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Sidewall

275/45R22

275 mm across the tread, a sidewall 45% of that — 124 mm — on a 22-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 31.7 inches tall.

124 mm sidewall806 mm · 31.7"
Sidewall
4.87"
124 mm
Overall
31.7"
806.3 mm
Circumference
99.7"
2.533 m
Revs per mile
635
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 7.5" and 10" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 263 mm across at the narrow end and 288 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 31.7×10.8R22 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

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

What let goComplaints
out of round1

Where the wheel is named, 1 of 1 were on the front — the end that steers.

What fits instead

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Same 22-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
255/50R2232.0" +0.9 %+3.8 mm60.6 mphside by side
265/45R2231.4" -1.1 %-4.5 mm59.3 mphside by side
285/45R2232.1" +1.1 %+4.5 mm60.7 mphside by side
295/40R2231.3" -1.4 %-5.8 mm59.1 mphside by side
265/50R2232.4" +2.2 %+8.8 mm61.3 mphside by side
255/45R2231.0" -2.2 %-9.0 mm58.7 mphside by side
295/45R2232.5" +2.2 %+9.0 mm61.3 mphside by side
285/40R2231.0" -2.4 %-9.8 mm58.5 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.


245/45R23110 mm sidewall — 11% less
305/45R21137 mm sidewall — 11% more
275/40R23110 mm sidewall — 11% less
275/50R21138 mm sidewall — 11% more
245/55R21135 mm sidewall — 9% more
285/40R23114 mm sidewall — 8% less

Tires graded in this size

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


TireTreadwearWet grip
Venezia Strada IV500A

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
255/50R2230.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,093
265/45R2229.7 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,888
285/45R2230.3 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,112
295/40R2229.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,857
265/50R2230.7 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,217