- What's goin' on guys, Fuller here from Custom Offsets,
Custom Offsets TV on the YouTube,
and today we're bringing you a very
highly anticipated video.
So we're comparing two of,
probably the most popular hybrid tires on the market,
we actually did a full comparison
between all of our favorites that we offer
on the website at customoffsets.com
so you can click the little icon
that just popped up over there
so you can go watch that video
if you're looking for the full comparison,
but if you're here to compare the Nitto Ridge Grappler
versus the Toyo Open Country R/T, you're in the right spot.
So these two are probably the most common when it comes to,
it's a name brand that people have heard about
and they recognize, people know Nitto and Toyo,
and some people are aware, some people aren't,
so I'll just mention it that Nitto
and Toyo are essentially,
I'm not gonna say they're the same company,
but they're sister companies.
They're ran by the same people,
manufactured in the same plants, all that jazz.
So they really are a very similar tire in many aspects,
but different in a lot of other ones.
So both the tires that I have here,
this one is the Nitto Ridge Grappler,
this is a 35 by 12.5 R20,
and we're comparing that to the exact same
Toyo Open Country R/T 35 12.5 20.
They're both F load tires,
which is probably what I'll jump into right away is,
it used to be you could get
the Nitto Ridge Grappler in an F load,
and the R/T didn't have an F load, but now they do.
So pay attention when you're comparing these
and shopping for tires,
that you're comparing F load to F load or E load to E load.
Both of these are 12 ply rated tires as well,
so if you do a lot of towing or you have a 2500 or a 3500,
your F250, your F350, those heavy duty trucks
and you need a heavy duty tire, these are options for you,
you can run these things
at 80 pounds of pressure if you need to,
like for the rear of your trucks if you do a lot of hauling.
Now I think that the load index comes out
to like 36 or 3800 pounds or something like that,
so they're definitely both very strong tires.
Where they differ though,
is the Ridge Grappler is actually built
on an all-terrain platform,
whereas the R/T is built on a mud tire platform.
So the differences you see here
is the Ridge Grappler is gonna be two ply construction,
and the R/T is three ply construction.
So why does that matter?
Well a hybrid tire, which is what both of these fall into
as far as category-wise,
is kinda the blend of your all-terrain
and your mud tire,
they come together to make the hybrid tire.
So you get the best mileage out of them on the road,
the least amount of road noise.
But then if you wanna take them off-road you can,
they're still definitely strong enough
and durable enough for that,
and they have big enough shoulder blocks
that you do still have traction off road.
But like I said as far as differences go,
this being built on the all-terrain platform
is not quite as aggressive
on the shoulder blocks as the R/T.
So you see they have like variable pitch blocks,
and what I mean by that is,
on the very outside shoulder blocks here,
one side of it will be cut down,
and the other side will be full height.
Tread depth-wise, very very similar,
not even enough for me to mention
any sort of differences between the two,
depending on what size you get,
might be a little different.
The Ridge Grappler,
although it is built on the all-terrain platform
doesn't actually come with a mileage warranty.
Now Nitto was saying for the longest time,
that's because they know that you're
gonna actually take this tire off-road
so they're not going to offer one on it,
but you still do get a full manufacturer warranty,
so if there's any, any ever,
ever any defects, there you go,
you'd still be covered underneath that.
Interesting fact about the ridge grappler
is that the side wall, there's two options for you,
so you have one side that I call like the baja style,
which is all straight cut side wall,
the opposite side is more of a transformer-looking side wall
where you have these angled pieces that come inwards,
then a straight up and down cut on the side there.
And it's actually a lot more aggressive,
even though this is on the all-terrain platform
than the R/T,
which is some of the feedback
that I gave to Toyo when I went
and visited there for when they develop the next generation.
So so far there's only one version
of the Toyo Open Country R/T.
Like I said, built on the mud terrain platform,
three ply construction, side wall on this one,
still you have two different side wall options,
but they're significantly less aggressive.
One side has like these little ribbed edges,
and then the opposite side
it's like almost the exact same style,
but none of the ribbing.
So one's more aggressive, one's less aggressive,
but those are the major differences between these two.
As far as price point goes,
oftentimes if you're comparing the similar sizes,
both the same load index, load range,
you're gonna find that they're very very
similar in price point.
And it is neat that these tires
are actually manufactured in the United States,
so I actually had a chance to tour the Toyo facility
down in White Georgia and see these things get made.
When it comes to warranty on the Toyo Open Country R/T,
depending on what size you get,
they offer up to I think it's a 50000 mile warranty,
I know on the 35 12.5 20 it's actually 45000,
so you do get that mileage warranty
on the road with these things.
And it's not uncommon,
we've seen people with proper rotations
to actually get 50, 55000 miles out of both of these tires,
they both wear really good.
Especially, like I said, in the F load.
E load works really nice too, just make sure that,
if you have a heavy duty truck,
you're not putting a light duty tire on it
cause that will eat through them relatively quick.
For weight comparison too,
again they're both very very similar.
Ridge Grappler weighs in at 73 pounds for this size,
I think 73.5 for this size,
and the Open Country R/T is 71 pounds.
So if you're really concerned about weight,
the R/T is a little bit lighter.
But both very good options
for that person that spends a lot of time on the road,
drives a little bit off-road,
needs a heavy duty tire if you're doing any sort of towing
or anything like that, these are two really good options.
Like I said there's more of these on the market too
that we did the full in-depth video on,
but these are probably the two most popular.
If you want that aggressive styling
as far as like the shoulder blocks go
and the tread pattern goes,
and you want that MT construction,
R/T is gonna be the tire for you.
If you want a little less road noise,
you spend a lot more time on the road,
then maybe the Ridge Grappler
would be a good option for you.
So either one of those,
we've got both of them on the website
if you want all the full specs,
right down to how many revolutions per mile,
you can get those at customoffsets.com
and they'll all be on there.
Ridge Grappler has like 81 sizes,
Open Country has a little bit less, like 40 or 50 sizes.
So pretty much options
for just about any vehicle that you got.
Peace.
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