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Sidewall

305/40R19

305 mm across the tread, a sidewall 40% of that — 122 mm — on a 19-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 28.6 inches tall.

122 mm sidewall727 mm · 28.6"
Sidewall
4.80"
122 mm
Overall
28.6"
726.6 mm
Circumference
89.9"
2.283 m
Revs per mile
705
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 293 mm across at the narrow end and 318 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 28.6×12.0R19 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 19-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
295/40R1928.3" -1.1 %-4.0 mm59.3 mphside by side
315/40R1928.9" +1.1 %+4.0 mm60.7 mphside by side
285/45R1929.1" +1.7 %+6.3 mm61.0 mphside by side
285/40R1928.0" -2.2 %-8.0 mm58.7 mphside by side
325/40R1929.2" +2.2 %+8.0 mm61.3 mphside by side
325/35R1928.0" -2.3 %-8.3 mm58.6 mphside by side
295/45R1929.5" +3.0 %+10.8 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.


335/40R18134 mm sidewall — 10% more
275/40R20110 mm sidewall — 10% less
315/35R20110 mm sidewall — 10% less
295/45R18133 mm sidewall — 9% more
305/35R20107 mm sidewall — 13% less
305/45R18137 mm sidewall — 13% 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
295/40R1929.7 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,890
315/40R1930.3 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,110
285/45R1930.5 mph50.9 mph71.2 mph10,172
285/40R1929.3 mph48.9 mph68.5 mph9,780
325/40R1930.7 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,220