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Sidewall

275/75R15

275 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 206 mm — on a 15-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 31.2 inches tall.

206 mm sidewall794 mm · 31.2"
Sidewall
8.12"
206 mm
Overall
31.2"
793.5 mm
Circumference
98.1"
2.493 m
Revs per mile
646
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 31.2×10.8R15 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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3 drivers have filed a complaint. 1 of them ended in a crash, hurting 1 person. Nobody died.

1 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 separation1
not stated2

Where the wheel is named, 1 of 1 were on the rear, and 0 on the front.

What fits instead

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Same 15-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
265/75R1530.6" -1.9 %-7.5 mm58.9 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.


275/70R16193 mm sidewall — 7% less
295/65R16192 mm sidewall — 7% less
255/75R16191 mm sidewall — 7% less
245/80R16196 mm sidewall — 5% less
305/65R16198 mm sidewall — 4% less
265/75R16199 mm sidewall — 4% less

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
265/75R1529.4 mph49.1 mph68.7 mph9,811