**A High-Speed Test: Comparing Tires and Wheels**

In this thrilling experiment, two teams of car enthusiasts, James and Aaron, put their skills to the test by comparing different tires and wheels on two trucks. The goal was to determine which setup would perform better in various driving conditions.

As they began the initial approach, James commented that "Looking good, nice and straight. Keep it straight." He explained that they were about to see how the tires flexed, a crucial aspect of the test. Aaron, who was behind the wheel, responded with a nod, acknowledging the importance of tire flexibility. The moment of truth had arrived, and the trucks began to move.

With James guiding from the passenger seat, the team pushed their truck to the limit, testing its acceleration and traction. "Give it some beans," James instructed Aaron, as they accelerated down a steep incline. The tires gripped the surface, holding steady under immense pressure. "Yes! That's right," James exclaimed, as Aaron expertly navigated the challenging terrain.

The test was not without its challenges, however. A massive gap appeared on the road ahead, flanked by rocks that threatened to derail their progress. The team worked together to find a solution, with James suggesting a different approach. "We've got a massive gap here," he said. "There are rocks, but they're not somewhere we can hit them." Aaron responded by expertly maneuvering the truck, using his skills to avoid any obstacles.

Despite their best efforts, the trucks still faced difficulties, and the team encountered some setbacks. The tires failed to perform as expected, and the vehicles became stuck in the same spot where they had previously gotten stuck. James was frustrated with the lack of communication between him and Aaron, stating that "I think it's a lack of communication. There's some sort of breakdown." Aaron acknowledged his mistake, admitting that he wasn't the best communicator.

After reassessing their strategy, the team decided to give Aaron another chance at driving the buff horseshoe. James instructed Aaron to throttle through the section, more and more, until they reached the end. The truck performed admirably, with only a slight deviation from its intended path. "Just a hair," James noted, as Aaron skillfully navigated the final stretch.

As the test drew to a close, James asked Nolan about his thoughts on whether more expensive tires mean better performance. Nolan replied that "I'm not exactly sure James, the uphill articulation tests, both tires performed wonderfully." He also pointed out that their final tasks, including the buff horseshoe, showed no significant differences between the two sets of tires.

When it came to measuring road noise, the team used a decibel meter and found only a slight gain in sound levels. Similarly, when testing the trucks on declines, Aaron noted that "there was some sliding," but ultimately managed to stop halfway down the hill. In contrast, James reported that his truck slid further down.

In conclusion, the test revealed that while more expensive tires might provide some benefits, they don't necessarily mean better performance. Both sets of tires performed well in various tests, and the budget option turned out to be very good indeed. The team's experience also highlighted the importance of communication and teamwork in overcoming challenges on the road.

As the experiment came to an end, James reflected on the big takeaway from their experience: "More expensive does not mean more better, not that much better." He emphasized that it was possible to have a lot of fun in a truck on a budget, citing Aaron's impressive driving skills as a testament to this point. The team looked forward to their next adventure, which would involve reinforcing their trucks with armor and fabricating new components from scratch.

For now, the trucks were being modified with precut bumpers and skid plates, courtesy of James' instructions. However, Aaron was taking matters into his own hands, designing and fabricating new parts from scratch. The Low truck's owners were working on a custom solution, while the Hi truck team was busy welding together pre-fabricated armor plating.

