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Sidewall

325/55R18

325 mm across the tread, a sidewall 55% of that — 179 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 32.1 inches tall.

179 mm sidewall815 mm · 32.1"
Sidewall
7.04"
179 mm
Overall
32.1"
814.7 mm
Circumference
100.8"
2.559 m
Revs per mile
629
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 32.1×12.8R18 — 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
305/60R1832.4" +1.0 %+4.3 mm60.6 mphside by side
315/55R1831.6" -1.4 %-5.5 mm59.2 mphside by side
335/55R1832.5" +1.4 %+5.5 mm60.8 mphside by side
345/50R1831.6" -1.5 %-6.3 mm59.1 mphside by side
315/60R1832.9" +2.5 %+10.3 mm61.5 mphside by side
305/55R1831.2" -2.7 %-11.0 mm58.4 mphside by side
345/55R1832.9" +2.7 %+11.0 mm61.6 mphside by side
335/50R1831.2" -2.8 %-11.3 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.


295/65R17192 mm sidewall — 7% more
335/50R19168 mm sidewall — 6% less
305/55R19168 mm sidewall — 6% less
315/60R17189 mm sidewall — 6% more
325/60R17195 mm sidewall — 9% more
325/50R19163 mm sidewall — 9% 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
305/60R1830.3 mph50.5 mph70.7 mph10,104
315/55R1829.6 mph49.3 mph69.1 mph9,865
335/55R1830.4 mph50.7 mph70.9 mph10,135
345/50R1829.5 mph49.2 mph68.9 mph9,847
315/60R1830.8 mph51.3 mph71.8 mph10,252