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Sidewall

245/70R19

245 mm across the tread, a sidewall 70% of that — 172 mm — on a 19-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.5 inches tall.

172 mm sidewall826 mm · 32.5"
Sidewall
6.75"
172 mm
Overall
32.5"
825.6 mm
Circumference
102.1"
2.594 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 32.5×9.6R19 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

3 of them name what let go, and it is most often blowout. Goodyear is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blowout3

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 2 were on the rear, and 0 on the front.

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
265/65R1932.6" +0.2 %+0.8 mm60.1 mphside by side
225/75R1932.3" -0.7 %-2.8 mm59.6 mphside by side
235/75R1932.9" +1.2 %+4.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
255/65R1932.1" -1.4 %-5.8 mm59.2 mphside by side
235/70R1932.0" -1.7 %-7.0 mm59.0 mphside by side
255/70R1933.1" +1.7 %+7.0 mm61.0 mphside by side
225/80R1933.2" +2.1 %+8.5 mm61.2 mphside by side
245/65R1931.5" -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.


265/60R20159 mm sidewall — 7% less
245/75R18184 mm sidewall — 7% more
245/65R20159 mm sidewall — 7% less
225/70R20158 mm sidewall — 8% less
265/70R18186 mm sidewall — 8% more
215/85R18183 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
265/65R1930.1 mph50.1 mph70.1 mph10,018
225/75R1929.8 mph49.7 mph69.5 mph9,933
235/75R1930.3 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,115
255/65R1929.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,861
235/70R1929.5 mph49.2 mph68.8 mph9,830