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Sidewall

275/55R22

275 mm across the tread, a sidewall 55% of that — 151 mm — on a 22-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 33.9 inches tall.

151 mm sidewall861 mm · 33.9"
Sidewall
5.95"
151 mm
Overall
33.9"
861.3 mm
Circumference
106.5"
2.706 m
Revs per mile
595
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 33.9×10.8R22 — 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 22-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
255/60R2234.0" +0.4 %+1.8 mm60.2 mphside by side
295/50R2233.6" -0.9 %-3.8 mm59.5 mphside by side
265/55R2233.5" -1.3 %-5.5 mm59.2 mphside by side
285/55R2234.3" +1.3 %+5.5 mm60.8 mphside by side
265/60R2234.5" +1.8 %+7.8 mm61.1 mphside by side
285/50R2233.2" -2.0 %-8.8 mm58.8 mphside by side
255/55R2233.0" -2.6 %-11.0 mm58.5 mphside by side
295/55R2234.8" +2.6 %+11.0 mm61.5 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.


275/50R23138 mm sidewall — 9% less
275/60R21165 mm sidewall — 9% more
305/45R23137 mm sidewall — 9% less
295/55R21162 mm sidewall — 7% more
255/55R23140 mm sidewall — 7% less
255/65R21166 mm sidewall — 10% 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
255/60R2230.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,041
295/50R2229.7 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,913
265/55R2229.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,872
285/55R2230.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,128
265/60R2230.5 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,180