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Sidewall

235/65R20

235 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 153 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.0 inches tall.

153 mm sidewall814 mm · 32.0"
Sidewall
6.01"
153 mm
Overall
32.0"
813.5 mm
Circumference
100.6"
2.556 m
Revs per mile
630
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 32.0×9.3R20 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 20-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
255/60R2032.0" +0.1 %+0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
215/70R2031.9" -0.6 %-2.3 mm59.7 mphside by side
225/70R2032.4" +1.2 %+4.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
245/60R2031.6" -1.4 %-5.8 mm59.2 mphside by side
225/65R2031.5" -1.6 %-6.5 mm59.0 mphside by side
245/65R2032.5" +1.6 %+6.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
215/75R2032.7" +2.1 %+8.5 mm61.3 mphside by side
235/60R2031.1" -2.9 %-11.8 mm58.3 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.


255/55R21140 mm sidewall — 8% less
255/65R19166 mm sidewall — 9% more
215/65R21140 mm sidewall — 9% less
235/60R21141 mm sidewall — 8% less
235/70R19165 mm sidewall — 8% more
205/80R19164 mm sidewall — 7% 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
255/60R2030.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph10,006
215/70R2029.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,945
225/70R2030.4 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,117
245/60R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,859
225/65R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,840