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Sidewall

275/75R20

275 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 206 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 36.2 inches tall.

206 mm sidewall921 mm · 36.2"
Sidewall
8.12"
206 mm
Overall
36.2"
920.5 mm
Circumference
113.9"
2.892 m
Revs per mile
557
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 36.2×10.8R20 — 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 blowout. Sumitomo is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blowout2

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 2 were on the front — the end that steers.

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
295/70R2036.3" +0.1 %+0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
285/70R2035.7" -1.5 %-6.8 mm59.1 mphside by side
265/75R2035.6" -1.6 %-7.5 mm59.0 mphside by side
285/75R2036.8" +1.6 %+7.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
275/70R2035.2" -3.0 %-13.8 mm58.2 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.


275/70R21193 mm sidewall — 7% less
295/65R21192 mm sidewall — 7% less
295/75R19221 mm sidewall — 7% more
255/75R21191 mm sidewall — 7% less
245/80R21196 mm sidewall — 5% less
305/65R21198 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
295/70R2030.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph10,005
285/70R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,853
265/75R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,837
285/75R2030.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,163
275/70R2029.1 mph48.5 mph67.9 mph9,701