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Sidewall

225/50R22

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 50% of that — 113 mm — on a 22-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 30.9 inches tall.

113 mm sidewall784 mm · 30.9"
Sidewall
4.43"
113 mm
Overall
30.9"
783.8 mm
Circumference
96.9"
2.462 m
Revs per mile
654
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 30.9×8.9R22 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 22-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
245/45R2230.7" -0.6 %-2.3 mm59.7 mphside by side
235/50R2231.3" +1.3 %+5.0 mm60.8 mphside by side
235/45R2230.3" -1.7 %-6.8 mm59.0 mphside by side
245/50R2231.6" +2.6 %+10.0 mm61.5 mphside by side
225/45R2230.0" -2.9 %-11.3 mm58.3 mphside by side
225/55R2231.7" +2.9 %+11.3 mm61.7 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.


225/55R21124 mm sidewall — 10% more
245/40R2398 mm sidewall — 13% less
255/40R23102 mm sidewall — 9% less
255/50R21128 mm sidewall — 13% more
245/50R21123 mm sidewall — 9% more
215/60R21129 mm sidewall — 15% 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
245/45R2229.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,943
235/50R2230.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,128
235/45R2229.5 mph49.1 mph68.8 mph9,828
245/50R2230.8 mph51.3 mph71.8 mph10,255
225/45R2229.1 mph48.6 mph68.0 mph9,713