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Sidewall

235/75R23

235 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 176 mm — on a 23-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 36.9 inches tall.

176 mm sidewall937 mm · 36.9"
Sidewall
6.94"
176 mm
Overall
36.9"
936.7 mm
Circumference
115.9"
2.943 m
Revs per mile
547
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 6.5" and 8.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 225 mm across at the narrow end and 245 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 36.9×9.3R23 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 23-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
255/70R2337.1" +0.5 %+2.3 mm60.3 mphside by side
245/70R2336.5" -1.0 %-4.8 mm59.4 mphside by side
245/75R2337.5" +1.6 %+7.5 mm61.0 mphside by side
255/65R2336.1" -2.2 %-10.5 mm58.7 mphside by side
235/70R2336.0" -2.5 %-11.8 mm58.5 mphside by side
235/80R2337.8" +2.5 %+11.8 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.


235/80R22188 mm sidewall — 7% more
255/65R24166 mm sidewall — 6% less
225/85R22191 mm sidewall — 9% more
255/75R22191 mm sidewall — 9% more
265/70R22186 mm sidewall — 5% more
245/65R24159 mm sidewall — 10% 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
255/70R2330.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,048
245/70R2329.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,899
245/75R2330.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,160
255/65R2329.3 mph48.9 mph68.4 mph9,776
235/70R2329.2 mph48.7 mph68.2 mph9,749