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225/70R17.5

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 70% of that — 158 mm — on a 17.5-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 29.9 inches tall.

158 mm sidewall760 mm · 29.9"
Sidewall
6.20"
158 mm
Overall
29.9"
759.5 mm
Circumference
93.9"
2.386 m
Revs per mile
674
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 29.9×8.9R17.5 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 17.5-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
205/75R17.529.6" -1.0 %-3.8 mm59.4 mphside by side
215/75R17.530.2" +1.0 %+3.8 mm60.6 mphside by side
205/80R17.530.4" +1.7 %+6.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
215/70R17.529.4" -1.8 %-7.0 mm58.9 mphside by side
235/70R17.530.5" +1.8 %+7.0 mm61.1 mphside by side
225/75R17.530.8" +3.0 %+11.3 mm61.8 mphside by side

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
205/75R17.529.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,901
215/75R17.530.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,099
205/80R17.530.5 mph50.9 mph71.2 mph10,171
215/70R17.529.4 mph49.1 mph68.7 mph9,816
235/70R17.530.6 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,184