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Sidewall

195/80R19

195 mm across the tread, a sidewall 80% of that — 156 mm — on a 19-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 31.3 inches tall.

156 mm sidewall795 mm · 31.3"
Sidewall
6.14"
156 mm
Overall
31.3"
794.6 mm
Circumference
98.3"
2.496 m
Revs per mile
645
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 31.3×7.7R19 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 19-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
205/75R1931.1" -0.6 %-2.3 mm59.7 mphside by side
215/75R1931.7" +1.3 %+5.3 mm60.8 mphside by side
215/70R1930.9" -1.4 %-5.5 mm59.2 mphside by side
205/80R1931.9" +2.0 %+8.0 mm61.2 mphside by side
195/75R1930.5" -2.5 %-9.8 mm58.5 mphside by side
195/85R1932.1" +2.5 %+9.8 mm61.5 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.


225/75R18169 mm sidewall — 8% more
205/70R20144 mm sidewall — 8% less
195/85R18166 mm sidewall — 6% more
225/65R20146 mm sidewall — 6% less
215/80R18172 mm sidewall — 10% more
215/65R20140 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
205/75R1929.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,943
215/75R1930.4 mph50.7 mph70.9 mph10,132
215/70R1929.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,862
205/80R1930.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,201
195/75R1929.3 mph48.8 mph68.3 mph9,755