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Sidewall

355/45R18

355 mm across the tread, a sidewall 45% of that — 160 mm — on a 18-inch rim. That puts the whole wheel at 30.6 inches tall.

160 mm sidewall777 mm · 30.6"
Sidewall
6.29"
160 mm
Overall
30.6"
776.7 mm
Circumference
96.1"
2.440 m
Revs per mile
660
per minute at 60 mph

What it needs to sit on

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It mounts on a rim between 10" and 13" wide, and the tread follows the rim: roughly 5 mm of section width for every half-inch, so about 340 mm across at the narrow end and 370 mm at the wide one. Written the way lift kits and wheel wells are, it is a 30.6×14.0R18 — 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
345/45R1830.2" -1.2 %-4.5 mm59.3 mphside by side
335/50R1831.2" +2.0 %+7.8 mm61.2 mphside by side
335/45R1829.9" -2.3 %-9.0 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.


325/45R19146 mm sidewall — 8% less
335/45R19151 mm sidewall — 6% less
335/50R17168 mm sidewall — 5% more
355/40R19142 mm sidewall — 11% less
335/40R20134 mm sidewall — 16% less
345/40R20138 mm sidewall — 14% 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
345/45R1829.7 mph49.4 mph69.2 mph9,884
335/50R1830.6 mph51.0 mph71.4 mph10,200
335/45R1829.3 mph48.8 mph68.4 mph9,768