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165/65R14

165 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 107 mm — on a 14-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 22.4 inches tall.

107 mm sidewall570 mm · 22.4"
Sidewall
4.22"
107 mm
Overall
22.4"
570.1 mm
Circumference
70.5"
1.791 m
Revs per mile
899
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 4.5" and 6" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 158 mm across at the narrow end and 173 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 22.4×6.5R14 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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1 drivers have filed a complaint. 1 of them ended in a crash, hurting 1 person. Nobody died.

1 of them name what let go, and it is most often blowout. Dunlop is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blowout1

Where the wheel is named, 1 of 1 were on the front — the end that steers.

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" +0.4 %+1.3 mm60.3 mphside by side
145/75R1422.6" +0.5 %+1.5 mm60.3 mphside by side
175/60R1422.3" -0.8 %-2.3 mm59.5 mphside by side
185/60R1422.7" +1.3 %+3.8 mm60.8 mphside by side
185/55R1422.0" -1.9 %-5.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
145/70R1422.0" -2.0 %-5.8 mm58.8 mphside by side
155/65R1421.9" -2.3 %-6.5 mm58.6 mphside by side
175/65R1423.0" +2.3 %+6.5 mm61.4 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 — 12% less
145/65R1594 mm sidewall — 12% less
185/65R13120 mm sidewall — 12% more
155/60R1593 mm sidewall — 13% less
175/55R1596 mm sidewall — 10% less
185/50R1593 mm sidewall — 14% less

Tires graded in this size

Longest-lasting tread first. The grade is set by the maker and checked by regulators.


TireTreadwearWet grip
Sure Mach 4 R203540A
Neutral CLASSE PREMIERE460A
HanKOOK Kinergy eco2 (OE)400A
Hankook KInERGy EX400A
Nexen SB-650400A
Bridgestone POTENZA RE92 (OE)360A

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 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,044
145/75R1430.2 mph50.3 mph70.4 mph10,053
175/60R1429.8 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,921
185/60R1430.4 mph50.7 mph70.9 mph10,132
185/55R1429.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,807