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225/40 R21 Tires

Everything we know about the 225/40 R21 tire size: 1 owner reviews covering 5,500 miles of driving, and EU label data for the tires you can actually buy in it.

  • 1owner reviews
  • 5,500 milescovered on them
225/40 R21 To scale, mm
Ø 713 225 90 21" 90

What does 225/40 R21 mean?

A 225/40 R21 tire is 225 mm wide, its sidewall is 40% of that width (90 mm) tall, and it fits a 21 inch wheel. That gives an overall diameter of roughly 713 mm.

225/40 R21 nominal dimensions
Section width225 mm
Sidewall height90 mm
Rim diameter21" (533 mm)
Overall diameter≈ 713 mm
Circumference≈ 2,241 mm
Revolutions per km≈ 446
Revolutions per mile≈ 718

Also written as

225/40R21 225/40 ZR21 225-40-21 225 40 21

Figures are calculated from the nominal size. A loaded, rolling tire runs a few percent smaller, and true widths vary slightly between makes.

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What cars use 225/40 R21 tires?

The cars most often running this size in our owner reviews. Each links to the best rated tires for that exact car.

What drivers say about their 225/40 R21 tires

The most recent owner reviews fitted in this size, in their own words.

56%
Continental Sport Contact 6 225/40 R21 Volvo XC60 5,500 miles November 6, 2022
Rubbish, stay away from them. Less than 10,000 km out of these and they already need replacing. Also the soft compound picks up stones easily and flings them up which will destroy the paint on anything that you're towing (discovered the hard way)

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Where this data comes from

Owner ratings are submitted through the review form on this site, naming the tire, the size and the distance covered, and are checked by hand before publication. Test results come from independent published tire tests indexed by size, and label values from the EU EPREL database.

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The Tire Reviews Score rates each tire out of 10 using independent test results and the full body of owner reviews, so you can check a car-specific ranking against the wider evidence.

Who does the testing

Every test published as a Tire Reviews test is run by Jonathan Benson, who has been testing tires independently since 2007.

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