MGF Wheels and 6j

[UKPhilTR7]

Lounge at some mgf wheels and came across "6j". Not sure what this means as I thought the 14 to 16 inch was the main bit. Can anyone throw some light on this and if they will be ok for our cars.

[bonnietiler]

It means that it is a 6" wide rim with a "J" type Tyre/rim contour (most common)
There are also J, JJ, K, JK, B, P and D : Tyre bead profiles / rim contour designations.
Some 4x4 use JJ, old Jaguars use K and some older Volkies use B fr'instance.
Cheers
Bonnietiler

[dursleyman]

Don't you just love the fact that almost all cars still use imperial measurements for wheel and tyre sizes. I can think of a couple of cars that tried metric sizes like some models of the Metro and Montego, and I think some run-flats, but everything else is good old imperial.

Russ

1980 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

http://tr7russ.blogspot.co.uk/

[bonnietiler]

It's even better really cos we use a combination of the 2 systems
195/60/16 f'rinstance
195mm + 16inches...used all over the world?