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235/35R19

235 mm across the tread, a sidewall 35% of that — 82 mm — on a 19-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 25.5 inches tall.

82.3 mm sidewall647 mm · 25.5"
Sidewall
3.24"
82 mm
Overall
25.5"
647.1 mm
Circumference
80.0"
2.033 m
Revs per mile
792
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 6.5" and 8.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 225 mm across at the narrow end and 245 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 25.5×9.3R19 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

4 of them name what let go, and it is most often tread separation. Cooper is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
tread separation4
not stated2

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 4 were on the front — the end that steers.

What fits instead

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


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
225/35R1925.2" -1.1 %-3.5 mm59.4 mphside by side
245/35R1925.8" +1.1 %+3.5 mm60.6 mphside by side
215/40R1925.8" +1.2 %+3.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
255/30R1925.0" -1.8 %-5.8 mm58.9 mphside by side
215/35R1924.9" -2.2 %-7.0 mm58.7 mphside by side
255/35R1926.0" +2.2 %+7.0 mm61.3 mphside by side
225/40R1926.1" +2.4 %+7.8 mm61.4 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.


235/40R1894 mm sidewall — 14% more
215/45R1897 mm sidewall — 18% more
265/35R1893 mm sidewall — 13% more
205/45R1892 mm sidewall — 12% more
245/40R1898 mm sidewall — 19% more
215/50R17108 mm sidewall — 31% more

Tires graded in this size

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


TireTreadwearWet grip
CONTINENTAL ProContact RX540A
Tempra Mach 4 R302500A
Toyo Crusade HP500A
Falken AZENIS PT722440A
Hankook veNtus S1 evo3 (OE)420A
HanKOOK Ventus evo (OE)380A
Neutral/Universal N7000360AA
Nexen RADIAL N3000340AA
Yokohama S.DRIVE300AA
CONTINENTAL ContiSportContact 5P280AA
CONTINENTAL SportContact 6280AA
Western Auto ADVAN Sport180AA

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
225/35R1929.7 mph49.5 mph69.2 mph9,892
245/35R1930.3 mph50.5 mph70.8 mph10,108
215/40R1930.3 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,116
255/30R1929.5 mph49.1 mph68.8 mph9,822
215/35R1929.4 mph48.9 mph68.5 mph9,784