New rubber for the 79 Series 

My other half owns a gen 3 Jimny, lovely cars! It will be featured on my channel soon 😉

Usually a hot topic 🙂

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

Thanks Henk

Thanks for watching 👍

I like what I see so far. I will be trying other brands later as well

Yup, will give updates as we go and I will try other brands later as well

I like the NGauge system (it’s still the same ones I had in the Fortuner). They have all sorts of sensors and it all connects to your phone

@@GetOutGO thank you

Just got the GG AT3. Worried about road comfort and steering dead Centre. How’s your experience been? Driving 2021 Hilux

@@brianhoward1522 so far I find them very quiet and stable on the open road .

Standard is 265/70R16, the Maxxis are 285/75R16

So even though you drive 90% on tarmac, you’re saying you should buy MT’s just at the odd chance you might go off-road one day? So for 90% the time you’ll be driving a tyre that’s not intended for what you’re using it for… I find that overlanding in general is about finding the best compromise for what you need most often

@@GetOutGO definately yes! I think you are confusing, using your daily driver for occasional off road trips, with what I'm talking about; leaving home indefinitely to travel and doing the trails necessary to get me to the places I need to pass through to get there. As a traveller in a solo vehicle. If I'm going to be passing through the Amazon close to the wet season, even if it doesn't rain when I'm there I'll be glad I ran those mud terrains as insurance. Generally speaking my tire of choice is the Mickey Thompson Baja Boss A/T as it works well in almost every condition with few downsides. It's a good street tire and an okay mud tire too, with the payload capacity and puncture resistance I need.

⁠@@GetOutGOI am looking at a similar setup in the near future (New 79 or a 300 series) and I tend to agree with you Chris here. I cannot imagine risking my life driving on MT on tarmac 95% of the time. Swerving and brake distance are the absolute number one priority for me and occupants. No track in the would is worth more than that. I would rather take a chicken run or plan my trip properly. Anyway, great informative video as usual, I have taken a lot from this channel over the years. Keep it up

I agree with Chris, tyres are always a compromise and you need to decide with what compromise you are happy to live with. If I'm going to be traveling and only expect to do 10km of mud vs 25k km on tar over a 30k km trip then MT tyres don't make much sense to me, I would rather have the added safety of running a more road bias AT tyre which handles heaps better (and safer) on tar and maybe struggle for the 10km in mud, than running muds and risk loosing control or sliding off the road when on tar. You just need to use common sense to make sure the tyres you get suit your needs and mitigate the risks for your purpose.

​@SuperWoogs well this reply shows that you have never done long distance travel and you've also never been a Boy Scout. Firstly, nobody has ever slid off of a dry pavement road with mud terrain tires. This also assumes that over a 60,000 mile, 4-year Journey through 87 countries you're going to pre-plan every route you're going to drive in the next 4 years and that you will never have a detour, unexpected weather, or road closures in that time. It also assumes that Murphy's law will never throw you a curve ball like a bridge collapse, where you have to drive through the river, or a rainy season that came 3 weeks early on that 10 km of muddy road that is 600 km from the nearest tow vehicle. The premise of the video is how you buy tires for your daily driver, or a secondary vehicle. In overlanding you buy tires that are suited for the worst day you may have, then you suffer through the inconveniences they may cause the rest of the time. Just like insurance. You pay for it every day, just in case the day comes you will need it.

Maxxis don’t sell directly to the public as far as I’m aware (not even to RU-vidrs…). Did you try a dealer? Glad you’re happy with your Generals 👍