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Sidewall

315/60R23

315 mm across the tread, a sidewall 60% of that — 189 mm — on a 23-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 37.9 inches tall.

189 mm sidewall962 mm · 37.9"
Sidewall
7.44"
189 mm
Overall
37.9"
962.2 mm
Circumference
119.0"
3.023 m
Revs per mile
532
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 37.9×12.4R23 — 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
295/65R2338.1" +0.6 %+2.8 mm60.3 mphside by side
335/55R2337.5" -1.0 %-4.8 mm59.4 mphside by side
305/60R2337.4" -1.2 %-6.0 mm59.3 mphside by side
325/60R2338.4" +1.2 %+6.0 mm60.7 mphside by side
305/65R2338.6" +1.9 %+9.3 mm61.2 mphside by side
325/55R2337.1" -2.1 %-10.3 mm58.7 mphside by side
295/60R2336.9" -2.5 %-12.0 mm58.5 mphside by side
335/60R2338.8" +2.5 %+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.


335/60R22201 mm sidewall — 6% more
295/60R24177 mm sidewall — 6% less
285/70R22200 mm sidewall — 6% more
325/55R24179 mm sidewall — 5% less
315/55R24173 mm sidewall — 8% less
315/65R22205 mm sidewall — 8% 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
295/65R2330.2 mph50.3 mph70.4 mph10,057
335/55R2329.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,901
305/60R2329.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,875
325/60R2330.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,125
305/65R2330.6 mph51.0 mph71.3 mph10,192