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305/50R20

305 mm across the tread, a sidewall 50% of that — 153 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.0 inches tall.

153 mm sidewall813 mm · 32.0"
Sidewall
6.00"
153 mm
Overall
32.0"
813.0 mm
Circumference
100.6"
2.554 m
Revs per mile
630
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 32.0×12.0R20 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

3 of them name what let go, and it is most often tread separation. Hankook is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
tread separation2
road hazard1
not stated1

Where the wheel is named, 3 of 3 were on the front — the end that steers.

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
285/55R2032.3" +1.0 %+4.3 mm60.6 mphside by side
295/50R2031.6" -1.2 %-5.0 mm59.3 mphside by side
315/50R2032.4" +1.2 %+5.0 mm60.7 mphside by side
325/45R2031.5" -1.5 %-6.3 mm59.1 mphside by side
295/55R2032.8" +2.4 %+9.8 mm61.4 mphside by side
285/50R2031.2" -2.5 %-10.0 mm58.5 mphside by side
325/50R2032.8" +2.5 %+10.0 mm61.5 mphside by side
315/45R2031.2" -2.6 %-10.8 mm58.4 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.


275/60R19165 mm sidewall — 8% more
315/45R21142 mm sidewall — 7% less
335/50R19168 mm sidewall — 10% more
275/50R21138 mm sidewall — 10% less
305/55R19168 mm sidewall — 10% more
305/45R21137 mm sidewall — 10% less

Tires graded in this size

Longest-lasting tread first. The grade is set by the maker and checked by regulators.


TireTreadwearWet grip
Yokohama Geolandar H/T-S500A
National Velozza ZXV4420A
Yokohama Parada Spec-X420A

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
285/55R2030.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,105
295/50R2029.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,877
315/50R2030.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,123
325/45R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,846
295/55R2030.7 mph51.2 mph71.7 mph10,240