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Sidewall

225/65R14

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 146 mm — on a 14-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 25.5 inches tall.

146 mm sidewall648 mm · 25.5"
Sidewall
5.76"
146 mm
Overall
25.5"
648.1 mm
Circumference
80.2"
2.036 m
Revs per mile
790
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 25.5×8.9R14 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 14-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
205/70R1425.3" -0.8 %-2.8 mm59.5 mphside by side
215/70R1425.9" +1.3 %+4.3 mm60.8 mphside by side
235/60R1425.1" -1.6 %-5.3 mm59.0 mphside by side
215/65R1425.0" -2.0 %-6.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
235/65R1426.0" +2.0 %+6.5 mm61.2 mphside by side
205/75R1426.1" +2.3 %+7.5 mm61.4 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.


205/65R15133 mm sidewall — 9% less
245/55R15135 mm sidewall — 8% less
225/60R15135 mm sidewall — 8% less
195/80R13156 mm sidewall — 7% more
195/70R15137 mm sidewall — 7% less
235/55R15129 mm sidewall — 12% 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
205/70R1429.7 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,915
215/70R1430.4 mph50.7 mph70.9 mph10,131
235/60R1429.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,838
215/65R1429.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,799
235/65R1430.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,201