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Sidewall

215/75R20

215 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 161 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.7 inches tall.

161 mm sidewall831 mm · 32.7"
Sidewall
6.35"
161 mm
Overall
32.7"
830.5 mm
Circumference
102.7"
2.609 m
Revs per mile
617
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 32.7×8.5R20 — 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
205/80R2032.9" +0.7 %+2.8 mm60.4 mphside by side
235/70R2033.0" +0.8 %+3.3 mm60.5 mphside by side
225/70R2032.4" -0.9 %-3.8 mm59.5 mphside by side
205/75R2032.1" -1.8 %-7.5 mm58.9 mphside by side
225/75R2033.3" +1.8 %+7.5 mm61.1 mphside by side
235/65R2032.0" -2.0 %-8.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
215/70R2031.9" -2.6 %-10.8 mm58.4 mphside by side
215/80R2033.5" +2.6 %+10.8 mm61.6 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.


205/85R19174 mm sidewall — 8% more
245/60R21147 mm sidewall — 9% less
215/70R21151 mm sidewall — 7% less
215/80R19172 mm sidewall — 7% more
235/75R19176 mm sidewall — 9% more
225/65R21146 mm sidewall — 9% 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
205/80R2030.2 mph50.3 mph70.5 mph10,066
235/70R2030.2 mph50.4 mph70.5 mph10,078
225/70R2029.7 mph49.5 mph69.4 mph9,910
205/75R2029.5 mph49.1 mph68.7 mph9,819
225/75R2030.5 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,181