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Sidewall

315/25R18

315 mm across the tread, a sidewall 25% of that — 79 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 24.2 inches tall.

78.8 mm sidewall615 mm · 24.2"
Sidewall
3.10"
79 mm
Overall
24.2"
614.7 mm
Circumference
76.0"
1.931 m
Revs per mile
833
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 8.5" and 11.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 300 mm across at the narrow end and 330 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 24.2×12.4R18 — 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
305/25R1824.0" -0.8 %-2.5 mm59.5 mphside by side
325/25R1824.4" +0.8 %+2.5 mm60.5 mphside by side
335/25R1824.6" +1.6 %+5.0 mm61.0 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.


305/30R1792 mm sidewall — 16% more
295/30R1789 mm sidewall — 12% more
315/30R1795 mm sidewall — 20% more
295/35R16103 mm sidewall — 31% more
305/35R16107 mm sidewall — 36% more
285/35R16100 mm sidewall — 27% 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
305/25R1829.8 mph49.6 mph69.4 mph9,919
325/25R1830.2 mph50.4 mph70.6 mph10,081
335/25R1830.5 mph50.8 mph71.1 mph10,163