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Sidewall

185/75R18

185 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 139 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 28.9 inches tall.

139 mm sidewall735 mm · 28.9"
Sidewall
5.46"
139 mm
Overall
28.9"
734.7 mm
Circumference
90.9"
2.308 m
Revs per mile
697
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 5" and 6.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 178 mm across at the narrow end and 193 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 28.9×7.3R18 — 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
195/70R1828.7" -0.6 %-2.3 mm59.6 mphside by side
205/70R1829.3" +1.3 %+4.8 mm60.8 mphside by side
205/65R1828.5" -1.5 %-5.5 mm59.1 mphside by side
195/75R1829.5" +2.0 %+7.5 mm61.2 mphside by side
185/70R1828.2" -2.5 %-9.3 mm58.5 mphside by side
185/80R1829.7" +2.5 %+9.3 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.


195/65R19127 mm sidewall — 9% less
215/70R17151 mm sidewall — 8% more
205/75R17154 mm sidewall — 11% more
175/85R17149 mm sidewall — 7% more
215/60R19129 mm sidewall — 7% less
205/60R19123 mm sidewall — 11% less

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
195/70R1829.8 mph49.7 mph69.6 mph9,939
205/70R1830.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,129
205/65R1829.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,850
195/75R1830.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,204
185/70R1829.2 mph48.7 mph68.2 mph9,748