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Sidewall

305/65R18

305 mm across the tread, a sidewall 65% of that — 198 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 33.6 inches tall.

198 mm sidewall854 mm · 33.6"
Sidewall
7.81"
198 mm
Overall
33.6"
853.7 mm
Circumference
105.6"
2.682 m
Revs per mile
600
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 293 mm across at the narrow end and 318 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 33.6×12.0R18 — 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
285/70R1833.7" +0.3 %+1.3 mm60.2 mphside by side
325/60R1833.4" -0.8 %-3.3 mm59.5 mphside by side
295/65R1833.1" -1.5 %-6.5 mm59.1 mphside by side
315/65R1834.1" +1.5 %+6.5 mm60.9 mphside by side
295/70R1834.3" +1.9 %+8.3 mm61.2 mphside by side
315/60R1832.9" -2.2 %-9.3 mm58.7 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.


325/65R17211 mm sidewall — 7% more
285/65R19185 mm sidewall — 7% less
335/55R19184 mm sidewall — 7% less
305/60R19183 mm sidewall — 8% less
285/75R17214 mm sidewall — 8% more
315/60R19189 mm sidewall — 5% 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
285/70R1830.1 mph50.1 mph70.2 mph10,029
325/60R1829.8 mph49.6 mph69.5 mph9,924
295/65R1829.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,848
315/65R1830.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,152
295/70R1830.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,193