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Sidewall

195/55R18

195 mm across the tread, a sidewall 55% of that — 107 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 26.4 inches tall.

107 mm sidewall672 mm · 26.4"
Sidewall
4.22"
107 mm
Overall
26.4"
671.7 mm
Circumference
83.1"
2.110 m
Revs per mile
763
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 5.5" and 7" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 188 mm across at the narrow end and 203 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 26.4×7.7R18 — 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
215/50R1826.5" +0.1 %+0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
185/60R1826.7" +1.1 %+3.8 mm60.7 mphside by side
205/50R1826.1" -1.4 %-4.8 mm59.2 mphside by side
185/55R1826.0" -1.6 %-5.5 mm59.0 mphside by side
205/55R1826.9" +1.6 %+5.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
195/50R1825.7" -2.9 %-9.8 mm58.3 mphside by side
195/60R1827.2" +2.9 %+9.8 mm61.7 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.


185/65R17120 mm sidewall — 12% more
215/55R17118 mm sidewall — 10% more
215/45R1997 mm sidewall — 10% less
205/45R1992 mm sidewall — 14% less
175/70R17123 mm sidewall — 14% more
195/50R1998 mm sidewall — 9% 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
215/50R1830.0 mph50.0 mph70.1 mph10,007
185/60R1830.3 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,112
205/50R1829.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,859
185/55R1829.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,836
205/55R1830.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,164