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Originally Posted by DuallyGirl
Thank you very much- yeah I'm going to use the stock rims.
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Don't let these guys lead you down the primrose path.
On your 2006 Dooley, your stock wheels are 17"x6.5J. Yes. 6.5" wide. The tire makers all say that the widest tire you can safely run on those wheels is LT245/75R17 or LT255/70R17. In BFGoodrich AllTerrain, the LT245/75R17 is not quite 10" wide and not quite 32" tall. (BFG doesn't make the 255 in the AllTerain.)
The next bigger size, LT265/70R17, requires a 7" wide wheel. But you don't have 7" wide wheels.
Oh, you'd rather have a Toyo tire? Sorry, but the Toyo Open Country M/T comes in LT265/70R17 but nothing smaller. And sure enough, Toyo says that tire requires a minimum wheel width of 7" .
But wait! You didn't want that agressive M/T anyway. The Toyo Open Country A/T comes in size LT255/70R17, and Toyo says it will fit on a wheel with a minimum width of 6.5".
http://marktg.toyotires.com/file/18971.pdf
That A/T tread still too agressive for you? Toyo makes the Open Country with a highway tread (H/T), and yes, it comes in size LT255/70R17.
Can you run tires that require a 7" wide wheel on a wheel that's only 6.5" wide? Sure. Ignore the experts. Who needs them anyway?
But if you decide to rely on the tire engineers instead of some dude on the internet, then go with LT255/70R17 as the biggest tire you can safely run on your stock wheels.
35s? The BFGoodrich LT315/70R17 is the modern equivalent of the old 35". But the narrowest wheel it will fit on - per BFGoodrich - is 8.5". So your 6.5" pizza cutter wheels don't quite qualify.
