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Sidewall

325/45R18

325 mm across the tread, a sidewall 45% of that — 146 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 29.5 inches tall.

146 mm sidewall750 mm · 29.5"
Sidewall
5.76"
146 mm
Overall
29.5"
749.7 mm
Circumference
92.7"
2.355 m
Revs per mile
683
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 29.5×12.8R18 — 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
315/45R1829.2" -1.2 %-4.5 mm59.3 mphside by side
335/45R1829.9" +1.2 %+4.5 mm60.7 mphside by side
305/50R1830.0" +1.7 %+6.3 mm61.0 mphside by side
345/40R1828.9" -2.2 %-8.3 mm58.7 mphside by side
305/45R1828.8" -2.4 %-9.0 mm58.6 mphside by side
345/45R1830.2" +2.4 %+9.0 mm61.4 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.


335/40R19134 mm sidewall — 8% less
295/45R19133 mm sidewall — 9% less
315/50R17158 mm sidewall — 8% more
295/55R17162 mm sidewall — 11% more
325/50R17163 mm sidewall — 11% more
325/40R19130 mm sidewall — 11% 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
315/45R1829.6 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,880
335/45R1830.4 mph50.6 mph70.8 mph10,120
305/50R1830.5 mph50.8 mph71.2 mph10,167
345/40R1829.3 mph48.9 mph68.5 mph9,780
305/45R1829.3 mph48.8 mph68.3 mph9,760