Karma

We have the semi luxury of taking ownership of my father-in-law's 1992 Toyota Dolphin, along with the insurance, licensing, and all the upkeep. Looking forward to years of retirement pleasure with our Dolphin, but need to first convince hubby we need new tires. The ones on the Dolphin are 13 years old (we know exactly what year they were purchased, as it was the only time we were allowed to borrow it, when we had a family from France here, who had hosted our daughter in the Alps one summer.). Early on a trip around Washington State, two tires blew, and we had to replace them on the road. My hubby not only seems to forget that those tires looked fine when they blew, he wants to now take out the studs on some beautiful Swedish quality snow tires that also came with the camper......the dot codes show that these tires must be over 21 now, able to drink legally.....so we can drive through mud and dirt, snow and mountains. I can't believe we let three very responsible 20 year olds (oxymoron) drive the Dolphin to the Rockies for a ski bum vacation last year on those tires. I think they are more responsible than their parents and grandparents, at least just as lucky as us. By the way, thank you to all the people who shared their expertise in small Toyota Motorhome tires. After reading the posts, I now seem to know more than most tire store employees, who have suggested ST tires, P tires, and changing our wheels to 15 inch. (I am trying to find some tires that will handle gravel, mountains, snow, and a trip to Alaska in the next few years.)

Thank you so much for this concise and very complete explanation of tires. We are just trying to replace 13 year old tires on our Dolphin, and this info is great.

Thank you for the post, and for Linda for pinning this. We just bought some e-bikes and were looking for a way to put a hitch on. Too much for us now, but we have a former neighbor who comes up every year to see family, and loves to stay at our place and do projects. This looks right up his alley.

I hope to visit Maine, its on my list.

Thank you.

Yes, it is a 3 L V-6 manual transmission, 5 speed. Now I need to learn why its a Unicorn.

We just retired and are lucky to take over the use (and costs) of my father-in-laws Toyota Dolphin, 1992, but the chassis is either 1990 (per father in law) or 1991 (per dealership), but not having much luck in finding places that can work on the clutch and brakes, (and was told by the Toyota dealership that we have to replace the timing belt every 6 years, and wondered about that frequency). I would love to hear about any auto repair shops that you use and can recommend, that will repair these small motor homes. We are looking forward to driving it to all states, so any state info will be welcome. We thought the manual clutch was going out, as slipping when on hills, but the dealership said the clutch was fine. Kinda scratching our heads about that one.