Highway / All-Season
Best for quiet daily, wet roads, long treadlife.
3rd gen Tacoma · 2018
2018 Tacoma Limited tire size.
The factory tire and wheel package for the 2018 Toyota Tacoma Limited, with dimensions, upgrade sizes, and what fits without a lift.
Factory tire size
Our fitment data puts the 2018 Toyota Tacoma Limited on P265/60R18 tires with 18-in alloy wheels — the common factory pattern for this model year rather than a trim mapping we can source. Confirm the exact size on the driver's door placard or the tire sidewall before you buy.
- On the 2018 Limited, P265/60R18 measures 30.5 in tall and 10.4 in wide, with a 6.3 in sidewall and 661 revolutions per mile.
- The 2018 Limited is listed as likely standard on Double Cab, with the tire recorded as all-season.
- Modeled estimate: a stock-height 3rd gen Tacoma like the 2018 Limited tops out near 265/70R17 (~31.6 in) on factory offset.
- Common factory pattern — not verified against a year-specific Toyota document.
Stock size and dimensions
all-season on 18-in alloy
What 265/60R18 measures — diameter, width, sidewall, and the other Tacoma trims that ship it.
- Diameter
- 30.52 in
- Width
- 10.43 in
- Sidewall
- 6.26 in
- Revs / mile
- 661
Sizes for the 2018 Tacoma Limited follow the common factory pattern for the 3rd gen Tacoma — confirm yours on the door placard or the tire sidewall.
What P265/60R18 measures on a 2018 Tacoma Limited
P265/60R18 is 265 mm wide at a 60 percent sidewall ratio on an 18-inch wheel. Through standard tire math that is 30.5 in of overall diameter, 10.4 in of section width, a 6.3 in sidewall, and about 661 revolutions per mile — the figures behind the 2018 Limited's speedometer calibration. That package is likely standard on Double Cab, riding 18-in alloy wheels.
Note the P prefix on the 2018 Limited's factory size (P265/60R18): that is a P-metric passenger-rated tire, not an LT light-truck size. The same 265/60R18 in LT form runs a stiffer casing, a higher load rating, and more weight.
No other 2018 Tacoma trim in our data runs P265/60R18. The nearest neighbours on the 2018 chart are TRD Sport on P265/65R17 (the same height) and SR on P245/75R16 (0.1 in shorter) — the comparison to make if you are cross-shopping trims on tire size.
Bigger tires on a 2018 Tacoma Limited
Staying on the factory 18-inch wheel of a 2018 Limited, 1 size in our candidate set clears at stock height with no lift and no trimming, and inside the modeled stock ceiling of 31.6 in: 265/65R18 at 31.6 in. Set against the 2018 Limited's P265/60R18, the closest of them comes out 1.0 in taller and the same width. Current TRD Sport and Limited 18-inch factory-class size.
Past that, the 18-inch sizes our set offers a 2018 Limited need suspension or clearance work: 285/65R18 (32.6 in) sits behind a level / 1-2 in setup with minor changes, 265/70R18 (32.6 in) clears our candidate table at factory height but sits above the modeled stock ceiling for a 3rd gen Tacoma (31.6 in), so we publish the conservative read: plan for a leveling kit, and 275/70R18 (33.2 in) sits behind a level / 1-2 in setup with minor changes. Those tiers come from our fitment rule-set, not a truck we measured; lower-offset wheels push each one harder into the fender.
Add a leveling kit and our generation fitment matrix estimates a 3rd gen Tacoma at 275/70R17 (~32.2 in) — 1.7 in taller than the 2018 Limited's P265/60R18. Clearance work it lists: Remove mud flaps. 285/70R17 (33s) fits street-only with fender-liner trim + heat gun, but rubs off-road at full lock. These are modeled estimates, not measured installs: offset, alignment, and the tire's real moulded size all move the answer.
Where the Limited sits in the 2018 Tacoma lineup
Sorted by factory tire diameter, the 2018 Tacoma trims we cover run from P245/75R16 at 30.5 in (SR and SR5 4-cylinder) up to P265/70R16 at 30.6 in (TRD Off-Road and TRD Pro). The Limited's P265/60R18 is 2nd of the 4 distinct sizes in that spread: 2 trims run a taller factory tire and 2 run a shorter one.
A caution for 2018: this model year is not proven against a year-specific Toyota document, so read the size above as the common factory pattern for a 2018 Limited, not a verified trim-level spec. 2017 through 2020 share the same factory tire lineup, and 2018 sits inside that span. The door-jamb placard and the sidewall on the truck settle it.
Top-ranked 265/60R18 tires for a 2018 Tacoma Limited
Our tire dataset scores 3 models available in 265/60R18, the size the 2018 Tacoma Limited runs from the factory on all-season. All 3 are below, in our research rank order.
Toyo Open Country H/T II
6.7/10Highway / All-Season
Best for quiet daily, wet roads, long treadlife.
Highway / All-Season
Best for quiet daily, wet roads, value.
Scores are a 0-10 editorial synthesis of published reviews, manufacturer specifications, and retailer fitment data — not tires we tested ourselves. Availability in 265/60R18 for the 2018 Limited comes from that dataset's own size catalog, and the shortlist follows the dataset's editorial rank — the 0-10 figure beside each pick is the blended score, one input to that rank rather than the thing it sorts on, so a model further down the rank can carry a higher number. How we source and score.
2018 Tacoma Limited tire questions
Our two sources disagree here, so this page publishes the conservative one. On the 2018 Limited's factory wheel the nearest 33-class size in our candidate set is 285/65R18 at 32.6 in, and our per-size rules put it behind a level / 1-2 in setup with minor changes; the generation matrix is looser, putting a stock-height 3rd gen Tacoma at 265/70R17 (~31.6 in). Plan for the leveling kit, and treat both as modeled estimates rather than installs we measured.
Our data lists the 2018 Limited on 18-in alloy — an 18-inch wheel. Across the whole 2018 range we cover 16-inch, 17-inch, and 18-inch wheels, so wheel diameter is one of the things that changes between trims. Keeping the factory diameter keeps the sidewall the truck was tuned for, and it keeps the tire choices in our size data open to you.
On a 2018 Limited, P265/60R18 works out to 30.5 in of overall diameter and 10.4 in of section width, on an 18-inch wheel with a 6.3 in sidewall. The math is the standard one: 265 mm of width at a 60 percent ratio gives the sidewall, and diameter is the 18-inch rim plus twice that sidewall. At that size the tire turns about 661 revolutions per mile.
Open the driver's door of the Limited and read the tire and loading information placard on the door jamb: it carries the original tire size and the cold inflation pressures set for it. Then read the sidewall of the tire actually fitted, since a previous owner may have changed sizes. For 2018 we treat the Limited mapping as the common factory pattern rather than a sourced trim-level spec, so the placard outranks any table, including this one.