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225/70R18

225 mm across the tread, a sidewall 70% of that — 158 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 30.4 inches tall.

158 mm sidewall772 mm · 30.4"
Sidewall
6.20"
158 mm
Overall
30.4"
772.2 mm
Circumference
95.5"
2.426 m
Revs per mile
663
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 6" and 8.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 213 mm across at the narrow end and 238 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 30.4×8.9R18 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

6 of them name what let go, and it is most often crack. Pirelli is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
crack3
tread separation2
blowout1
not stated1

Where the wheel is named, 6 of 6 were on the front — the end that steers.

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
245/65R1830.5" +0.5 %+1.8 mm60.3 mphside by side
205/75R1830.1" -1.0 %-3.8 mm59.4 mphside by side
215/75R1830.7" +1.0 %+3.8 mm60.6 mphside by side
235/65R1830.0" -1.2 %-4.8 mm59.3 mphside by side
205/80R1830.9" +1.7 %+6.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
215/70R1829.9" -1.8 %-7.0 mm58.9 mphside by side
235/70R1831.0" +1.8 %+7.0 mm61.1 mphside by side
245/60R1829.6" -2.7 %-10.5 mm58.4 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.


245/70R17172 mm sidewall — 9% more
205/70R19144 mm sidewall — 9% less
195/75R19146 mm sidewall — 7% less
225/65R19146 mm sidewall — 7% less
225/75R17169 mm sidewall — 7% more
215/80R17172 mm sidewall — 9% 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
245/65R1830.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,045
205/75R1829.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,903
215/75R1830.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,097
235/65R1829.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,877
205/80R1830.5 mph50.8 mph71.2 mph10,168