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Sidewall

225/65R20

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 146 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 31.5 inches tall.

146 mm sidewall801 mm · 31.5"
Sidewall
5.76"
146 mm
Overall
31.5"
800.5 mm
Circumference
99.0"
2.515 m
Revs per mile
640
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 31.5×8.9R20 — 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
245/60R2031.6" +0.2 %+0.8 mm60.1 mphside by side
205/70R2031.3" -0.7 %-2.8 mm59.6 mphside by side
215/70R2031.9" +1.1 %+4.3 mm60.6 mphside by side
235/60R2031.1" -1.3 %-5.3 mm59.2 mphside by side
215/65R2031.0" -1.6 %-6.5 mm59.0 mphside by side
235/65R2032.0" +1.6 %+6.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
205/75R2032.1" +1.9 %+7.5 mm61.1 mphside by side
225/60R2030.6" -2.8 %-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.


245/65R19159 mm sidewall — 9% more
245/55R21135 mm sidewall — 8% less
225/60R21135 mm sidewall — 8% less
225/70R19158 mm sidewall — 8% more
215/75R19161 mm sidewall — 10% more
195/80R19156 mm sidewall — 7% 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
245/60R2030.1 mph50.1 mph70.1 mph10,019
205/70R2029.8 mph49.7 mph69.5 mph9,931
215/70R2030.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,106
235/60R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.1 mph9,869
215/65R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,838