As Nolan grunted in anticipation of their next project, James encouraged viewers to subscribe to their channel for more exciting experiments and adventures. With a final farewell, the team signed off, leaving fans eagerly anticipating their next episode.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(blowtorch flame hissing)(man shrieking loudly)(tires skidding mud)(beep)- $800 all-terrain tires!- Versus $1,500 all-terrain tires!- Does more expensivereally mean more better?- Let's find out.(upbeat music)- Huge thanks to eBay Motorsfor sponsoring this seasonof HiLow.- The whole season!- With their help, we've been ableto find all kinds of parts,to turn 'Low Truck' intoAmerica's favorite off-roader.- But, they've also been ahuge help with 'Hi Truck' too!eBay Motors provides all the tools to buyor sell your vehiclesafely and securely online.They even, can send outlicensed third party inspectorsto verify the vehicle that you are buying,isn't just some turd (fart noise).It's what we actually useto make sure we got a Tacomagood enough to be called 'Hi Truck',America's favorite off-roader!- You can't just stealmy slogan like that.- Never heard you say that before.eBay is invested in makingthe automotive sales cyclehonest, trustworthy, and downright secure.So, you don't have to worry about thievesand scammers when you're ordering parts.- And we ordered a ton of parts off eBay,everything from wheelsand tires, suspension,whether you're spendinghigh or spending low,eBay Motors has something in your budget.- So be sure to check out eBay Motorsand download the app forall your automotive sale needs.Now let's get back toAmerica's favorite off-roader.- Low truck.- Hi truck.(both scoff smugly)- Low truck.- Hi truck, dude.- Low truck.- Hi truck!- Look at Low truck!- Look at Hi truck!- This is-- Do you even have one of these?- I do not, but I do have very nice paint.(tires bouncing successively)- Yours sounds like (beep).- We bought two nearlyidentical Toyota Tacomas,and we've been modifying themto be fun daily drivers thatyou can take literallyanywhere, (metal grinding)-- Except for the ocean.- One Tacoma gets expensive parts. Mine.And one of them gets cheap parts.- Then, we test them to seewhich components are worthspending your hard earned money on.- The primary goal of newoff-road tires is obviouslyto increase traction,but there are a bunch ofother factors affectedby new tires like handling,vibration, noise, clearance,and of course, steez.Hi truck is getting a setof Nitto Ridge grappler.That's right, Ridge grappler All-Terrains,at $342 per tire.- And Low truck is gettingthese Kenda Klever All-Terrains,which are less than halfthe price at $147 per tire.- Frugal!Right off the bat,I think yours look likethey're from World War IIand mine look like they'refrom The Terminator war.(vocal pistol noises)- Since we're upgrading to beefier tires,we need to upgrade our wheels as well.- Hi truck is getting these17-inch KMC Tank Beadlock Wheels- And Low truck is getting aset of 17-inch Vision Wheels.- Each of these KMCsare almost $500 a pop.- The Visions are also $500,for the entire set.- For the entire set!So why do these costsfour times as much money?First thing, these are lighterbecause they're made out of aluminum alloyand these are straight up steel.These wheels have Beadlocks,which means this outer rim comes off.It's held on with a bunch of boltsand we can sandwich the tirein between these two surfaces,which means we can getthrough a lot more stuff.- Cool.- So both of our wheeland tire setups are goingto look really great.They're going to performbetter than stock,but will Hi truck's wheel-and-tire-comboperform three times as well,because it does cost three times as much?(heavy trap music)(plastic crumpling)Yeah!!- Just like with everything in life,with wheels and tires it's importantto establish some clear goals.- Now we're looking to improve traction,improve our reliability,maybe gain some clearance,and hopefully have a relatively decenton-road experience like on the highway.I hope these aren't too noisy.You've heard trucks onthe highway chopping upfrom behind you.(both imitating truck engines)- It's enough to drive a man insane.