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Sidewall

195/80R16

195 mm across the tread, a sidewall 80% of that — 156 mm — on a 16-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 28.3 inches tall.

156 mm sidewall718 mm · 28.3"
Sidewall
6.14"
156 mm
Overall
28.3"
718.4 mm
Circumference
88.9"
2.257 m
Revs per mile
713
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 28.3×7.7R16 — 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
185/85R1628.4" +0.3 %+1.3 mm60.2 mphside by side
205/75R1628.1" -0.6 %-2.3 mm59.6 mphside by side
215/75R1628.7" +1.5 %+5.3 mm60.9 mphside by side
215/70R1627.9" -1.5 %-5.5 mm59.1 mphside by side
175/85R1627.7" -2.0 %-7.3 mm58.8 mphside by side
185/80R1627.7" -2.2 %-8.0 mm58.7 mphside by side
205/80R1628.9" +2.2 %+8.0 mm61.3 mphside by side
195/75R1627.5" -2.7 %-9.8 mm58.4 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.


225/75R15169 mm sidewall — 8% more
205/70R17144 mm sidewall — 8% less
195/85R15166 mm sidewall — 6% more
195/75R17146 mm sidewall — 6% less
225/65R17146 mm sidewall — 6% less
175/80R17140 mm sidewall — 10% 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
185/85R1630.1 mph50.2 mph70.2 mph10,035
205/75R1629.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,937
215/75R1630.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,146
215/70R1629.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,847
175/85R1629.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,798