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Sidewall

295/60R23

295 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 177 mm — on a 23-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 36.9 inches tall.

177 mm sidewall938 mm · 36.9"
Sidewall
6.97"
177 mm
Overall
36.9"
938.2 mm
Circumference
116.0"
2.947 m
Revs per mile
546
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 36.9×11.6R23 — 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
275/65R2337.1" +0.4 %+1.8 mm60.2 mphside by side
315/55R2336.6" -0.8 %-3.8 mm59.5 mphside by side
285/60R2336.5" -1.3 %-6.0 mm59.2 mphside by side
305/60R2337.4" +1.3 %+6.0 mm60.8 mphside by side
285/65R2337.6" +1.8 %+8.3 mm61.1 mphside by side
305/55R2336.2" -2.0 %-9.3 mm58.8 mphside by side
275/60R2336.0" -2.6 %-12.0 mm58.5 mphside by side
315/60R2337.9" +2.6 %+12.0 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.


315/60R22189 mm sidewall — 7% more
275/60R24165 mm sidewall — 7% less
325/50R24163 mm sidewall — 8% less
295/55R24162 mm sidewall — 8% less
295/65R22192 mm sidewall — 8% more
275/70R22193 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
275/65R2330.1 mph50.2 mph70.3 mph10,037
315/55R2329.8 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,920
285/60R2329.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,872
305/60R2330.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,128
285/65R2330.5 mph50.9 mph71.2 mph10,176