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145/75R18

145 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 109 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 26.6 inches tall.

109 mm sidewall675 mm · 26.6"
Sidewall
4.28"
109 mm
Overall
26.6"
674.7 mm
Circumference
83.5"
2.120 m
Revs per mile
759
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 4" and 5.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 138 mm across at the narrow end and 153 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 26.6×5.7R18 — 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
155/70R1826.5" -0.1 %-0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
135/80R1826.5" -0.2 %-0.8 mm59.9 mphside by side
145/70R1826.0" -2.1 %-7.3 mm58.7 mphside by side
145/80R1827.1" +2.1 %+7.3 mm61.3 mphside by side
135/75R1826.0" -2.2 %-7.5 mm58.7 mphside by side
155/75R1827.2" +2.2 %+7.5 mm61.3 mphside by side
155/65R1825.9" -2.4 %-8.0 mm58.6 mphside by side
125/80R1825.9" -2.6 %-8.8 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.


175/70R17123 mm sidewall — 13% more
155/80R17124 mm sidewall — 14% more
165/80R16132 mm sidewall — 21% more
175/75R16131 mm sidewall — 21% more
175/85R15149 mm sidewall — 37% 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
155/70R1830.0 mph50.0 mph69.9 mph9,993
135/80R1829.9 mph49.9 mph69.8 mph9,978
145/70R1829.4 mph48.9 mph68.5 mph9,785
145/80R1830.6 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,215
135/75R1829.3 mph48.9 mph68.4 mph9,778