I hadn't thought of doing that before so i went onto carfax listings, and saw some closer to 100k miles, started looking through the free carfax reports and kinda get the impression at least on the small sample size i looked at that they had a number of serious problems prior to selling or...
There seems to be a growing amount of people that have or reported misc electrical issues in these cars. Some have reported it to be the factory battery causing the issues but many on Facebook and reddit never seem to ever report back if their issue was fixed or what it was.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/tirecalc?tires=245-65r17-235-70r17
guess it depends on your definition of bigger. It’s skinnier. There’s also limited options In that size for what it’s worth as well.
I have had tires that were not the same size as stock installed at firestone before, they just asked me to confirm that i realized they weren't the same size as stock and they went ahead and installed them. Likely a local management thing. Just call another tire store and tell them what you want...