- So we did some research onlineand it turns out thatthe Tacoma can basicallytake a 33-inch tire before you haveto start modifyingthings like the firewall.That also takes intoaccount our three-inch lift.You can't do it just on stock suspension,but once you lift,you get a little bit more room.We want to stuff the biggesttire we can under this truckso we get a bigger contactpatch at the bottom of our tire,which will let us climb more stuff.Contact patch is the amountof tire touching the actual ground.- Cool thing about off-roadtires that you can air them downso you can actuallyincrease your contact patch,the less air that's in the tire.If you blow these thingsup or highway use,you know, like to 55 PSI,the only thing touching theroad is going to be like alittle section like this bigbut if you air them down,you're going to get abigger contact patch.- See all that contact?(dramatic upbeat music)With all that said,let's finally put wheels in tires!They individually wrapped the hardware,so we're going to spend a couplehours unwrapping hardware.One cool thing abouthaving Beadlock wheelsis that we don't need to go to a tire shopto get these things mounted.We don't need to use a tire machine.All we need is some soapywater, some patience,some friendship and some smarts.Okay, got that down all the way around.So now we just got toput our ring in place,by hand, manually.It's like 200 boltsprobably in a star pattern,torquing them to differentspecs over and over and over.- So originally theplan was that we'd haveto take these to a shopand just get them mountedlike a bunch of chumps,but Eddie and Aaron thinkthat we can do this ourselvesin our parking lot.- Yo, straight up (beep) those guys.- Honestly though, I don'tlike either of those guys.- Hi team thinks we're going to a shopbut really we're goingto get sweaty out hereand do it ourselves.They're going to be totally pranked!(chuckling) So stupid.- We're going to use this torchand some brake cleanerto inflate this tire.We don't advise you guys do this at home.It can actually be very dangerous,but I've done this quite a bitand we think we can getit done in a safe manner.So we would like you guysto see how that's done.- You guys know that Iwould never risk my healthfor entertainment purposes.- First things first, youwant to put a valve stem in.I've actually made the mistake in the pastwhere you install thetire, get the valve stem,and then you gotta redo it.After you install the valve stem,we're going to get some lubrication,which is just going to be some dish soapand we're going to pushit on, give her a flop.- There we go.- You're going to use crowbarsand pry until we get the inside diameterof the tire over this lip.- I just feel like we'regoing to damage our wheels.- Well, you've got it onthe inside of the lip,so you want him to see it.- Oh okay. There we go.- There's a little bit, but-- Yeah, I know.- It's okay.- How are you feeling Nolan?- I mean, these are brand new wheelsand I can already tell if these are-if these were wheels I paid for,I'd take it to the shop.- But if you're on a budget and like-- A budget? It's like $100to get your tires mounted.- You sound likea Hi Team Boy right now.- Budget does not have animpact on doing things correctlyor how like, makingsure things aren't nice.- So, no tire shop?- Totally.- Why are you guys evendoing it? Just for the video?- No...- (laughs) Okay.(air spraying)- All right. And then uh-make sure you're ready to-- Yeah, yeah, yeah.- This is like one of thoselike F1 pit-stop things.- I'm ready, dude. Rock and roll.- Let's do it, dude.- Okay.- Break clean. 1, 2, 3.Leave a little trail, a break clean.Hit it with the torch.(man shrieks)(flame igniting)(tire squeaking)Come on, come on, come on!Yes, Nolan!Oh, no, no.Keep going, keep going,keep going, keep going.It's not gonna explode. You're good.You're good.- I just, I've never seena tire wall do that dude.- It's okay.Dude, that was, that was dope.- It was pretty cool.- It was sick.- That was pretty sick and we getto do it four more times.(tire squeaking)- All right, so now thatboth teams have their wheelsand tires mounted up,let's take a good look at themand compare them to each other.- Gotta say, your guys'looking pretty tough,definitely the more expensive wheel.- These look like different counties.- Yeah, (laughs).Our tread depth looks very similar.- Yeah, very similar chonk.- The stock wheel andtire weighs 58 pounds.- Dang!- That's gnarly dude.- Ohh!- Oh my god!- 85.8 (laughs).- 85.8.- 85.8 on the Low truck.