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Sidewall

325/35R18

325 mm across the tread, a sidewall 35% of that — 114 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 27.0 inches tall.

114 mm sidewall685 mm · 27.0"
Sidewall
4.48"
114 mm
Overall
27.0"
684.7 mm
Circumference
84.7"
2.151 m
Revs per mile
748
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 9" and 12" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 310 mm across at the narrow end and 340 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 27.0×12.8R18 — 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
315/35R1826.7" -1.0 %-3.5 mm59.4 mphside by side
335/35R1827.2" +1.0 %+3.5 mm60.6 mphside by side
305/35R1826.4" -2.0 %-7.0 mm58.8 mphside by side
345/35R1827.5" +2.0 %+7.0 mm61.2 mphside by side
305/40R1827.6" +2.4 %+8.3 mm61.4 mphside by side
345/30R1826.1" -3.0 %-10.3 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.


315/40R17126 mm sidewall — 11% more
335/30R19101 mm sidewall — 12% less
295/35R19103 mm sidewall — 9% less
345/30R19104 mm sidewall — 9% less
325/40R17130 mm sidewall — 14% more
325/30R1998 mm sidewall — 14% 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
315/35R1829.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,898
335/35R1830.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,102
305/35R1829.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,796
345/35R1830.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,204
305/40R1830.7 mph51.2 mph71.7 mph10,241