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165/70R13

165 mm across the tread, a sidewall 70% of that — 116 mm — on a 13-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 22.1 inches tall.

116 mm sidewall561 mm · 22.1"
Sidewall
4.55"
116 mm
Overall
22.1"
561.2 mm
Circumference
69.4"
1.763 m
Revs per mile
913
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 22.1×6.5R13 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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2 drivers have filed a complaint. 0 of them ended in a crash, and nobody was hurt. Nobody died.

2 of them name what let go, and it is most often tread separation. Sumitomo is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
tread separation2

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 2 were on the front — the end that steers.

What fits instead

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Same 13-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
145/80R1322.1" +0.2 %+0.5 mm60.1 mphside by side
155/75R1322.2" +0.3 %+0.8 mm60.2 mphside by side
175/65R1322.0" -0.6 %-1.8 mm59.6 mphside by side
185/60R1321.7" -1.6 %-4.5 mm59.0 mphside by side
185/65R1322.5" +1.7 %+4.8 mm61.0 mphside by side
145/75R1321.6" -2.4 %-6.8 mm58.6 mphside by side
155/70R1321.5" -2.5 %-7.0 mm58.5 mphside by side
175/70R1322.6" +2.5 %+7.0 mm61.5 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.


185/55R14102 mm sidewall — 12% less
145/70R14102 mm sidewall — 12% less
135/75R14101 mm sidewall — 12% less
155/65R14101 mm sidewall — 13% less
175/60R14105 mm sidewall — 9% less
165/60R1499 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
Firestone MULTIHAWK500B
Goodride SP06500A
Sumitomo Mach 1 R201500A
Nexen SB-702400A
Thunderer REAL400A
Nexen SB-700380A

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
145/80R1330.1 mph50.1 mph70.1 mph10,018
155/75R1330.1 mph50.1 mph70.2 mph10,027
175/65R1329.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,938
185/60R1329.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,840
185/65R1330.5 mph50.8 mph71.2 mph10,169