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225/75R17

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 169 mm — on a 17-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 30.3 inches tall.

169 mm sidewall769 mm · 30.3"
Sidewall
6.64"
169 mm
Overall
30.3"
769.3 mm
Circumference
95.2"
2.417 m
Revs per mile
666
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 30.3×8.9R17 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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3 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. Kumho is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blowout2
not stated1

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 2 were on the rear, and 0 on the front.

What fits instead

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Same 17-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
245/70R1730.5" +0.7 %+2.8 mm60.4 mphside by side
215/80R1730.5" +0.8 %+3.3 mm60.5 mphside by side
235/70R1730.0" -1.1 %-4.3 mm59.3 mphside by side
205/80R1729.9" -1.2 %-4.8 mm59.3 mphside by side
205/85R1730.7" +1.4 %+5.5 mm60.9 mphside by side
215/75R1729.7" -1.9 %-7.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
235/75R1730.9" +1.9 %+7.5 mm61.2 mphside by side
245/65R1729.5" -2.5 %-9.5 mm58.5 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.


195/80R18156 mm sidewall — 8% less
215/85R16183 mm sidewall — 8% more
225/80R16180 mm sidewall — 7% more
225/70R18158 mm sidewall — 7% less
205/75R18154 mm sidewall — 9% less
245/75R16184 mm sidewall — 9% more

Tires graded in this size

Longest-lasting tread first. The grade is set by the maker and checked by regulators.


TireTreadwearWet grip
Hankook KInERGy GT (OE)740A

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
245/70R1730.2 mph50.4 mph70.5 mph10,071
215/80R1730.3 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,084
235/70R1729.7 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,890
205/80R1729.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,877
205/85R1730.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,143