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225/45R19

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 45% of that — 101 mm — on a 19-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 27.0 inches tall.

101 mm sidewall685 mm · 27.0"
Sidewall
3.99"
101 mm
Overall
27.0"
685.1 mm
Circumference
84.7"
2.152 m
Revs per mile
748
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 27.0×8.9R19 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

1 of them name what let go, and it is most often tread separation. Dunlop is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
tread separation1

Where the wheel is named, 1 of 1 were on the rear, and 0 on the front.

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
205/50R1927.1" +0.4 %+1.3 mm60.2 mphside by side
245/40R1926.7" -0.9 %-3.3 mm59.4 mphside by side
215/45R1926.6" -1.3 %-4.5 mm59.2 mphside by side
235/45R1927.3" +1.3 %+4.5 mm60.8 mphside by side
215/50R1927.5" +1.8 %+6.3 mm61.1 mphside by side
235/40R1926.4" -2.1 %-7.3 mm58.7 mphside by side
205/45R1926.3" -2.6 %-9.0 mm58.4 mphside by side
245/45R1927.7" +2.6 %+9.0 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.


255/35R2089 mm sidewall — 12% less
255/45R18115 mm sidewall — 13% more
205/55R18113 mm sidewall — 11% more
225/50R18113 mm sidewall — 11% more
225/40R2090 mm sidewall — 11% less
215/40R2086 mm sidewall — 15% less

Tires graded in this size

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


TireTreadwearWet grip
CONTINENTAL ProContact TX540A
HanKOOK Ventus evo SUV (OE)540A
Dunlop SP SPORT MAXX 060500A
Hankook veNtus S1 evo2 (OE)440A
CONTINENTAL ContiSportContact 5420AA
CONTINENTAL EcoContact 6420AA
Hankook veNtus S1 evo3 (OE)420A
Michelin Pilot Sport 4320A
Hankook V PRIME4 SUV (OE)310A
Hankook Ventus PRIME4 SUV (OE)300A
CONTINENTAL PremiumContact 6280AA

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
205/50R1930.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,036
245/40R1929.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,905
215/45R1929.6 mph49.3 mph69.1 mph9,869
235/45R1930.4 mph50.7 mph70.9 mph10,131
215/50R1930.5 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,182