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265/60R20

265 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 159 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.5 inches tall.

159 mm sidewall826 mm · 32.5"
Sidewall
6.26"
159 mm
Overall
32.5"
826.0 mm
Circumference
102.2"
2.595 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 7.5" 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 32.5×10.4R20 — 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 tread separation. Goodyear is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
tread separation2

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
245/65R2032.5" +0.1 %+0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
285/55R2032.3" -0.5 %-2.3 mm59.7 mphside by side
255/60R2032.0" -1.5 %-6.0 mm59.1 mphside by side
275/60R2033.0" +1.5 %+6.0 mm60.9 mphside by side
255/65R2033.1" +1.6 %+6.8 mm61.0 mphside by side
275/55R2031.9" -1.9 %-7.8 mm58.9 mphside by side
245/60R2031.6" -2.9 %-12.0 mm58.3 mphside by side
285/60R2033.5" +2.9 %+12.0 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.


245/70R19172 mm sidewall — 8% more
265/65R19172 mm sidewall — 8% more
265/55R21146 mm sidewall — 8% less
245/60R21147 mm sidewall — 8% less
285/60R19171 mm sidewall — 8% more
295/50R21148 mm sidewall — 7% less

Tires graded in this size

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


TireTreadwearWet grip
Falken WILDPEAK A/T AT3WA (H rating)500A

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
245/65R2030.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph10,006
285/55R2029.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,946
255/60R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,855
275/60R2030.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,145
255/65R2030.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,163