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Sidewall

275/65R24

275 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 179 mm — on a 24-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 38.1 inches tall.

179 mm sidewall967 mm · 38.1"
Sidewall
7.04"
179 mm
Overall
38.1"
967.1 mm
Circumference
119.6"
3.038 m
Revs per mile
530
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 38.1×10.8R24 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 24-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
255/70R2438.1" -0.1 %-0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
295/60R2437.9" -0.4 %-1.8 mm59.8 mphside by side
265/65R2437.6" -1.3 %-6.5 mm59.2 mphside by side
285/65R2438.6" +1.3 %+6.5 mm60.8 mphside by side
265/70R2438.6" +1.4 %+6.8 mm60.8 mphside by side
285/60R2437.5" -1.6 %-7.8 mm59.0 mphside by side
255/75R2439.1" +2.6 %+12.5 mm61.6 mphside by side
255/65R2437.1" -2.7 %-13.0 mm58.4 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.


255/75R23191 mm sidewall — 7% more
295/65R23192 mm sidewall — 7% more
275/70R23193 mm sidewall — 8% more
245/80R23196 mm sidewall — 10% more
265/70R23186 mm sidewall — 4% more
285/65R23185 mm sidewall — 4% 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
255/70R2430.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph9,995
295/60R2429.9 mph49.8 mph69.7 mph9,964
265/65R2429.6 mph49.3 mph69.1 mph9,866
285/65R2430.4 mph50.7 mph70.9 mph10,134
265/70R2430.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,140