Toyota 4Runner tires

The 4Runner runs 32 psi. A fitter who works mostly on crossovers reaches for 35 without looking, because 35 is what a crossover takes. Underneath, this is a body-on-frame truck with a truck's door sticker, and that sticker asks for less than the habit.

The sizes Toyota fitted

The N280 generation runs from 2018 through 2024. Sizes and pressures here are confirmed on the 2023 car. The 2025 redesign changed the vehicle and is not covered by this page.

• P265/70R17 on SR5, SR5 Premium, TRD Off-Road, TRD Off-Road Premium, TRD Pro and the 40th Anniversary Edition. This is the volume fitment, and the TRD trims carry an all-terrain tread on it.
• P245/60R20 on Limited and TRD Sport.

One model has two sizes because wheel diameter moves with trim while the vehicle underneath stays the same. On this car the tread pattern matters as much as the size: two 4Runners can both need P265/70R17 and still need different tires, because an all-terrain tread and a highway tread do not wear to the same effective circumference. If the wheels or tires have been changed since the car was built, the placard describes a car that no longer exists in that form. See finding your tire size.

Where the 4Runner puts its placard

The driver's door jamb. Toyota's own tire-pressure guidance says the correct tire pressure specs are on the driver's door jamb sticker. Open the driver's door and look at the edge of the door opening, roughly level with the latch.

That puts the 4Runner among the easy ones. Several other makes use the B-pillar instead, the upright post behind your shoulder when the front door is open, and their owners search the door edge, find nothing and give up. On a Toyota the door edge is right.

How to read it once you find it

The sticker is the Tire and Loading Information placard, and four lines on it matter.

1. Cold pressure, front.
2. Cold pressure, rear. Often different from the front, though on this car it is not.
3. The original tire size. If the tires on the car now are a different size, the placard pressure is no longer a direct answer.
4. The spare, whose figure is printed separately and is usually much higher.

Cold means the car has been parked at least three hours, or driven under about a mile. A tire warms as it rolls and the pressure climbs with it, so a reading taken after a drive is high and will tempt you into letting good air out. Our tire pressure placard guide has the rest.

The verified pressure

32 psi front and rear on P265/70R17. Two independent pressure sources agree on that figure for the volume fitment. One of them also gives 32 front and rear for the 20-inch P245/60R20; the second returned no value for the 20-inch, so that fitment is carried by a single source even though it matches.

Front and rear are equal here, which removes one common mistake. The mistake this car invites instead is the 3 psi of habit. 32 is lower than the crossover norm, and lower than most fitters expect on an SUV this size. Set it to what the sticker says.

Replacing fewer than four

Toyota publishes no numeric tread-depth tolerance for the 4Runner, and no all-four replacement rule is recorded for it. The drivetrain is four-wheel drive, part-time on some trims and full-time on others, and which one you have changes the conversation. A part-time system is normally driven in two-wheel drive on the road, which is forgiving. A full-time system is not.

In practice we look at the other three before fitting one. See how many tires, mixing tire brands and repair against replace.

What changes on a mobile 4Runner fitting

• Direct TPMS, with a sensor in each road wheel, so the work ends with a reset or relearn rather than just a pressure check.
• A full-size matching spare is normally carried under the rear, so a genuine spare swap at the roadside is possible on this vehicle, unlike on cars that carry a space-saver or a sealant kit.
• Two wheel sizes, 17 and 20 inch. Nothing awkward for a driveway job.
• TRD trims on all-terrain tread need the pattern confirmed, not just the size, before a single tire is quoted.

What we do

We supply the tires and fit them where the car is parked. Pressure is set to the figure on your own door jamb sticker rather than to a database, the TPMS is reset or relearned where the vehicle supports it, and the old tires leave with us. Pricing is on our mobile tire replacement page.

Questions people ask

• What psi does a 4Runner take? 32 front and rear on the 17-inch fitment, corroborated by two sources. Read the jamb sticker to confirm your own car.
• Why is it lower than my old SUV? The placard figure is chosen per car, for that car's weight and suspension. A body-on-frame truck does not have to match a crossover.
• Where is the sticker? Driver's door jamb, on the edge of the door opening, level with the latch.
• Does the 20-inch take something different? Only one of our two pressure sources carries the 20-inch, and it gives the same 32. Treat the placard on that car as the authority.
• Can you replace just one tire on a TRD Off-Road? Sometimes. We check the tread on the other three and confirm the tread pattern matches, because a lone new all-terrain next to three worn ones is a driveline problem rather than a tire problem.
• Is the spare full size? Normally yes on this vehicle, carried under the rear, which makes a roadside swap a real option while the replacement is on its way.