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Sidewall

335/40R17

335 mm across the tread, a sidewall 40% of that — 134 mm — on a 17-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 27.6 inches tall.

134 mm sidewall700 mm · 27.6"
Sidewall
5.28"
134 mm
Overall
27.6"
699.8 mm
Circumference
86.6"
2.198 m
Revs per mile
732
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 9.5" and 12.5" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 320 mm across at the narrow end and 350 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 27.6×13.2R17 — tall by wide, in inches.

What fits instead

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Same 17-inch rim, height within 3%. Past that the speedometer starts lying and things begin to rub.


SizeHeightRide heightSpeedo reads 60, you doCompare
325/40R1727.2" -1.1 %-4.0 mm59.3 mphside by side
315/45R1728.2" +2.2 %+7.8 mm61.3 mphside by side
315/40R1726.9" -2.3 %-8.0 mm58.6 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.


345/35R18121 mm sidewall — 10% less
305/40R18122 mm sidewall — 9% less
355/35R18124 mm sidewall — 7% less
335/35R18117 mm sidewall — 13% less
315/40R18126 mm sidewall — 6% less
315/35R19110 mm sidewall — 18% 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
325/40R1729.7 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,886
315/45R1730.7 mph51.1 mph71.6 mph10,221
315/40R1729.3 mph48.9 mph68.4 mph9,771