Ok I call
If you took the ORIGINAL rims off this car and put them on ( with no tires ) and measured the distance between the bottom of the dif and the ground and then took the CURRENT rims on the car ( with no tires ) and measured the distance between the diff and the ground it would be different,in fact it would sit taller.
Tell me I am wrong, I dare ya!!
You're not wrong, but also not correct either.
The tire sidewall height has everything to do with it. Rim size is only how the tire fit's onto the wheel. The TIRE's overall diameter is much larger than that of OEM, by coincidence, the rims are also larger in this example. But it doesn't have to be.
It would be like going half way to a destination. Yes the rims are larger, but the the "wheel" itself doesn't stop at the rim, it goes all the way to the ground where the tire rubber is. You're leaving out a very important part of the measurement.
So pick apart this logic.
You have a 31" tall tire (outside edge of the rubber to the opposite outside edge). Tire's are measured based on their outside diameter. ALL of them.
Which is larger?
A) A 31" tire with a 22" rim?
or
B) A 31" tire with a 15" rim?
*edit:
That car also has a lift kit on it to fit those things, because those tires are not even close to OEM sizing.
*Edit again:
These are some 44" TSL boggers. They look about a 15" rim. By your logic, if I put these tires on instead of those "ballin" things, it should lower it, substantially. These are obviously smaller rims, even if they aren't 15" they're still smaller by a large margin.