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245/75R18

245 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 184 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.5 inches tall.

184 mm sidewall825 mm · 32.5"
Sidewall
7.23"
184 mm
Overall
32.5"
824.7 mm
Circumference
102.0"
2.591 m
Revs per mile
621
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 7" and 9" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 235 mm across at the narrow end and 255 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 32.5×9.6R18 — tall by wide, in inches.

What goes wrong on this size

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

1 of them name what let go, and it is most often blowout. Goodyear is named more than any other brand.

What let goComplaints
blowout1
not stated1

Where the wheel is named, 1 of 1 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
265/70R1832.6" +0.4 %+1.8 mm60.3 mphside by side
225/80R1832.2" -0.9 %-3.8 mm59.5 mphside by side
235/80R1832.8" +1.0 %+4.3 mm60.6 mphside by side
255/70R1832.1" -1.3 %-5.3 mm59.2 mphside by side
235/75R1831.9" -1.8 %-7.5 mm58.9 mphside by side
225/85R1833.1" +1.8 %+7.5 mm61.1 mphside by side
255/75R1833.1" +1.8 %+7.5 mm61.1 mphside by side
265/65R1831.6" -2.8 %-11.5 mm58.3 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.


245/70R19172 mm sidewall — 7% less
245/80R17196 mm sidewall — 7% more
215/80R19172 mm sidewall — 6% less
265/65R19172 mm sidewall — 6% less
265/75R17199 mm sidewall — 8% more
225/75R19169 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
265/70R1830.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,042
225/80R1829.7 mph49.5 mph69.4 mph9,909
235/80R1830.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,103
255/70R1829.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,873
235/75R1829.5 mph49.1 mph68.7 mph9,818