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Sidewall

155/65R18

155 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 101 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 25.9 inches tall.

101 mm sidewall659 mm · 25.9"
Sidewall
3.97"
101 mm
Overall
25.9"
658.7 mm
Circumference
81.5"
2.069 m
Revs per mile
778
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 148 mm across at the narrow end and 163 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 25.9×6.1R18 — 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
135/75R1826.0" +0.2 %+0.5 mm60.1 mphside by side
145/70R1826.0" +0.2 %+0.8 mm60.1 mphside by side
135/70R1825.4" -1.9 %-6.3 mm58.9 mphside by side
145/65R1825.4" -2.0 %-6.5 mm58.8 mphside by side
135/80R1826.5" +2.2 %+7.3 mm61.3 mphside by side
155/70R1826.5" +2.4 %+7.8 mm61.4 mphside by side
145/75R1826.6" +2.4 %+8.0 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.


175/65R17114 mm sidewall — 13% more
185/60R17111 mm sidewall — 10% more
145/80R17116 mm sidewall — 15% more
155/75R17116 mm sidewall — 15% more
145/75R17109 mm sidewall — 8% more
155/80R16124 mm sidewall — 23% 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
135/75R1830.0 mph50.1 mph70.1 mph10,015
145/70R1830.1 mph50.1 mph70.2 mph10,023
135/70R1829.4 mph49.1 mph68.7 mph9,810
145/65R1829.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,803
135/80R1830.7 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,220