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Sidewall

135/80R14

135 mm across the tread, a sidewall 80% of that — 108 mm — on a 14-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 22.5 inches tall.

108 mm sidewall572 mm · 22.5"
Sidewall
4.25"
108 mm
Overall
22.5"
571.6 mm
Circumference
70.7"
1.796 m
Revs per mile
896
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 3.5" and 5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 128 mm across at the narrow end and 143 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 22.5×5.3R14 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 14-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
155/70R1422.5" +0.2 %+0.5 mm60.1 mphside by side
145/75R1422.6" +0.3 %+0.8 mm60.2 mphside by side
145/70R1422.0" -2.3 %-6.5 mm58.6 mphside by side
135/75R1422.0" -2.4 %-6.8 mm58.6 mphside by side
155/65R1421.9" -2.5 %-7.3 mm58.5 mphside by side
125/80R1421.9" -2.8 %-8.0 mm58.3 mphside by side
145/80R1423.1" +2.8 %+8.0 mm61.7 mphside by side
155/75R1423.2" +2.9 %+8.3 mm61.7 mphside by side

Same height, different rim

Bigger rim, same overall height. Sharper steering, harsher ride, and far less rubber between your wheel and the next pothole.


135/70R1595 mm sidewall — 13% less
145/65R1594 mm sidewall — 13% less
125/75R1594 mm sidewall — 13% less
155/60R1593 mm sidewall — 14% less
145/85R13123 mm sidewall — 14% more
165/75R13124 mm sidewall — 15% more

If you fit something taller

A taller tire covers more ground per turn, so the needle reads low and the odometer counts short. Over ten thousand miles on the dial, the last column is what you really drove.


Fitted insteadReads 30Reads 50Reads 70Real miles per 10,000 shown
155/70R1430.1 mph50.1 mph70.1 mph10,017
145/75R1430.1 mph50.1 mph70.2 mph10,026
145/70R1429.3 mph48.9 mph68.4 mph9,773
135/75R1429.3 mph48.8 mph68.3 mph9,764
155/65R1429.2 mph48.7 mph68.2 mph9,746