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315/80R22.5

315 mm across the tread, a sidewall 80% of that — 252 mm — on a 22.5-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 42.3 inches tall.

252 mm sidewall1076 mm · 42.3"
Sidewall
9.92"
252 mm
Overall
42.3"
1075.5 mm
Circumference
133.0"
3.379 m
Revs per mile
476
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 42.3×12.4R22.5 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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3 drivers have filed a complaint. 0 of them ended in a crash, hurting 2 people. Nobody died.

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

What let goComplaints
blowout2
tread separation1

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 3 were on the rear, and 1 on the front.

What fits instead

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Same 22.5-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
305/80R22.541.7" -1.5 %-8.0 mm59.1 mphside by side
315/75R22.541.1" -2.9 %-15.8 mm58.2 mphside by side
295/80R22.541.1" -3.0 %-16.0 mm58.2 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.


285/80R24.5228 mm sidewall — 10% less
305/75R24.5229 mm sidewall — 9% less
295/75R24.5221 mm sidewall — 12% less
315/70R24.5221 mm sidewall — 13% 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
305/80R22.529.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,851
315/75R22.529.1 mph48.5 mph67.9 mph9,707
295/80R22.529.1 mph48.5 mph67.9 mph9,702