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215/75R17.5

215 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 161 mm — on a 17.5-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 30.2 inches tall.

161 mm sidewall767 mm · 30.2"
Sidewall
6.35"
161 mm
Overall
30.2"
767.0 mm
Circumference
94.9"
2.410 m
Revs per mile
668
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 6" and 8" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 205 mm across at the narrow end and 225 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 30.2×8.5R17.5 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 17.5-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
205/80R17.530.4" +0.7 %+2.8 mm60.4 mphside by side
235/70R17.530.5" +0.8 %+3.3 mm60.5 mphside by side
225/70R17.529.9" -1.0 %-3.8 mm59.4 mphside by side
205/75R17.529.6" -2.0 %-7.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
225/75R17.530.8" +2.0 %+7.5 mm61.2 mphside by side
215/70R17.529.4" -2.8 %-10.8 mm58.3 mphside by side
215/80R17.531.0" +2.8 %+10.8 mm61.7 mphside by side

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
205/80R17.530.2 mph50.4 mph70.5 mph10,072
235/70R17.530.3 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,085
225/70R17.529.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,902
205/75R17.529.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,804
225/75R17.530.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,196