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Sidewall

225/75R21

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 169 mm — on a 21-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 34.3 inches tall.

169 mm sidewall871 mm · 34.3"
Sidewall
6.64"
169 mm
Overall
34.3"
870.9 mm
Circumference
107.7"
2.736 m
Revs per mile
588
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 34.3×8.9R21 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 21-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
245/70R2134.5" +0.6 %+2.8 mm60.4 mphside by side
215/80R2134.5" +0.7 %+3.3 mm60.4 mphside by side
235/70R2134.0" -1.0 %-4.3 mm59.4 mphside by side
215/75R2133.7" -1.7 %-7.5 mm59.0 mphside by side
235/75R2134.9" +1.7 %+7.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
245/65R2133.5" -2.2 %-9.5 mm58.7 mphside by side
225/70R2133.4" -2.6 %-11.3 mm58.4 mphside by side
225/80R2135.2" +2.6 %+11.3 mm61.6 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.


215/85R20183 mm sidewall — 8% more
225/80R20180 mm sidewall — 7% more
225/70R22158 mm sidewall — 7% less
245/75R20184 mm sidewall — 9% more
255/70R20179 mm sidewall — 6% more
255/60R22153 mm sidewall — 9% 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
245/70R2130.2 mph50.3 mph70.4 mph10,063
215/80R2130.2 mph50.4 mph70.5 mph10,075
235/70R2129.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,902
215/75R2129.5 mph49.1 mph68.8 mph9,828
235/75R2130.5 mph50.9 mph71.2 mph10,172