Been said before. LT if you tow or off-road enough to justify the need for tougher construction (at expense of weight, some efficiency and dollars). SL and XL tires are fine, as long as they meet load requirements. All of Rivian's factory tires for the R1 are 116. Remember, DT sales staff get commission, be weary of up-sale.
I understand the premise of LT vs SL. I'm searching for the anecdotal evidence in this forum, if people are more happy with the LT or the SL, for this specific tire, i.e. If there is an appreciable difference between their efficiency, comfort, road noise, or performance.
You won't find whole lot of data on the SL. They literally just became available around mid-December. Not enough time to log enough miles to give meaningful data, some initial data and impressions are in this thread. 2.0X mi/kWh. Smooth. Good on snow. The rest, what you are trying to validate [against or for DT reco], boils down to fundamental differences between LT and SL. I've not seen people saying they chose the LT Grappler G3. Most running LT are running the Toyos because that's been available longer and this tire wasn't even on their radar. I do recall one member saying they were talked into [by their DT] buying the LT Toyos over the SL for the same reason/motivations.
Yeah, some serious buyer's remorse here. I'm averaging 1.69 compared to my lifetime 1.86.
I just hit 2000 on mine as well. My efficiency is worse than yours. I’m at 1.84. We had some cold during part of that, but it hasn’t been cold at all for the past couple weeks, which is when I got a lot of those miles in. My OEMs had a lifetime 2.14.
I’m going to check my tire PSI tomorrow morning before I head out. I’ve notice 1 or 2 psi on these tires make a huge difference in efficiency. Due to the colder weather we are having in SoCa, I had 2 tires at 47psi and 2 at 46psi this morning.
