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Sidewall

225/70R22

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 70% of that — 158 mm — on a 22-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 34.4 inches tall.

158 mm sidewall874 mm · 34.4"
Sidewall
6.20"
158 mm
Overall
34.4"
873.8 mm
Circumference
108.1"
2.745 m
Revs per mile
586
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 34.4×8.9R22 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 22-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
245/65R2234.5" +0.4 %+1.8 mm60.2 mphside by side
235/65R2234.0" -1.1 %-4.8 mm59.3 mphside by side
235/70R2235.0" +1.6 %+7.0 mm61.0 mphside by side
245/60R2233.6" -2.4 %-10.5 mm58.6 mphside by side
225/65R2233.5" -2.6 %-11.3 mm58.5 mphside by side
225/75R2235.3" +2.6 %+11.3 mm61.5 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.


245/70R21172 mm sidewall — 9% more
225/75R21169 mm sidewall — 7% more
215/80R21172 mm sidewall — 9% more
245/60R23147 mm sidewall — 7% less
235/60R23141 mm sidewall — 10% less
255/65R21166 mm sidewall — 5% 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
245/65R2230.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,040
235/65R2229.7 mph49.5 mph69.2 mph9,891
235/70R2230.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,160
245/60R2229.3 mph48.8 mph68.3 mph9,760
225/65R2229.2 mph48.7 mph68.2 mph9,743