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175/85R13

175 mm across the tread, a sidewall 85% of that — 149 mm — on a 13-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 24.7 inches tall.

149 mm sidewall628 mm · 24.7"
Sidewall
5.86"
149 mm
Overall
24.7"
627.7 mm
Circumference
77.6"
1.972 m
Revs per mile
816
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 24.7×6.9R13 — tall by wide, in inches.

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
185/80R1324.7" -0.2 %-0.8 mm59.9 mphside by side
195/75R1324.5" -0.8 %-2.5 mm59.5 mphside by side
195/80R1325.3" +2.3 %+7.3 mm61.4 mphside by side
165/85R1324.0" -2.7 %-8.5 mm58.4 mphside by side
185/85R1325.4" +2.7 %+8.5 mm61.6 mphside by side
175/80R1324.0" -2.8 %-8.8 mm58.3 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.


195/70R14137 mm sidewall — 8% less
185/75R14139 mm sidewall — 7% less
205/65R14133 mm sidewall — 10% less
175/80R14140 mm sidewall — 6% less
165/80R14132 mm sidewall — 11% less
165/85R14140 mm sidewall — 6% 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
185/80R1329.9 mph49.9 mph69.8 mph9,976
195/75R1329.8 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,920
195/80R1330.7 mph51.2 mph71.6 mph10,231
165/85R1329.2 mph48.6 mph68.1 mph9,729
185/85R1330.8 mph51.4 mph71.9 mph10,271