Wheels

I just bought my first Tundra (and truck for that matter) and love it! However, I’m not over the moon about the oversized tires/wheels that were on it. They stick out past the wheel well which I don’t love. I don’t know much about trucks - do you know why they would be sticking out? Is it simply because they are too big to be flush with the wheel well? Is there some kinda of spacer that was added so they’d stick out? I tried looking underneath and behind the wheel but couldn’t discern much. And forgive this truck newbie - I need to learn a lot!

 

Welcome from NY.
There could be a wheel spacer behind each wheel. Have you pulled a wheel off to check?
The wheels are aftermarket so the buyer could have wanted that look so they bought them with a different offset from the factory offset.

Have you viewed this?....
https://www.tundras.com/threads/gen-3-2022-wheels-and-tires-photo-thread.101215/#post-2590585

 

Welcome. What Jim said ^ . Those wheels are aftermarket with a different offset than factory. If you are familiar at all with backspacing, offset is the same thing, just measured differently (from the center of the wheel vs the lip of the wheel). Say you have an 18x8 wheel - 18" tall, 8" wide. If you had zero offset, the mounting surface between the wheel and brake disc/hub face would be in the middle of the wheel, speaking width-wise - so 4" on either side (Though it's not really the exact center of the wheel because the wheel is made out of material of a specific thickness, but for our purposes, we'll call it centered). That would be called 0mm offset because the mounting offset isn't mounted offset in either direction.

Let's say your factory wheels are around +60mm offset, meaning the mounting flange is pushed 60mm to the outside of the vehicle. This draws the tire inwards toward the middle of the vehicle. Negative offset would move the mounting flange inwards, pushing the tire outwards away from the middle of the vehicle.

Those aftermarket wheels have a more aggressive (negative) offset - meaning the centerline of the wheel has been moved inwards, pushing the tire outwards, partly outside of the fender. It may still be a positive offset, like +12, but it is less positive the the OE wheel, if that makes sense.

I'm sure you can find some OE wheels for not too much monies and have them swapped over. They will need to dismount your tires, swap the tire pressure sensors to the new wheels, and then remount the tires on your new wheels. Fairly straight forward for any tire shop and will probably cost you ~$100 for the service.