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Sidewall

295/60R18

295 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 177 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 31.9 inches tall.

177 mm sidewall811 mm · 31.9"
Sidewall
6.97"
177 mm
Overall
31.9"
811.2 mm
Circumference
100.3"
2.548 m
Revs per mile
631
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 8.5" and 11" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 283 mm across at the narrow end and 308 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 31.9×11.6R18 — tall by wide, in inches.

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
275/65R1832.1" +0.4 %+1.8 mm60.3 mphside by side
315/55R1831.6" -0.9 %-3.8 mm59.4 mphside by side
285/60R1831.5" -1.5 %-6.0 mm59.1 mphside by side
305/60R1832.4" +1.5 %+6.0 mm60.9 mphside by side
285/65R1832.6" +2.0 %+8.3 mm61.2 mphside by side
305/55R1831.2" -2.3 %-9.3 mm58.6 mphside by side
275/60R1831.0" -3.0 %-12.0 mm58.2 mphside by side
315/60R1832.9" +3.0 %+12.0 mm61.8 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.


275/60R19165 mm sidewall — 7% less
315/60R17189 mm sidewall — 7% more
325/50R19163 mm sidewall — 8% less
295/65R17192 mm sidewall — 8% more
295/55R19162 mm sidewall — 8% less
275/70R17193 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
275/65R1830.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,043
315/55R1829.7 mph49.5 mph69.4 mph9,908
285/60R1829.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,852
305/60R1830.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,148
285/65R1830.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,203