you there and I was able to stop worrying about blowing a tire on a rock or something.

I have driven both of these Kyo's. over pretty much any type of terrain you can imagine mud dirt gravel rock lava rock sand snow logs for me the biggest drawback of the KO two is simply its weight having so many layers it is a heavy heavy tire the car became noticeably slower when trying to move the weight of these tires and is less quick and quick around town, it just doesn't accelerate like it did before moving, that extra unsprung weight obviously affected my fuel consumption as well. I don't have a commute so the majority of my hours in this car are actually on the road, if you do a lot of city driving and don't want to see such a big impact on your car's performance and fuel consumption, you may want to consider a lighter weight. terrain, obviously, one of the other disadvantages of the KO two in particular is the expense.

The ko 2's are definitely louder on the highway on pavement than my all season tires where they make a little whirring noise when you're doing 55 or 60 miles per hour. time, fortunately, there are quite a few all-terrain tire options available to us, even in Subaru sizes, the Cooper Discoverer 83 Yokohama goal and wins geo 15 general grabber 82 or ATX continental all-terrain, contact Firestone destiny 80, of course, the Falcon wild blue k2 3w I originally tried to install these, these are just the ones that came to mind. If you've had good luck with another brand of all-terrain tire on your Subaru, please comment below about your experience or, indeed,

what

you think of one.

Of these, including your knowledge and experience, could be helpful to someone else researching what to buy. You need a lift to use all-terrain tires. No, you don't need it in a Subaru. The main limitation to using a larger diameter tire is not the distance from the body of the car, but it is actually the spring mount right here, this is on the strut, the lift is on top of the strut here, so it doesn't matter how much lift whether or not you have the distance from the wheel, hub, tire to This place here will always be the same, plus the +15 offset of the Black Rhino wheels pushes the wheel and tire out away from the position of the spring, this is also how you gain clearance for larger tires on my In case the one inch lift is actually more of a hindrance than a help to installing larger tires, when you put a spacer on top of the strut, it actually changes the position of the wheels in the wheel well and as you can see there is very little room in the front. so with the one inch lift there my wheel actually came forward and I couldn't fit a tire bigger than that.

I actually ended up cutting off some plastic fender liner that was sticking out here and hammering back the pinch weld and even cutting away a bit. A little bit of metal in there to give it a little more breathing room. The advantage of a two-inch lift is that it includes components that re-center the wheel so you can fit a larger tire without hitting the front of the rear wheel. Well, here is my Forester at stock height with tires that are virtually identical in size to my current SUVs, no lift needed. Oh, and yes, I carry a full size spare, but I'll talk more about this in a future video after running them for A year later, I'm still completely excited about the BF Goodrich ko2.

It's a tough grippy tire that, while not the cheapest, has proven to be immensely capable across a wide variety of terrain and conditions; However, there are many other options available that might better suit your needs. In terms of weight, road noise, cost, or overall appearance, regardless of which tire you use, I absolutely recommend airing it when you leave the pavement for added comfort, increased grip, and increased puncture resistance if you've been investigating all terrain for your Subaru. I hope this has been at least a little bit helpful and far from being an expert of any kind, but I'm happy to share what I've learned through my own experience.