I Think My 2025 Toyota Tundra Platinum TRD With a 3-inch Lift Looks Like A Cartoon Truck, and That It Skipped Leg Day

Common, the dude saw the thing on the lot and bought it. He literally saw and then bought the thing. I mean he had to realize at that time he was going to need to do a wheel/tire upgrade to balance it out. He has nobody to blame but himself so please with the comment of, "imagine spending $70,000 on a new truck and then..."

Stock tires do look small on a new gen tundra. I have a 2025 limted trd off road. With. 3.5 inch lift. You do have to consider tire width and the offset. With a 35 inch tire. I see some equal this to like a 295. This is not accurate. The first numbers in a tire size like 295x60x18 is the width of the tire not the height. The second number is the percentage so 60% of 295 aguves the wheel the height. The last digit is the wheel size I went with a 35x12.5 x18 with. Plus 20 offest. The lower the offset which can go negative like a 0 or -20 offest brings the tire and wheel out further from under the wheel well. The further out you go also will cause rub to the wheel wheel mudflap area as well. The plus 20 worked well with little modifications for the rubbing. Removed mud flaps and removed the crash block. 2 bolts and install aftermarket mufldflaps. Roc blocks to be exact. Fuel wheels covert 18x9 with a plus 20 offset nitto ridge grappler tires 35x12.5x 18.

My new prius came with 17 inch...I upgraded to 20 inch wheels ...and 225/35/wr20 Bridgestone runflats... tire rack is clearly the best place for wheel and tire packages.....but keep in mind you need the tire pressure sensors in the new tires and the dealer will charge you 200 to reprogram your TPS and the TPS will set you back like 35 bucks each.

With all due respect for the purchaser. If the truck was new stock purchased from a dealer, why bother buying the truck? I am a two-time Toyota tundra owner. My current SR5 tundra does not have a lift kit. I specifically looked for a truck without any lift kit in the new/used category. My first tundra was a black 2011 SR5 package. I loved that truck and had so many compliments on it. I can't even count them. Never had any problems with it except when it came to suspension. When I sold the vehicle it had $275,000 mi. Why did I finally get rid of it? Two issues. First was the truck was old and had factory parts including transmission. Which never gave me any problems. What was replaced? Steering and too many tie rods to even remember. The truck had a 3 and 1/2-in lift kit that was aftermarket installed by the previous owner. Long story short, I was told by mechanic after mechanic the after market lift kit was changing the stress levels in the suspension. I try to be a responsible driver and never did anything crazy to abuse the truck. However, every bump and every pothole in the road, even the smaller ones would send me back to the mechanic to get new tie rods. It rarely ever kept alignment because of the same issue. The cost to replace the tie rods over time. And my steering was at least $6,000. Back to the intent of this article. I ended up mounting a full set of nito 35s. The truck's look was incredible because of the tires. Problem was lowest price per tire I could find was about $450. So that's almost $2,000 for a tire set. When the 35s were new, any hard turns I would make would rub against the plastic front wheel well guard on the front of the truck. Again, tundras with a lift kit look incredible, but don't expect to get by not having the right tire size to fill wheel well.

Looks better with a 17 inch rim.

I mean i feel stupid for having to say this but this is generally why people upgrade rim size... i mean its kinda common sense knowledge that if you mod your truck and lift it your going to have more space between the sidewall edge of your tire and the fender.. i mean this would happen on any truck🤷

Sorry for your troubles--the result of more $$ than sense??

The whole truck itself is cartoonish. Bigger wheels and tires won’t help that.

I am surprised that you did not know what you were purchasing. There are pictures of that lift on stock tires. Be glad is was not with the SR5 and 18" tires. The folks that buy that lift package already planned on changing the rubber and wheels.

If this dude only paid $70 for a lifted platinum, he needs to shut his face. On top of that, he bought the truck just the way it looked. Why would you by a lifted truck that still had stock wheels? That's crazy dumb. I don't pity this idiot.

Good news. To 98% of people it looks like (yawn) very other truck.

I mean ......your obviously gonna have to put bigger tires and wheels with a 3" lift.....Stupid article

Honestly, first picture looks more like a 6inch lift... my 24 offroad package has the 3inch lift and it looks way more proportionate than that, with the factory wheel/tire setup

I think the truck itself does not look good. They copied the nissan frontier style for the tacoma as well, another pos in my opinion. My old 2017 will 1still run circles around that pos goofy looking wannabe truck. A truck for city people who wish they could be country.

You dont have to buy new wheels.. you made the whole story sound like you were bamboozled. When in fact, anyone who's ever owned a truck knows what happens when you lift it. If you buy a new truck and have a lift put on, you automatically put the biggest tires it can handle on the factory wheel, WITHOUT CRYING! Or you buy a different wheels and put the tire that fits that wheels offset to the lift you bought. Stop complaining and spend the money. Or go back to driving a Yugo or Yaris.
Sincerely..
A 30 Year long Truck Purchaser!

It does in fact look like a pavement princess. It says "I want too look tough and rugged but frequently will be parked outside of Target and the nail salon".

Why complain? Did it change looks after you bought it? Why buy something and complain about the looks thats your bad no one else.