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Sidewall

295/70R23

295 mm across the tread, a sidewall 70% of that — 207 mm — on a 23-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 39.3 inches tall.

207 mm sidewall997 mm · 39.3"
Sidewall
8.13"
207 mm
Overall
39.3"
997.2 mm
Circumference
123.3"
3.133 m
Revs per mile
514
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 39.3×11.6R23 — 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
275/75R2339.2" -0.1 %-0.3 mm60.0 mphside by side
315/65R2339.1" -0.4 %-1.8 mm59.8 mphside by side
285/70R2338.7" -1.4 %-7.0 mm59.2 mphside by side
285/75R2339.8" +1.5 %+7.3 mm60.9 mphside by side
305/65R2338.6" -1.7 %-8.3 mm59.0 mphside by side
275/70R2338.2" -2.8 %-14.0 mm58.3 mphside by side
295/75R2340.4" +3.0 %+14.7 mm61.8 mphside by side
295/65R2338.1" -3.0 %-14.8 mm58.2 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.


325/60R24195 mm sidewall — 6% less
275/70R24193 mm sidewall — 7% less
295/65R24192 mm sidewall — 7% less
295/75R22221 mm sidewall — 7% more
305/65R24198 mm sidewall — 4% less
315/60R24189 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
275/75R2330.0 mph50.0 mph70.0 mph9,995
315/65R2329.9 mph49.8 mph69.8 mph9,965
285/70R2329.6 mph49.3 mph69.0 mph9,860
285/75R2330.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,145
305/65R2329.5 mph49.2 mph68.8 mph9,835