Thanks for the video. We only have 12K miles on our Outback. After our terrible winter we decided to buy new tires for our Subie this fall. We have decided on Falken Wildpeak AT tires. We generally get 4-5 ft of snow every winter, but this year we got much more. We live 5 miles from our town and our road is private. We have to maintain our road ourselves. We run studded snow tires on our Rav 4WD in the winter and our pickup has Cooper M+S tires we run year round. The Subie is my wife’s car and though the factory tires did okay, at times we couldn’t get over Blewitt pass or Snoqualmy pass to get to Seattle.
I bought this tire an notice solid wear about the 5k mark that normally wouldn't be until the 10k mark. That being said when I hit 23k on the tire I took it back in to my tire dealer and let him have a look. We pulled the install records that noted I had just hit 23k on the tires. That being said at 23k the tires had little to no life left in them.. Just so happened the tire rep for the distribution company was on site that day and had a look. He measured and his jaw dropped. They were worn so much he gave me an 80% discount on whatever set I wanted and ended up going with the AT3 and have not looked back. The Wild Peak has an awesome look with low performance and terrible on wet roads. Quiet and sleek but not worth the money for a 23k tire. This was on my 2016 Outback limited.
I have the Wlidpeaks. I didn't do quite as big though, I do drive in snow for part of the year and wanted a little more clearance. Oh yeah, you didn't mention the tires are 3-peak rated, so better on snow/ice than regular all-season, good enough for occasional winter driving. I also didn't widen the wheel. After looking into how much of a difference it might make, I decided the narrower tire would work just fine and keep the weight down. I do agree, the WRX wheels look better.
Tire conscious All terrain Falcón Wild peak all terrain Noise level down Good gas mileage 245/65 R17 - Falcon Stock look WRX Rim a little wider - offer up American tires company 4 tire deal
I just picked up an 18’ 3.6R. And I’m looking at the same tire. I’m honestly wondering if I want to go with a 17” and put new wheels as well so that I can maybe get a 225 65 17”. Just for a bigger sidewall. My vehicle came with 18” wheels. Not a bad idea to get the wrx wheels
Your wheel steer lock clearance test is not approved until you have my roomate Dustin sitting and bouncing on the vehicle over each tire while you perform the test. He is close to 400 lbs.s and is available for such purposes with confirmed round trip airlines tickets (regardless of whether he is local or not), and his usual fee (which is usually negotiated on a case by case basis). He is laboratory calibrated to simulate full strut compression as you do the steer lock test. :) But seriously, great choice and I just made the same one in the same size for an Outback Wilderness I just got. I'm putting mine on some Motegi MR139's that weight 22 lbs.'s and change which should mitigate the tire weight difference somewhat per corner. I think the tires are about ten pounds heavier, and I think the rims are about 3 pounds lighter. So this leaves me with approximately 7 extra pounds per wheel/tire combo. which I'm sure will hit my MPG somewhat. I'm keeping my stock wheels and tires to either sell, or to put in storage for cheaper long range road trips and commuting. Still have to figure out how to change TPSM sensor sync on the wheels without paying each time. I guess I'll have to buy or rent an electronic maintenance interface tool of some kind, or just give up plans of changing them out whenever I feel like it. It would be stellar if the software would allow for set A and set B which would cost ZERO dollars to program into the cars CPU. Then again, I've never HAD TPMS's before, so what the heck am I worried about? It is cool tho. And Dustin isn't getting NEAR my Wildebeast for a lock test, but don't let that sway your decision to hire him for your testing purposes. Databyter
Hey buddy, I'm picking up an outback wilderness this week and the first thing I'm changing is tires. That said, what size tire would you say I can squeeze on the outback? This will be another build I'm doing on our channel and I'm totally new to the Subaru world. Thanks for the video!
Those deals are out there, I got my wrx rims for free off of Facebook marketplace. The owner was upgrading his wrx and had run some track days on the oem rims that he was getting rid of.
