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Sidewall

285/60R20

285 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 171 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 33.5 inches tall.

171 mm sidewall850 mm · 33.5"
Sidewall
6.73"
171 mm
Overall
33.5"
850.0 mm
Circumference
105.1"
2.670 m
Revs per mile
603
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 8" and 10.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 273 mm across at the narrow end and 298 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 33.5×11.2R20 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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10 drivers have filed a complaint. 0 of them ended in a crash, and nobody was hurt. Nobody died.

10 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 separation6
blowout4

Where the wheel is named, 8 of 10 were on the rear, and 2 on the front.

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
265/65R2033.6" +0.3 %+1.3 mm60.2 mphside by side
305/55R2033.2" -0.8 %-3.3 mm59.5 mphside by side
275/60R2033.0" -1.4 %-6.0 mm59.2 mphside by side
295/60R2033.9" +1.4 %+6.0 mm60.8 mphside by side
275/65R2034.1" +1.8 %+7.8 mm61.1 mphside by side
295/55R2032.8" -2.1 %-8.8 mm58.8 mphside by side
265/60R2032.5" -2.8 %-12.0 mm58.3 mphside by side
305/60R2034.4" +2.8 %+12.0 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.


265/60R21159 mm sidewall — 7% less
305/60R19183 mm sidewall — 7% more
315/50R21158 mm sidewall — 8% less
285/65R19185 mm sidewall — 8% more
285/55R21157 mm sidewall — 8% less
265/70R19186 mm sidewall — 8% 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
265/65R2030.1 mph50.1 mph70.2 mph10,029
305/55R2029.8 mph49.6 mph69.5 mph9,924
275/60R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,859
295/60R2030.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,141
275/65R2030.5 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,182