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Sidewall

225/35R20

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 35% of that — 79 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 26.2 inches tall.

78.8 mm sidewall666 mm · 26.2"
Sidewall
3.10"
79 mm
Overall
26.2"
665.5 mm
Circumference
82.3"
2.091 m
Revs per mile
770
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 6" and 8.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 213 mm across at the narrow end and 238 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 26.2×8.9R20 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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2 drivers have filed a complaint. 0 of them ended in a crash, and nobody was hurt. Nobody died.

2 of them name what let go, and it is most often blister. Hercules is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blister2

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 2 were on the rear, and 0 on the front.

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
205/40R2026.5" +1.0 %+3.3 mm60.6 mphside by side
215/35R2025.9" -1.1 %-3.5 mm59.4 mphside by side
235/35R2026.5" +1.1 %+3.5 mm60.6 mphside by side
245/35R2026.8" +2.1 %+7.0 mm61.3 mphside by side
215/40R2026.8" +2.2 %+7.3 mm61.3 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.


205/45R1992 mm sidewall — 17% more
225/40R1990 mm sidewall — 14% more
255/35R1989 mm sidewall — 13% more
235/40R1994 mm sidewall — 19% more
195/45R1988 mm sidewall — 11% more
235/45R18106 mm sidewall — 34% more

Tires graded in this size

Longest-lasting tread first. The grade is set by the maker and checked by regulators.


TireTreadwearWet grip
Toyo Crusade HP500A
Vanderbilt Strada II500A
BLACKHAWK STREET-H HU02400AA
Yokohama AVID W4s400AA
Neutral/Universal N7000360AA
Nexen RADIAL N3000340AA
Nexen RADIAL N6000300AA
Yokohama S.DRIVE300AA

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
205/40R2030.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,098
215/35R2029.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,895
235/35R2030.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,105
245/35R2030.6 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,210
215/40R2030.7 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,218