Skip to content
Sidewall

225/70R19

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 70% of that — 158 mm — on a 19-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 31.4 inches tall.

158 mm sidewall798 mm · 31.4"
Sidewall
6.20"
158 mm
Overall
31.4"
797.6 mm
Circumference
98.7"
2.506 m
Revs per mile
642
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

i

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 31.4×8.9R19 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

i

7 drivers have filed a complaint. 0 of them ended in a crash, and nobody was hurt. Nobody died.

2 of them name what let go, and it is most often blowout. Michelin is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blowout2
not stated5

Where the wheel is named, 4 of 4 were on the front — the end that steers.

What fits instead

i

Same 19-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
245/65R1931.5" +0.4 %+1.8 mm60.3 mphside by side
205/75R1931.1" -0.9 %-3.8 mm59.4 mphside by side
215/75R1931.7" +0.9 %+3.8 mm60.6 mphside by side
235/65R1931.0" -1.2 %-4.8 mm59.3 mphside by side
205/80R1931.9" +1.6 %+6.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
215/70R1930.9" -1.8 %-7.0 mm58.9 mphside by side
235/70R1932.0" +1.8 %+7.0 mm61.1 mphside by side
245/60R1930.6" -2.6 %-10.5 mm58.4 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.


205/70R20144 mm sidewall — 9% less
245/70R18172 mm sidewall — 9% more
225/75R18169 mm sidewall — 7% more
225/65R20146 mm sidewall — 7% less
215/80R18172 mm sidewall — 9% more
245/60R20147 mm sidewall — 7% 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
245/65R1930.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,044
205/75R1929.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,906
215/75R1930.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,094
235/65R1929.6 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,881
205/80R1930.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,163