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Sidewall

205/80R20

205 mm across the tread, a sidewall 80% of that — 164 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.9 inches tall.

164 mm sidewall836 mm · 32.9"
Sidewall
6.46"
164 mm
Overall
32.9"
836.0 mm
Circumference
103.4"
2.626 m
Revs per mile
613
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 32.9×8.1R20 — 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
215/75R2032.7" -0.7 %-2.8 mm59.6 mphside by side
225/75R2033.3" +1.1 %+4.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
225/70R2032.4" -1.6 %-6.5 mm59.1 mphside by side
215/80R2033.5" +1.9 %+8.0 mm61.1 mphside by side
205/75R2032.1" -2.5 %-10.3 mm58.5 mphside by side
205/85R2033.7" +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.


235/75R19176 mm sidewall — 7% more
215/70R21151 mm sidewall — 8% less
235/65R21153 mm sidewall — 7% less
205/85R19174 mm sidewall — 6% more
225/80R19180 mm sidewall — 10% more
215/80R19172 mm sidewall — 5% 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
215/75R2029.8 mph49.7 mph69.5 mph9,934
225/75R2030.3 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,114
225/70R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,844
215/80R2030.6 mph51.0 mph71.3 mph10,191
205/75R2029.3 mph48.8 mph68.3 mph9,755