- Oh my God. 95.9.- Wow!- Hundred pounds a corner.- Holy crap, that is so weird.This is so weird.- This is so backwards.- Adding a lot of weight to that areawill make things handle a little bit worseand make them feel an awful lot slower,but that's kind of okay for trucks.So even though we were bothable to get our tires onto thewheels here by ourselves, which is cool.We still both have to go toa shop to have them balanced.- Kind of defeats the purpose,- But we did see howcapable the trucks werewith the stock wheel and tire.- Unreal, yeah unreal.So with these tires, I'mexcited to see what they can do.- I was nervous.- They're going to be too good.Are we going to be too powerful gentlemen?Might be in over ourheads. Never stop climbing?- And we are back at Gormanfor yet another test.- We're doing a hill climb.Now this hill behind me,as you can see is not just a hill.It's full of all kindsof crags and crannies.- Cracks and grannies?- Make you lose traction,basically it's very hard to go up.The first try is with the stock tiresthat we're going to put ournew wheels and tires on.Go back at it, find out for you guys,how much of a differencebig-old all-terrains make.- And how much better ourmore expensive ones are!- Yeah.- Good Luck(revving engine)- Keep going buddy, keep going.(excited laughter)(Nolan screeching)- No way!(indistinct)(failure horn plays)- Well, it didn't make it.- Nope. Don't do this. (overlap talking)- It's in the car! It's in the car!Wow. We almost made it.- We both got our new tires,let's see if a little bitmore traction helps them out.- Alright boys.- Go get them.- Yep. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.Oh yeah. Aaron gun it.Gun it baby. Gun it.- Stayed up. Stayed up.- See?- Would you like to driveup this hill with me?- I would love to.- Yes.- Let's go baby.- Yes.Let's go.- All right James, you know what to do.Just gotta goose alittle harder at the end.- The approach is good.He's riding the spine.- Yup, yup. All right.Now start hitting that gas.Yup. Yup.- He's crossing the hill. No problem.- No big deal at all.- Correct. Mac and cheese, EasyMac, food in the microwave,Mom's going to be home. Shesaid, she's gonna be on a diet.(mumbling)- What is he talking about?- So both trucks made itup. Although there was a lotof slippage and it got kindagnarly towards the top.Aaron seems to think that if we air downthe tire pressure a little bit,we'll have an easier time of it.Zach and I kind of disagreebut I don't know if we geta bigger contact patch,technically we might have more traction.So we're going to goahead and give it a try.Last time we ran this, it was at 35and now we're going totry it at around 15.Now that's one of the goodthings about Beadlock.These guys can't go as lowas we can and if they do,there's a better chance that they might DBthe tire leaving them strandedon a hill or a mountain.You know what happens ona mountain after dark.(dramatic music)- There you go!Dude, no wheel slippage atall! Are you kidding me?- Not even a problem.- This is amazing! (Cheering)Did someone order somelobster with a side of butter?- Dude, look at that. That's sick.That's what I'm talking about.- Oh yeah dude.- All right, baby.- No wheel spin. Youdon't hear the wheel spin.Dude, that was way easieraired down, are you kidding me.- Oh yeah, oh yeah.- Well as it turns out,that felt way better.- Yeah. We're mature enoughto admit when we are wrongand that was way easier.- We felt like we had gobs of grit,it was like driving on tank tracks.- For our next challenge,we decided to take it back to the daysof the Neanderthals with a classic game ofTug O' War!Loser washes the winners truck.Three, two, one, go!(intense rock music begins)- Keep going.- Just what I thought (indistinct).- Oh Jesus.Oh God, hold that up.(truck engines cut)- We're both stuck.- Yeah.I think we're going to haveto do this on dry land.- (laughs) Wow, (beep).(tires grinding dirt)- Find some grit! Find some grit!Wasted some rubber.- I don't know if welearned anything from that.- Well, we learned that we bothgot pretty equally good tiresand you spent a lot less.- That is true.(upbeat music)- So we're back at the buffhorseshoe with our new tires.We're going to come back tothis obstacle every week,and our goal is to makeit all the way around.We've already attempted this.Let's see who can get further today.Who wants to go first?Me, let's do it!