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195/60R16

195 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 117 mm — on a 16-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 25.2 inches tall.

117 mm sidewall640 mm · 25.2"
Sidewall
4.61"
117 mm
Overall
25.2"
640.4 mm
Circumference
79.2"
2.012 m
Revs per mile
800
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 5.5" and 7" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 188 mm across at the narrow end and 203 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 25.2×7.7R16 — 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 blowout. Dunlop is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blowout1
road hazard1

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

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
215/55R1625.3" +0.4 %+1.3 mm60.2 mphside by side
175/65R1625.0" -1.0 %-3.3 mm59.4 mphside by side
185/65R1625.5" +1.0 %+3.3 mm60.6 mphside by side
205/55R1624.9" -1.3 %-4.3 mm59.2 mphside by side
175/70R1625.6" +1.7 %+5.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
185/60R1624.7" -1.9 %-6.0 mm58.9 mphside by side
205/60R1625.7" +1.9 %+6.0 mm61.1 mphside by side
215/50R1624.5" -3.0 %-9.5 mm58.2 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.


185/70R15130 mm sidewall — 11% more
215/60R15129 mm sidewall — 10% more
175/60R17105 mm sidewall — 10% less
175/75R15131 mm sidewall — 12% more
205/50R17103 mm sidewall — 12% less
165/80R15132 mm sidewall — 13% more

Tires graded in this size

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


TireTreadwearWet grip
Dunlop ENASAVE EC350+(PC580SW)240B

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
215/55R1630.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,039
175/65R1629.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,899
185/65R1630.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,101
205/55R1629.6 mph49.3 mph69.1 mph9,867
175/70R1630.5 mph50.9 mph71.2 mph10,172