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Sidewall

205/60R20

205 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 123 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 29.7 inches tall.

123 mm sidewall754 mm · 29.7"
Sidewall
4.84"
123 mm
Overall
29.7"
754.0 mm
Circumference
93.3"
2.369 m
Revs per mile
679
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 5.5" and 7.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 195 mm across at the narrow end and 215 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 29.7×8.1R20 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 20-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
225/55R2029.7" +0.2 %+0.8 mm60.1 mphside by side
215/55R2029.3" -1.3 %-4.8 mm59.2 mphside by side
215/60R2030.2" +1.6 %+6.0 mm61.0 mphside by side
205/55R2028.9" -2.7 %-10.3 mm58.4 mphside by side
205/65R2030.5" +2.7 %+10.3 mm61.6 mphside by side
225/50R2028.9" -2.8 %-10.5 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.


225/60R19135 mm sidewall — 10% more
195/70R19137 mm sidewall — 11% more
225/50R21113 mm sidewall — 9% less
205/65R19133 mm sidewall — 8% more
215/50R21108 mm sidewall — 13% less
215/65R19140 mm sidewall — 14% more

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
225/55R2030.1 mph50.1 mph70.1 mph10,020
215/55R2029.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,874
215/60R2030.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,159
205/55R2029.2 mph48.6 mph68.1 mph9,728
205/65R2030.8 mph51.4 mph71.9 mph10,272