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Sidewall

275/30R23

275 mm across the tread, a sidewall 30% of that — 83 mm — on a 23-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 29.5 inches tall.

82.5 mm sidewall749 mm · 29.5"
Sidewall
3.25"
83 mm
Overall
29.5"
749.2 mm
Circumference
92.7"
2.354 m
Revs per mile
684
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 7.5" and 10" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 263 mm across at the narrow end and 288 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 29.5×10.8R23 — 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
265/30R2329.3" -0.8 %-3.0 mm59.5 mphside by side
285/30R2329.7" +0.8 %+3.0 mm60.5 mphside by side
255/30R2329.0" -1.6 %-6.0 mm59.0 mphside by side
295/30R2330.0" +1.6 %+6.0 mm61.0 mphside by side
255/35R2330.0" +1.8 %+6.8 mm61.1 mphside by side
265/35R2330.3" +2.7 %+10.3 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.


275/35R2296 mm sidewall — 17% more
265/35R2293 mm sidewall — 12% more
245/40R2298 mm sidewall — 19% more
305/30R2292 mm sidewall — 11% more
285/35R22100 mm sidewall — 21% more
305/35R21107 mm sidewall — 29% 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
265/30R2329.8 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,920
285/30R2330.2 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,080
255/30R2329.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,840
295/30R2330.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,160
255/35R2330.5 mph50.9 mph71.3 mph10,180