Skip to content
Sidewall

195/60R18

195 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 117 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 27.2 inches tall.

117 mm sidewall691 mm · 27.2"
Sidewall
4.61"
117 mm
Overall
27.2"
691.2 mm
Circumference
85.5"
2.171 m
Revs per mile
741
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

i

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 27.2×7.7R18 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

i

Same 18-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
215/55R1827.3" +0.4 %+1.3 mm60.2 mphside by side
185/65R1827.5" +0.9 %+3.3 mm60.6 mphside by side
205/55R1826.9" -1.2 %-4.3 mm59.3 mphside by side
185/60R1826.7" -1.7 %-6.0 mm59.0 mphside by side
205/60R1827.7" +1.7 %+6.0 mm61.0 mphside by side
215/50R1826.5" -2.7 %-9.5 mm58.4 mphside by side
195/55R1826.4" -2.8 %-9.8 mm58.3 mphside by side
195/65R1828.0" +2.8 %+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.


185/70R17130 mm sidewall — 11% more
215/60R17129 mm sidewall — 10% more
175/75R17131 mm sidewall — 12% more
205/50R19103 mm sidewall — 12% less
195/55R19107 mm sidewall — 8% less
195/65R17127 mm sidewall — 8% 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
215/55R1830.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,036
185/65R1830.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,094
205/55R1829.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,877
185/60R1829.5 mph49.1 mph68.8 mph9,826
205/60R1830.5 mph50.9 mph71.2 mph10,174