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Sidewall

185/80R18

185 mm across the tread, a sidewall 80% of that — 148 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 29.7 inches tall.

148 mm sidewall753 mm · 29.7"
Sidewall
5.83"
148 mm
Overall
29.7"
753.2 mm
Circumference
93.2"
2.366 m
Revs per mile
680
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 29.7×7.3R18 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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2 drivers have filed a complaint. 0 of them ended in a crash, and nobody was hurt. Nobody died.

2 of them name what let go, and it is most often blowout. Hankook is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blowout2

Where the wheel is named, 2 of 2 were on the rear, and 0 on the front.

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
195/75R1829.5" -0.5 %-1.8 mm59.7 mphside by side
205/70R1829.3" -1.2 %-4.5 mm59.3 mphside by side
205/75R1830.1" +1.5 %+5.8 mm60.9 mphside by side
195/80R1830.3" +2.1 %+8.0 mm61.3 mphside by side
185/75R1828.9" -2.5 %-9.3 mm58.5 mphside by side
185/85R1830.4" +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.


215/75R17161 mm sidewall — 9% more
195/70R19137 mm sidewall — 8% less
205/65R19133 mm sidewall — 10% less
205/80R17164 mm sidewall — 11% more
185/85R17157 mm sidewall — 6% more
215/65R19140 mm sidewall — 6% 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
195/75R1829.9 mph49.8 mph69.7 mph9,954
205/70R1829.6 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,881
205/75R1830.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,153
195/80R1830.6 mph51.1 mph71.5 mph10,212
185/75R1829.3 mph48.8 mph68.3 mph9,754