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Sidewall

225/60R20

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 135 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 30.6 inches tall.

135 mm sidewall778 mm · 30.6"
Sidewall
5.31"
135 mm
Overall
30.6"
778.0 mm
Circumference
96.2"
2.444 m
Revs per mile
658
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 30.6×8.9R20 — 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
245/55R2030.6" -0.1 %-0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
205/65R2030.5" -0.4 %-1.8 mm59.7 mphside by side
215/65R2031.0" +1.2 %+4.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
235/55R2030.2" -1.5 %-5.8 mm59.1 mphside by side
215/60R2030.2" -1.5 %-6.0 mm59.1 mphside by side
235/60R2031.1" +1.5 %+6.0 mm60.9 mphside by side
205/70R2031.3" +2.2 %+8.5 mm61.3 mphside by side
225/55R2029.7" -2.9 %-11.3 mm58.3 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.


245/50R21123 mm sidewall — 9% less
245/60R19147 mm sidewall — 9% more
225/55R21124 mm sidewall — 8% less
195/75R19146 mm sidewall — 8% more
225/65R19146 mm sidewall — 8% more
215/70R19151 mm sidewall — 11% 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
245/55R2030.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph9,994
205/65R2029.9 mph49.8 mph69.7 mph9,955
215/65R2030.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,122
235/55R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,852
215/60R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,846