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Sidewall

195/85R14

195 mm across the tread, a sidewall 85% of that — 166 mm — on a 14-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 27.1 inches tall.

166 mm sidewall687 mm · 27.1"
Sidewall
6.53"
166 mm
Overall
27.1"
687.1 mm
Circumference
85.0"
2.159 m
Revs per mile
746
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 27.1×7.7R14 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 14-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
205/80R1426.9" -0.5 %-1.8 mm59.7 mphside by side
215/75R1426.7" -1.3 %-4.5 mm59.2 mphside by side
215/80R1427.5" +1.8 %+6.3 mm61.1 mphside by side
185/85R1426.4" -2.5 %-8.5 mm58.5 mphside by side
205/85R1427.7" +2.5 %+8.5 mm61.5 mphside by side
195/80R1426.3" -2.8 %-9.8 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.


205/75R15154 mm sidewall — 7% less
215/70R15151 mm sidewall — 9% less
195/80R15156 mm sidewall — 6% less
205/85R13174 mm sidewall — 5% more
185/85R15157 mm sidewall — 5% less
175/85R15149 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
205/80R1429.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,949
215/75R1429.6 mph49.3 mph69.1 mph9,869
215/80R1430.5 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,182
185/85R1429.3 mph48.8 mph68.3 mph9,753
205/85R1430.7 mph51.2 mph71.7 mph10,247