OEM flares + 3/2 level “wheel they fit”

I’ve read for hours on the wheels forum, messaged people, and narrowed to a few sizes. I realize there are search features.

All said…

I think I want to do a 285/70/r18 at a +25 offset. With the flares I need to poke another few inches to look good I think.

Les Schwab says they won’t fit. I’m looking at tire fit websites and it looks like no problem.

I’m willing to take off the air dam but I would like to retain some sort of flap (don’t have yet) simply because I actually am off road 40-50 miles a week (dirt and sandy loam, mostly). While it’s dry it does tend to spit up the sides and I want the paint protection. I’m hoping flaps will keep the mud cake down on my steps.

Does anyone in a CrewMax 2.5 gen with flares run this setup? Care to share if it works? If you have flares, what are you running instead?

Factory tires and wheels approaching 3k miles now. I want to pull them and sell the set as take offs before I rack up too many more miles.

For tires I want to go with an AT. I do a lot of highway miles to get to the farms and my KO2s are loud. Looking to quiet down the slap.

 

+25 offset with that width tire should not have very much poke. It would depend on the flares your get. If you get the big, brawny bushwackers it may look odd with the wheels and tires. You should look at the lower profile OEM looking ones, it would look pretty good I think.

Look at the tiresizecalculator, it also has an offset visualizer, it tells you how much more poke you will have versus current setup.

 

The tire shop guy said a 285 would absolutely not fit. Thread here says otherwise.

the flares are the OEM Toyota flares. You can see from this angle I need to come out quite a way. A 275 is the same width so this is why I ask. I think it’ll look how it does now (which IMO, looks dumb)

 

285/70 would MAYBE fit with the oem +60 wheels even, the trouble spot would be UCA clearance. You may have to take off the front mudflaps though. I would find another tire shop. With +25 offset you can fit 35s on the tundra with mods to liner.

You can always just take the wheels to them off the car and have them mount and balance if they are being anal.