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275/75R24.5

275 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 206 mm — on a 24.5-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 40.7 inches tall.

206 mm sidewall1035 mm · 40.7"
Sidewall
8.12"
206 mm
Overall
40.7"
1034.8 mm
Circumference
128.0"
3.251 m
Revs per mile
495
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 40.7×10.8R24.5 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

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

What let goComplaints
blowout1

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

What fits instead

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Same 24.5-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
295/70R24.540.8" +0.0 %+0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
265/80R24.541.2" +1.1 %+5.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
285/70R24.540.2" -1.3 %-6.8 mm59.2 mphside by side
265/75R24.540.1" -1.4 %-7.5 mm59.1 mphside by side
285/75R24.541.3" +1.4 %+7.5 mm60.9 mphside by side
275/70R24.539.7" -2.7 %-13.8 mm58.4 mphside by side
275/80R24.541.8" +2.7 %+13.8 mm61.6 mphside by side
295/75R24.541.9" +2.9 %+15.0 mm61.7 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.


305/75R22.5229 mm sidewall — 11% more
285/80R22.5228 mm sidewall — 11% more
295/80R22.5236 mm sidewall — 14% 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
295/70R24.530.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph10,005
265/80R24.530.3 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,111
285/70R24.529.6 mph49.3 mph69.1 mph9,870
265/75R24.529.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,855
285/75R24.530.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,145