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Sidewall

285/65R20

285 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 185 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 34.6 inches tall.

185 mm sidewall879 mm · 34.6"
Sidewall
7.29"
185 mm
Overall
34.6"
878.5 mm
Circumference
108.7"
2.760 m
Revs per mile
583
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 34.6×11.2R20 — 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 tread separation. B.f.goodrich is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
tread separation2

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 2 were on the rear, and 0 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
265/70R2034.6" +0.1 %+0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
305/60R2034.4" -0.5 %-2.3 mm59.7 mphside by side
275/65R2034.1" -1.5 %-6.5 mm59.1 mphside by side
295/65R2035.1" +1.5 %+6.5 mm60.9 mphside by side
275/70R2035.2" +1.7 %+7.3 mm61.0 mphside by side
295/60R2033.9" -1.9 %-8.3 mm58.9 mphside by side
265/65R2033.6" -3.0 %-13.0 mm58.2 mphside by side
305/65R2035.6" +3.0 %+13.0 mm61.8 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.


305/65R19198 mm sidewall — 7% more
265/65R21172 mm sidewall — 7% less
315/55R21173 mm sidewall — 6% less
265/75R19199 mm sidewall — 7% more
285/70R19200 mm sidewall — 8% more
285/60R21171 mm sidewall — 8% 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
265/70R2030.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph10,006
305/60R2029.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,949
275/65R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,852
295/65R2030.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,148
275/70R2030.5 mph50.8 mph71.2 mph10,165