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Sidewall

335/60R21

335 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 201 mm — on a 21-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 36.8 inches tall.

201 mm sidewall935 mm · 36.8"
Sidewall
7.91"
201 mm
Overall
36.8"
935.4 mm
Circumference
115.7"
2.939 m
Revs per mile
548
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 9.5" and 12.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 320 mm across at the narrow end and 350 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 36.8×13.2R21 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 21-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
315/65R2137.1" +0.8 %+3.8 mm60.5 mphside by side
355/55R2136.4" -1.2 %-5.8 mm59.3 mphside by side
325/60R2136.4" -1.3 %-6.0 mm59.2 mphside by side
345/60R2137.3" +1.3 %+6.0 mm60.8 mphside by side
325/65R2137.6" +2.2 %+10.3 mm61.3 mphside by side
345/55R2135.9" -2.4 %-11.3 mm58.6 mphside by side
315/60R2135.9" -2.6 %-12.0 mm58.5 mphside by side
355/60R2137.8" +2.6 %+12.0 mm61.5 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.


355/60R20213 mm sidewall — 6% more
315/60R22189 mm sidewall — 6% less
345/55R22190 mm sidewall — 6% less
325/65R20211 mm sidewall — 5% more
335/55R22184 mm sidewall — 8% less
335/65R20218 mm sidewall — 8% 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
315/65R2130.2 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,080
355/55R2129.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,877
325/60R2129.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,872
345/60R2130.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,128
325/65R2130.7 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,219