New Bridgestone Revos, finally.
 

I have been waiting for the Revos to go on sale. Could not pass up the $75 mail in. Here they are! I was going to get some front mud flaps and waited till the new tires were on..... glad I did, as you can see from the pix there is absolutely no room! 265/75/16

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...ewTires001.jpg

whew, barely!

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...ewTires002.jpg

last but not least, the keeper of the castle

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...ewTires006.jpg

you will love them :rockon:

Ditto.

x2 :drink:

yup, these things are great in the rain, cant wait till winter, lol

I always thought those looked good.....but I've never trusted bridgestone much. Good luck with em.

Why not?

I have my eyes set on some 31 x 10.5 x 15 Bridgestone Winter duelers for my up north trip and everything I've read says they are excellent.

I've never known bridgestones to last too long. I know theres alot of hardcore bridgstone lovers that will disagree, but my dad has had almost every type of tire on my 4runner and nothing's been as good as a cooper tire. My friend's bridgestones only got 10,000 miles of life out of em. Not to mention the're not a very aggressive A/T....I'd prefer the BFG over the Bridgestone. I guess its just me, but I wouldn't put em on my trucks.

wow... i was a tire guy for many years, and bridgestones last a long time... the revos are awesome as well.... cost too much for my blood though......

and i have had pretty much every type of tire on my vehicles......

They look great! Nice clean truck :great:

my mom's got bridgestones on her car now, because they guarunteed she'd like them and theyd be better than the michellins that she wanted. I wouldn't have done it but it was cheaper at the time.

so are these tires made mostly for street use?

I'd say so....

"I have been waiting for the Revos to go on sale. Could not pass up the $75 mail in. Here they are! I was going to get some front mud flaps and waited till the new tires were on..... glad I did, as you can see from the pix there is absolutely no room! 265/75/16"

jvangun
Thanks for posting your pics...The rebate right now is pretty hard to pass on. I have been trying to decide between the BFG's and the REVO's. After checking the stat's on Tire Rack.com I finally decided on the REVO's. After seeing your pic's, going to go with the stock size. Don't get me wrong, the 75's look awesome... Just a little to close for me. Just curious, did it change your speedo reading any?

Great looking ride! :bigok:

I liek your dog!!

Thundercloud, I was very leary about doing anything to this truck such as changing from the factory tire size, however, going from 265/70/16 to 265/75/16 only throws my spedometer off about 3mph at 80!!! Check it out. I was nervous about going a hair bigger but, glad I did. The little extra really fills up the extra wheel well space. If you want anymore pix, let me know.

Speedometer Calibrator
http://www.csgnetwork.com/speedocalibcalc.html

Wow...Thank's for that link...Thats a keeper.

Ok, you got me interested again in the 75's...I have to ask, any rubbing either lock to lock or over bumps? I have a street queen for now...just to new for me to do any wheeling so off road is not an issue. (I know I'm anal)

How about a gas mileage difference, any change there?

I have not noticed any rubbing including going over speed bumps in the neighborhood I live in. Gas mileage? I've only driven about 50 miles. I don't really do any rock crawling so imagine that these will do just fine for highway driving, wet pavement, snow, gravel, and mud. I would eventually like to get some new springs and shocks and figured might as well size up on the tires now since they will fit anyway rather than buying a new set once suspension is on.

I'm suprised also. My dad in the 80s/90s had Bridgestones on most of the farm trucks, they handled well and lasted for many miles. I've had their Winter Duelers on our car and they have performed well (although didn't last very long). How can a tire only last 10k miles? Don't take this personal, but I'm trying to understand what happened. But almost any tire including BFG ATs have stories of tires wearing out quickly (saw one on this forum I think stating only 14k miles). Was a defect or flaw identified, was it replaced under warranty? I will say we did have Coopers on the farm and they were good tires, certainly a good value, but ultimately we switched to Bridgestone for some reason. I think the dealer service was better.

Dave

Are the Revo's a decent offroad tire? I'm looking at them as well. I think the reviews at tire rack are mostly soccer moms and the like. My BFG A/T's never let me down when I had them on my '85 back in the early '90's, but I'm considering the Revo's. It's either the BFG A/T's or the Revo's, although one friend is telling me that the Pirelli Scorpion is very good, but I'm thinking that the Scorps probably suck and would get stuck in sand/mud faster than either the Revo or the BFG A/T's. Any opinions on how the Revo's hold against these two tires? I'm looking at 265/75/16's.