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Sidewall

325/50R18

325 mm across the tread, a sidewall 50% of that — 163 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 30.8 inches tall.

163 mm sidewall782 mm · 30.8"
Sidewall
6.40"
163 mm
Overall
30.8"
782.2 mm
Circumference
96.7"
2.457 m
Revs per mile
655
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 30.8×12.8R18 — 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
315/50R1830.4" -1.3 %-5.0 mm59.2 mphside by side
335/50R1831.2" +1.3 %+5.0 mm60.8 mphside by side
305/55R1831.2" +1.3 %+5.3 mm60.8 mphside by side
345/45R1830.2" -1.9 %-7.3 mm58.9 mphside by side
305/50R1830.0" -2.6 %-10.0 mm58.5 mphside by side
345/50R1831.6" +2.6 %+10.0 mm61.5 mphside by side
315/55R1831.6" +2.7 %+10.8 mm61.6 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.


335/45R19151 mm sidewall — 7% less
295/60R17177 mm sidewall — 9% more
315/55R17173 mm sidewall — 7% more
295/50R19148 mm sidewall — 9% less
305/50R19153 mm sidewall — 6% less
325/55R17179 mm sidewall — 10% 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
315/50R1829.6 mph49.4 mph69.1 mph9,872
335/50R1830.4 mph50.6 mph70.9 mph10,128
305/55R1830.4 mph50.7 mph70.9 mph10,134
345/45R1829.4 mph49.1 mph68.7 mph9,815
305/50R1829.2 mph48.7 mph68.2 mph9,744