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245/65R20

245 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 159 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.5 inches tall.

159 mm sidewall827 mm · 32.5"
Sidewall
6.27"
159 mm
Overall
32.5"
826.5 mm
Circumference
102.2"
2.597 m
Revs per mile
620
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 32.5×9.6R20 — 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
265/60R2032.5" -0.1 %-0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
225/70R2032.4" -0.4 %-1.8 mm59.7 mphside by side
235/70R2033.0" +1.3 %+5.3 mm60.8 mphside by side
255/60R2032.0" -1.5 %-6.3 mm59.1 mphside by side
235/65R2032.0" -1.6 %-6.5 mm59.1 mphside by side
255/65R2033.1" +1.6 %+6.5 mm60.9 mphside by side
225/75R2033.3" +2.3 %+9.5 mm61.4 mphside by side
245/60R2031.6" -3.0 %-12.3 mm58.2 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.


215/80R19172 mm sidewall — 8% more
265/65R19172 mm sidewall — 8% more
225/65R21146 mm sidewall — 8% less
245/60R21147 mm sidewall — 8% less
245/70R19172 mm sidewall — 8% more
265/55R21146 mm sidewall — 8% 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
265/60R2030.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph9,994
225/70R2029.9 mph49.8 mph69.7 mph9,958
235/70R2030.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,127
255/60R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,849
235/65R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,843