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Sidewall

135/65R18

135 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 88 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 24.9 inches tall.

87.8 mm sidewall633 mm · 24.9"
Sidewall
3.45"
88 mm
Overall
24.9"
632.7 mm
Circumference
78.3"
1.988 m
Revs per mile
810
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 3.5" and 5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 128 mm across at the narrow end and 143 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 24.9×5.3R18 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 18-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
125/70R1824.9" -0.1 %-0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
125/75R1825.4" +1.9 %+6.0 mm61.1 mphside by side
125/65R1824.4" -2.1 %-6.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
145/65R1825.4" +2.1 %+6.5 mm61.2 mphside by side
135/70R1825.4" +2.1 %+6.8 mm61.3 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.


155/65R17101 mm sidewall — 15% more
125/80R17100 mm sidewall — 14% more
135/75R17101 mm sidewall — 15% more
145/70R17102 mm sidewall — 16% more
165/70R16116 mm sidewall — 32% more
145/80R16116 mm sidewall — 32% 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
125/70R1830.0 mph50.0 mph69.9 mph9,992
125/75R1830.6 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,190
125/65R1829.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,795
145/65R1830.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,205
135/70R1830.6 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,213