(James screaming)You communicate.- I thought you were-- This is my good hand!- Here's where Pumphreyfell off last time!Right in this area, wheel came off,and that was all she wrote.Jesus.So really, we got to get past thisto improve on our last attempt,but I'm not going to behappy unless we make itall the way around.- All right. Here comesthe initial approach.- Looking good, nice andstraight. Keep it straight.You're going to see howthe tires flex, you know.- Wamp, wamp.- They legitimatelygrab the surface.- Yep. Yeah.- Moment of truth area.- Yeah, here we go!- Give it some beans.Okay, perfect.Yeah, yeah, yeah.- Yes!- Okay, okay, okay.- Yes, James!(car engine rumbling)(inspirational music plays)- Okay, that's right.- Yeah, this is probably the hardest part.We've got a massive gap here.There are rocks, but they'renot somewhere we can hit them.So gas time.(car parts clunking)- Yeah, sweet as it goes bro.Flawless execution!- Really nice, bro.- You know the differencebetween me and you?I make this look good.(tires screeching)- Hard, hard, hard, hard, hard,hard, hard, hard.- The first tricky bit.- Hard left, hard left.- He's going to have to have alot of grip with those tires.- I can't turn.- Gas, gas, gas.- And they fell off.- Did we least make it furtherthan what the stock tires?- No.- No? Okay.- They're stuck in the samespot we got stuck before.I don't think it's the tires.I think it's a lack of communication.There's some sort of breakdown.Nolan gets very frustrated.Aaron's not the best communicator.- We're going to give him a second shotat the buff horseshoebecause I really thinkthat they can make it.- I need you to consistently throttlethrough this next section.More and more and more and moreand more and more and more.- Stop.- That looks pretty good.- That's pretty good.- All right, we arepast where I was before.So that's a good sign.- Hard right.(dramatic percussion music)Just a hair. Not that much! Great.Go, go, go.- And out with a flare,a little off the side.- If this were the Olympics,I think that would havebeen a DQ, but it's not.This is HiLow and we're all palsand we're proud of Nolan and Aaron.- This guy put in work right now.- We did it!- Good job bro.- So Nolan, does moreexpensive mean more better?- I'm not exactly sure James,the uphill articulation tests,both tires performed wonderfully.No real difference there.Then our final tasks, the buff horseshoe,both trucks made it through just fine.No need for the Beadlocks on low truck.I'm not convinced that you needto spend twice the cash for the tires.- Okay. So I agree withyou on all of those points,but during the buff horseshoe Hi truckobviously had more traction.On the declines, I was able tostop halfway down the tubes.You just kind of slid down.- Yeah, there was some sliding.- We measured road noisewith a decibel meter.We only gained maybe a decibel.- Same with Low truck, Iwas actually very surprised.- Yeah. Usually when upgradinganything on a car or truck,you expect some sort of compromise,but really with thesetires on both trucks,there wasn't any.I have to say, I mightprefer the look of Low truck.The tires on Hi truckare a little bro-ey like,I feel like I shouldget a flat-brimmed hatand a monster sticker for my truck.- Yeah.- So Nolan, which ones would you buy?- I think I would keep the Low setup.That package has proven itself to not DBat pretty low pressures.I think 15 is the limit,but for the price,the performance so worth it really.- I think I would gowith Low truck's tires.- Okay.- But I would go with Hi truck's wheelsso that I can have thatsweet, sweet Beadlock.So the big takeaway ismore expensive does meanmore better, not that much better,and the budget option isstill very, very good.You can have a lot of funin a truck on a budget.Thank you guys so muchfor watching this video.We got another one coming up next week.We've been bashing thesethings into a bunch of rocks.So we're going to reinforce themwith some really sick armor.Hi truck is getting someprecut bumpers and skid plateswith instructions.We do have to weld it all together.The Low truck, Aaronand Nolan are designingand fabricating theirown stuff from scratchit's gonna be very, very exciting.- (Nolan grunting) Notlooking forward to it.- Make sure you don't miss it.Hit the subscribe button.- Be kind.- I love you.- See you next time.