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245/35R19

245 mm across the tread, a sidewall 35% of that — 86 mm — on a 19-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 25.8 inches tall.

85.8 mm sidewall654 mm · 25.8"
Sidewall
3.38"
86 mm
Overall
25.8"
654.1 mm
Circumference
80.9"
2.055 m
Revs per mile
783
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 7" and 9" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 235 mm across at the narrow end and 255 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 25.8×9.6R19 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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4 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. Kumho is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
tread separation2
road hazard2

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
235/35R1925.5" -1.1 %-3.5 mm59.4 mphside by side
255/35R1926.0" +1.1 %+3.5 mm60.6 mphside by side
225/40R1926.1" +1.3 %+4.3 mm60.8 mphside by side
265/30R1925.3" -1.9 %-6.3 mm58.9 mphside by side
225/35R1925.2" -2.1 %-7.0 mm58.7 mphside by side
265/35R1926.3" +2.1 %+7.0 mm61.3 mphside by side
235/40R1926.4" +2.5 %+8.3 mm61.5 mphside by side
255/30R1925.0" -2.8 %-9.3 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.


245/40R1898 mm sidewall — 14% more
215/45R1897 mm sidewall — 13% more
275/35R1896 mm sidewall — 12% more
215/35R2075 mm sidewall — 12% less
225/45R18101 mm sidewall — 18% more
255/30R2077 mm sidewall — 11% less

Tires graded in this size

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


TireTreadwearWet grip
Toyo Crusade HP500A
Goodride SA07460A
CONTINENTAL ContiSportContact 5420AA
Neutral/Universal N7000360AA
Nexen RADIAL N3000340AA
Michelin Pilot Sport 4320A
Bridgestone POTENZA SPORT300A
MICHELIN Pilot Sport 4 S300A
CONTINENTAL SportContact 6280AA
Yokohama ADVAN Sport280AA
Goodyear EAGLE F1 ASYMMETRIC 3 ROF240AA
MICHELIN Pilot Sport Cup 2 (240)200AA

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
235/35R1929.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,893
255/35R1930.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,107
225/40R1930.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,130
265/30R1929.4 mph49.0 mph68.7 mph9,809
225/35R1929.4 mph48.9 mph68.5 mph9,786