Also just installed a set of R/T's
Called like 4 different places, was told the same: 35x12.50 17's back-ordered since September. No idea when they'd be available, but everyone had lots of 18 inch versions.
Out of frustration, called local Les Schwab and they had 20 of the 17's in stock. Go figure.
Rap67 did a pretty good job with pics, but I'll throw a couple up of them on my truck. First impressions, as with everything, pics don't do them justice. They look mean in person, a lot like an M/T. A world of difference in just the visual aspect from the stock KO's... these make the stockers look like something off of an Accord.
Extremely quiet, way more than I was expecting. I'm talking seriously hardly any noise at all over my KO's (but granted they had 25,000 miles on them.) To have a tire that looks this gnarly yet is this quiet is awesome. Handling seems the same, really can't tell a difference there. Got them up to 85 on the way home and no issues with wandering or vibration. Took very little weight to balance, the guys at Les Schwab were impressed.
If they get even close to the claimed 45,000 miles, I'm a happy camper. Haven't taken them off-road yet, but I have no worries about their performance there since I don't have access to any kind of deep mud (the only thing I'd think these might suffer with over a true M/T.)
