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Sidewall

295/30R20

295 mm across the tread, a sidewall 30% of that — 89 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 27.0 inches tall.

88.5 mm sidewall685 mm · 27.0"
Sidewall
3.48"
89 mm
Overall
27.0"
685.0 mm
Circumference
84.7"
2.152 m
Revs per mile
748
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 8.5" and 11" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 283 mm across at the narrow end and 308 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 27.0×11.6R20 — tall by wide, in inches.

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
285/30R2026.7" -0.9 %-3.0 mm59.5 mphside by side
305/30R2027.2" +0.9 %+3.0 mm60.5 mphside by side
275/30R2026.5" -1.8 %-6.0 mm58.9 mphside by side
315/30R2027.4" +1.8 %+6.0 mm61.1 mphside by side
275/35R2027.6" +2.3 %+7.8 mm61.4 mphside by side
315/25R2026.2" -2.8 %-9.8 mm58.3 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.


305/25R2176 mm sidewall — 14% less
285/35R19100 mm sidewall — 13% more
295/35R19103 mm sidewall — 17% more
315/25R2179 mm sidewall — 11% less
265/30R2180 mm sidewall — 10% less
325/30R1998 mm sidewall — 10% 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
285/30R2029.7 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,912
305/30R2030.3 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,088
275/30R2029.5 mph49.1 mph68.8 mph9,825
315/30R2030.5 mph50.9 mph71.2 mph10,175
275/35R2030.7 mph51.1 mph71.6 mph10,226