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Sidewall

245/75R23

245 mm across the tread, a sidewall 75% of that — 184 mm — on a 23-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 37.5 inches tall.

184 mm sidewall952 mm · 37.5"
Sidewall
7.23"
184 mm
Overall
37.5"
951.7 mm
Circumference
117.7"
2.990 m
Revs per mile
538
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 37.5×9.6R23 — 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
265/70R2337.6" +0.4 %+1.8 mm60.2 mphside by side
235/80R2337.8" +0.9 %+4.3 mm60.5 mphside by side
255/70R2337.1" -1.1 %-5.3 mm59.3 mphside by side
235/75R2336.9" -1.6 %-7.5 mm59.1 mphside by side
255/75R2338.1" +1.6 %+7.5 mm60.9 mphside by side
265/65R2336.6" -2.4 %-11.5 mm58.5 mphside by side
245/70R2336.5" -2.6 %-12.3 mm58.5 mphside by side
245/80R2338.4" +2.6 %+12.3 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.


245/80R22196 mm sidewall — 7% more
245/70R24172 mm sidewall — 7% less
265/65R24172 mm sidewall — 6% less
265/75R22199 mm sidewall — 8% more
235/85R22200 mm sidewall — 9% more
275/70R22193 mm sidewall — 5% 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
265/70R2330.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,037
235/80R2330.3 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,089
255/70R2329.7 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,890
235/75R2329.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,842
255/75R2330.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,158