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Howdy! San Diego County Sheriff's SAR here, so far very pleased with my 1958. Great on space, I've carried four-person field teams out to assignments with loads of space in the rear seats for legs and in the back for field packs plus my recovery gear. I've never enjoyed going out with folks with...

Looks great! Excited to hear how they wear, growing up in NY/NE my folks swore by Hakkapeliittas once the temperatures dropped. I'd be happy to give Nokian my business again if the AT product lives up to their flagship.

Very possibly. The rear legs could probably drop another 3 inches or so without needing to clear the rear seat, but the limiting factor is really the transmission tunnel, that leg is completely bottomed out and everything else had to be raised to compensate. It's several pieces once it's...

This one is the 25" width.

If my experience with BFG KO3s is any indication only one side of the tire gets the white lettering, so with an asymmetrical pattern they can be mounted either way. I personally didn't want the flash so I put mine facing inside.

Really wanted to run pizza cutters but there's very little choice right now for 18s. Tire manufacturers think off-roaders only run 16s and 17s, and only heavy duty pickups run 18s. All the off-road tire options for 18s are either street-construction SLs or heavy E-load tires, and the latter...

Quick take based on about five minutes of driveway experience and zero nights. Not sure this is the perfect solution for my use case, but it's promising. Came across this product while looking for removable sleeping options to make up for the lack of a flat floor. This isn't a full time...

For another data point, I didn't have any luck with my 245/70R18s, and they're still sitting in my garage waiting for... something. That size only comes on one vehicle, and everyone with that vehicle is here debating what to replace it with.

I’m seeing two issues here: One, this guy will just be unhappy with any new car, these safety features are all mandatory now and hopefully for the trouble of needing to press a button to leave your garage, society will have fewer toddlers run over. I’m happy with that trade off. Two, the 1958...

Not sure about the Canadian market, but I can be in 4Lo with the center diff unlocked.

Yup! 750/70R18 tires on stock wheels. The KO3s are louder than stock (although I only drove on those from the dealer to the tire shop) but only barely louder, they're perfectly acceptable overall and very good for an AT tire, and the LC has great noise insulation. Ride is definitely compromised...

New data point: While I managed around 21 on my road trip from Denver to SD on the 275/70R18 E-load BFG KO3s, I'm now down to around 18 in 50/50 mixed city/highway driving around town, doing my best to drive like a grandma. I've got just over 1400 miles on the clock and it went in for its first...

Not to take the wind out of the sails out of a custom plate poll, but you can in fact get a regular sequential assignment on the legacy plate. They're issuing in the X000X1 series now, with the last digit remaining 1 until they exhaust every other combination. I got in early on the preorders...

It’s interesting, my speedometer is still reading one or two MPH over actual based on GPS speed readings even on oversized 275/70R18 tires, but my odometer is running about 4.5 percent under actual.

Different, slightly narrower wheel on the 1958 at 18x7", but that'll still allow most 275/70R18 tires, with a lot of folks here showing success with BFG KO3s (what I'm running myself) and Falken Wildpeak AT4Ws in that size on the stock 1958 rims. As for other tires, the spec sheets will say what...

I think some are produced there for NA-built Toyotas, but my window sticker said 0% US/Canadian parts and 100% Japan.

To a point up-thread, this is not an aerodynamic vehicle. Air drag has an exponential effect on efficiency as speeds increase, even more so if you're dealing with any kind of headwind or crosswind, so keeping it to the speed limit on the freeway will cut down on consumption. I'm a little let...

Once I finally found where the turbo boost and hybrid assist gauges were hidden on the 1958's driver display, I flipped back and forth between those and MPG crossing AZ with high winds. I noticed that with a headwind the engine was often into the boost and sitting there when I had cruise control...

Linking the discussion we're having over in the "tire upgrade" thread for reference here, but for folks stumbling on this thread, this seems to be what everybody moving up to 33s on stock suspension can expect. https://www.landcruiserforum.com/threads/tire-upgrade.525/page-29#post-17733

There's no substitute for just crawling underneath and getting a look, and now that I'm finally home I can. The issue does not appear to be that it "doesn't fit" (so that's 0 for 2 on tire shop opinions), it's that per TW's observation here, it's just a pretty wide tire and is hanging lower than...

Sorry to raise a thread from the dead, but how are you using your compressor with the LC? I just picked up an 88P of my own and I've used one before on a conventional gas truck hooking up to the 12V battery under the hood, but the hybrid system is new territory. Are you using the underhood jump...

No real issues, it was a blast. Since I was westbound I did it Ouray to Telluride, and without the Camp Bird bypass the toughest thing I ran into was a bit of a gatekeeper at the start of the trail really pushing the approach and departure angles and it took me a couple minutes to find the best...

Road tripped from pickup in Denver back home to San Diego with the 275/70R18 E-load KO3s and have a stated average of 20, but after adjusting for undercounting on the odometer closer to 21 MPG, although this includes going over the Rockies (including several paved and unpaved mountain passes)...

Hi folks! I flew to Denver on Wednesday, took delivery of my UN-spec Land Cruiser on Thursday, and just spent the last two and a half days taking the most direct route home to San Diego.