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Sidewall

205/80R19

205 mm across the tread, a sidewall 80% of that — 164 mm — on a 19-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 31.9 inches tall.

164 mm sidewall811 mm · 31.9"
Sidewall
6.46"
164 mm
Overall
31.9"
810.6 mm
Circumference
100.3"
2.547 m
Revs per mile
632
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 31.9×8.1R19 — 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
195/85R1932.1" +0.4 %+1.8 mm60.3 mphside by side
215/75R1931.7" -0.7 %-2.8 mm59.6 mphside by side
225/75R1932.3" +1.2 %+4.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
225/70R1931.4" -1.6 %-6.5 mm59.0 mphside by side
195/80R1931.3" -2.0 %-8.0 mm58.8 mphside by side
215/80R1932.5" +2.0 %+8.0 mm61.2 mphside by side
205/75R1931.1" -2.5 %-10.3 mm58.5 mphside by side
205/85R1932.7" +2.5 %+10.3 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.


235/75R18176 mm sidewall — 7% more
215/70R20151 mm sidewall — 8% less
235/65R20153 mm sidewall — 7% less
205/85R18174 mm sidewall — 6% more
205/75R20154 mm sidewall — 6% less
225/80R18180 mm sidewall — 10% 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
195/85R1930.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,043
215/75R1929.8 mph49.7 mph69.5 mph9,932
225/75R1930.4 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,117
225/70R1929.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,840
195/80R1929.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,803