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Sidewall

165/75R16

165 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 124 mm — on a 16-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 25.7 inches tall.

124 mm sidewall654 mm · 25.7"
Sidewall
4.87"
124 mm
Overall
25.7"
653.9 mm
Circumference
80.9"
2.054 m
Revs per mile
783
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 25.7×6.5R16 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 16-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
155/80R1625.8" +0.1 %+0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
175/70R1625.6" -0.4 %-1.3 mm59.8 mphside by side
185/65R1625.5" -1.1 %-3.5 mm59.4 mphside by side
185/70R1626.2" +1.8 %+5.8 mm61.1 mphside by side
155/75R1625.2" -2.3 %-7.5 mm58.6 mphside by side
175/75R1626.3" +2.3 %+7.5 mm61.4 mphside by side
145/80R1625.1" -2.4 %-7.8 mm58.6 mphside by side
165/70R1625.1" -2.5 %-8.3 mm58.5 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.


185/60R17111 mm sidewall — 10% less
195/70R15137 mm sidewall — 10% more
145/75R17109 mm sidewall — 12% less
185/75R15139 mm sidewall — 12% more
155/70R17109 mm sidewall — 12% less
175/65R17114 mm sidewall — 8% less

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
155/80R1630.0 mph50.0 mph70.1 mph10,008
175/70R1629.9 mph49.8 mph69.7 mph9,962
185/65R1629.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,893
185/70R1630.5 mph50.9 mph71.2 mph10,176
155/75R1629.3 mph48.9 mph68.4 mph9,771