width measure

[copeyhagen]

should have the wheels from carpo this week, so i might sell my rezax.

took a front and a back off to check width / offset.

the rear sticker says its a 9.5jj +40.
the front had no sticker so i took out my measuring tape and measured the width of the wheel. the width was either 9 or 9.5, but the rears are wider so i measured the rear and it was 10.5 or 11 across the wheel.

is that correct? cuz the sticker says 9.5 but the width was 11?

tyres on the rear are 235 / 40 with a bit of stretch
tyres on the front are 215 / 45

had no autosol to clean em but the dam things are prestine, totally unmarked just too weak an offset for the chaser.

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/2466/offset.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5350/width.jpg
fronts:
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6706/photo0112l.jpg
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7717/photo0113.jpg
rears:
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/5619/photo0114t.jpg
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5791/photo0115fo.jpg

[gem-s13]

if your getting bigger withs when mesuring them id say you are going to the out side of the dish to the very back of the rim thta is not the correct way to mesure them the J part of a mesurment means its from the inside of the rim whare the tyre sits against in so there will be about a half or quater of an inch diffrance on each end the way u mesured them

[kev.skyline]

9.5 is the measure ment from bead seat to bead seat, a in this diagram
http://www.rsracing.com/images/sectran.gif
b is what youre measuring

[keith_b]

You measure inside lip to inside lip. Its not the outside lip as you measured you really could do with the tyre off.

[copeyhagen]

yeh cheers lads thats what i had done, measured the entire wheel width, im guessin the fronts are 8.5jj so.

cheers

[copeyhagen]

wat kinda price could i put on these, bearing in mind that there honestly like new, no kerbs, scratches, one or two tiny marks all i think. and i mean tiny.

theyre getting split and polished this week.

[Alan B.]

Also just to clear up, as I used to wounder what it stood for myself, but the J in the measurement doesn't mean that you mesure from the inside of the lip. It actually stands for the shape of the lip if viewed in cross section.
yours are JJ which means they are "double skinned" or folded over.
if you had no tyre on the wheel you'd see the edge of the metal is in where the bead seat is.

[copeyhagen]

that adds 50bhp and 500euro to the price al yeah?!!! :D

[Alan B.]

oh of course, folded lips for added "fastness"

[copeyhagen]

ofolded lips for added "fastness"

like a lady

[Alan B.]

http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/sex/t15121.gif