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Sidewall

315/50R20

315 mm across the tread, a sidewall 50% of that — 158 mm — on a 20-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.4 inches tall.

158 mm sidewall823 mm · 32.4"
Sidewall
6.20"
158 mm
Overall
32.4"
823.0 mm
Circumference
101.8"
2.586 m
Revs per mile
622
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 8.5" and 11.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 300 mm across at the narrow end and 330 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 32.4×12.4R20 — 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
295/55R2032.8" +1.2 %+4.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
305/50R2032.0" -1.2 %-5.0 mm59.3 mphside by side
325/50R2032.8" +1.2 %+5.0 mm60.7 mphside by side
335/45R2031.9" -1.6 %-6.8 mm59.0 mphside by side
295/50R2031.6" -2.4 %-10.0 mm58.5 mphside by side
335/50R2033.2" +2.4 %+10.0 mm61.5 mphside by side
305/55R2033.2" +2.5 %+10.3 mm61.5 mphside by side
325/45R2031.5" -2.7 %-11.3 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.


285/60R19171 mm sidewall — 9% more
325/45R21146 mm sidewall — 7% less
345/50R19173 mm sidewall — 10% more
285/50R21143 mm sidewall — 10% less
305/55R19168 mm sidewall — 7% more
295/50R21148 mm sidewall — 6% 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
295/55R2030.3 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,115
305/50R2029.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,878
325/50R2030.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,122
335/45R2029.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,836
295/50R2029.3 mph48.8 mph68.3 mph9,757