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Sidewall

325/45R23

325 mm across the tread, a sidewall 45% of that — 146 mm — on a 23-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 34.5 inches tall.

146 mm sidewall877 mm · 34.5"
Sidewall
5.76"
146 mm
Overall
34.5"
876.7 mm
Circumference
108.4"
2.754 m
Revs per mile
584
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 34.5×12.8R23 — 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
315/45R2334.2" -1.0 %-4.5 mm59.4 mphside by side
335/45R2334.9" +1.0 %+4.5 mm60.6 mphside by side
305/50R2335.0" +1.4 %+6.3 mm60.9 mphside by side
345/40R2333.9" -1.9 %-8.3 mm58.9 mphside by side
305/45R2333.8" -2.1 %-9.0 mm58.8 mphside by side
345/45R2335.2" +2.1 %+9.0 mm61.2 mphside by side
315/50R2335.4" +2.6 %+11.3 mm61.5 mphside by side
335/40R2333.6" -2.8 %-12.3 mm58.3 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.


335/40R24134 mm sidewall — 8% less
295/45R24133 mm sidewall — 9% less
355/45R22160 mm sidewall — 9% more
315/50R22158 mm sidewall — 8% more
295/55R22162 mm sidewall — 11% more
325/40R24130 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
315/45R2329.7 mph49.5 mph69.3 mph9,897
335/45R2330.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,103
305/50R2330.4 mph50.7 mph71.0 mph10,143
345/40R2329.4 mph49.1 mph68.7 mph9,812
305/45R2329.4 mph49.0 mph68.6 mph9,795