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Sidewall

175/65R16

175 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 114 mm — on a 16-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 25.0 inches tall.

114 mm sidewall634 mm · 25.0"
Sidewall
4.48"
114 mm
Overall
25.0"
633.9 mm
Circumference
78.4"
1.991 m
Revs per mile
808
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 5" and 6" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 170 mm across at the narrow end and 180 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 25.0×6.9R16 — 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
165/70R1625.1" +0.6 %+1.8 mm60.3 mphside by side
155/75R1625.2" +0.8 %+2.5 mm60.5 mphside by side
185/60R1624.7" -0.9 %-2.8 mm59.5 mphside by side
195/60R1625.2" +1.0 %+3.3 mm60.6 mphside by side
155/70R1624.5" -1.7 %-5.3 mm59.0 mphside by side
165/65R1624.4" -2.1 %-6.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
195/55R1624.4" -2.1 %-6.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
185/65R1625.5" +2.1 %+6.5 mm61.2 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.


155/65R17101 mm sidewall — 11% less
195/65R15127 mm sidewall — 11% more
145/70R17102 mm sidewall — 11% less
185/55R17102 mm sidewall — 11% less
205/50R17103 mm sidewall — 10% less
155/80R15124 mm sidewall — 9% 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
165/70R1630.2 mph50.3 mph70.4 mph10,055
155/75R1630.2 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,079
185/60R1629.7 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,913
195/60R1630.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,103
155/70R1629.5 mph49.2 mph68.8 mph9,834