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Sidewall

305/55R20

305 mm across the tread, a sidewall 55% of that — 168 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 33.2 inches tall.

168 mm sidewall844 mm · 33.2"
Sidewall
6.60"
168 mm
Overall
33.2"
843.5 mm
Circumference
104.3"
2.650 m
Revs per mile
607
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 33.2×12.0R20 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

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

What let goComplaints
tread separation1

Where the wheel is named, 1 of 1 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
285/60R2033.5" +0.8 %+3.3 mm60.5 mphside by side
325/50R2032.8" -1.2 %-5.3 mm59.3 mphside by side
295/55R2032.8" -1.3 %-5.5 mm59.2 mphside by side
315/55R2033.6" +1.3 %+5.5 mm60.8 mphside by side
295/60R2033.9" +2.2 %+9.3 mm61.3 mphside by side
315/50R2032.4" -2.4 %-10.3 mm58.5 mphside by side
285/55R2032.3" -2.6 %-11.0 mm58.4 mphside by side
325/55R2034.1" +2.6 %+11.0 mm61.6 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.


285/55R21157 mm sidewall — 7% less
275/65R19179 mm sidewall — 7% more
325/55R19179 mm sidewall — 7% more
315/50R21158 mm sidewall — 6% less
305/60R19183 mm sidewall — 9% more
305/50R21153 mm sidewall — 9% 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
285/60R2030.2 mph50.4 mph70.5 mph10,077
325/50R2029.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,876
295/55R2029.6 mph49.3 mph69.1 mph9,870
315/55R2030.4 mph50.7 mph70.9 mph10,130
295/60R2030.7 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,219