{"id":7833,"date":"2011-08-24T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T01:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2011-11-23T14:11:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:11:39","slug":"how-to-measure-wheel-width","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/24\/how-to-measure-wheel-width\/","title":{"rendered":"How to measure wheel width."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened when you hit a pothole and damage one of your rims? \u00a0So you would need a replacement wheel. \u00a0Unfortunately, you forgot the size, width, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/23\/7817\/\">offset<\/a>. \u00a0And you couldn&#8217;t find any stickers on the barrel or any numbers stamped in the back of the wheel that seemed to make sense. \u00a0Luckily, you can find out the size by looking at the tire size printed on the sidewall, such as 245\/35ZR-20. \u00a0In this case, the rim diameter is 20 inch.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to find out the width on a bare rim (non mounted).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Correct way<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To get a correct rim width, you must measure from the bead seat (where the tire rests and seals on the inside of the rim). \u00a0This tape measurement reads 9.0 inch<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7834\" title=\"photo 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-31-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-31-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-31-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-31-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7836\" title=\"photo 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-4-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-4-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-4-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-4-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-4.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Wrong way<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you measure from the rim flange (the outermost edge of the rim), that is wrong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7835\" title=\"photo 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-2-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-2-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-2-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/photo-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened when you hit a pothole and damage one of your rims? \u00a0So you would need a replacement wheel. \u00a0Unfortunately, you forgot the size, width, and offset. \u00a0And you couldn&#8217;t find any stickers on the barrel or any numbers stamped in the back of the wheel that seemed to make sense. \u00a0Luckily, you can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/24\/how-to-measure-wheel-width\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,1180],"tags":[1049,1052],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}