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Sidewall

265/55R20

265 mm across the tread, a sidewall 55% of that — 146 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 31.5 inches tall.

146 mm sidewall800 mm · 31.5"
Sidewall
5.74"
146 mm
Overall
31.5"
799.5 mm
Circumference
98.9"
2.512 m
Revs per mile
641
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 7.5" and 9.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 255 mm across at the narrow end and 275 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 31.5×10.4R20 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

2 of them name what let go, and it is most often crack. Pirelli is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
crack2

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


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
245/60R2031.6" +0.3 %+1.3 mm60.2 mphside by side
285/50R2031.2" -0.8 %-3.3 mm59.5 mphside by side
255/55R2031.0" -1.4 %-5.5 mm59.2 mphside by side
275/55R2031.9" +1.4 %+5.5 mm60.8 mphside by side
255/60R2032.0" +1.8 %+7.3 mm61.1 mphside by side
275/50R2030.8" -2.1 %-8.3 mm58.8 mphside by side
245/55R2030.6" -2.8 %-11.0 mm58.3 mphside by side
285/55R2032.3" +2.8 %+11.0 mm61.7 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.


295/45R21133 mm sidewall — 9% less
265/60R19159 mm sidewall — 9% more
265/50R21133 mm sidewall — 9% less
245/65R19159 mm sidewall — 9% more
245/55R21135 mm sidewall — 8% less
285/55R19157 mm sidewall — 8% 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
245/60R2030.1 mph50.2 mph70.2 mph10,031
285/50R2029.8 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,919
255/55R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,862
275/55R2030.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,138
255/60R2030.5 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,181