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Sidewall

235/75R20

235 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 176 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 33.9 inches tall.

176 mm sidewall861 mm · 33.9"
Sidewall
6.94"
176 mm
Overall
33.9"
860.5 mm
Circumference
106.4"
2.703 m
Revs per mile
595
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 33.9×9.3R20 — 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
255/70R2034.1" +0.5 %+2.3 mm60.3 mphside by side
225/80R2034.2" +0.9 %+3.8 mm60.5 mphside by side
215/80R2033.5" -1.0 %-4.3 mm59.4 mphside by side
245/70R2033.5" -1.1 %-4.8 mm59.3 mphside by side
215/85R2034.4" +1.5 %+6.5 mm60.9 mphside by side
225/75R2033.3" -1.7 %-7.5 mm59.0 mphside by side
245/75R2034.5" +1.7 %+7.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
255/65R2033.1" -2.4 %-10.5 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.


235/70R21165 mm sidewall — 7% less
235/80R19188 mm sidewall — 7% more
255/65R21166 mm sidewall — 6% less
225/85R19191 mm sidewall — 9% more
255/75R19191 mm sidewall — 9% more
215/75R21161 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
255/70R2030.2 mph50.3 mph70.4 mph10,052
225/80R2030.3 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,087
215/80R2029.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,901
245/70R2029.7 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,890
215/85R2030.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,151