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Sidewall

195/65R18

195 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 127 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 28.0 inches tall.

127 mm sidewall711 mm · 28.0"
Sidewall
4.99"
127 mm
Overall
28.0"
710.7 mm
Circumference
87.9"
2.233 m
Revs per mile
721
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 28.0×7.7R18 — 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
215/60R1828.2" +0.6 %+2.3 mm60.4 mphside by side
185/70R1828.2" +0.8 %+2.8 mm60.5 mphside by side
205/60R1827.7" -1.1 %-3.8 mm59.4 mphside by side
185/65R1827.5" -1.8 %-6.5 mm58.9 mphside by side
205/65R1828.5" +1.8 %+6.5 mm61.1 mphside by side
215/55R1827.3" -2.4 %-8.5 mm58.6 mphside by side
195/60R1827.2" -2.7 %-9.8 mm58.4 mphside by side
195/70R1828.7" +2.7 %+9.8 mm61.6 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.


215/65R17140 mm sidewall — 10% more
175/80R17140 mm sidewall — 10% more
185/75R17139 mm sidewall — 9% more
205/55R19113 mm sidewall — 11% less
225/50R19113 mm sidewall — 11% less
195/60R19117 mm sidewall — 8% 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
215/60R1830.2 mph50.3 mph70.4 mph10,063
185/70R1830.2 mph50.4 mph70.5 mph10,077
205/60R1829.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,894
185/65R1829.5 mph49.1 mph68.7 mph9,817
205/65R1830.5 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,183