MGF steel spare wheels

And as your newly acquired Marlin will be significantly lighter than the MGF there should be no problem.
On a similar note are the wheels on the rover 214/216 the same stud pattern as the MGF?

Think I need to see an actual MGF wheel and check out any information on the side of the tyre. I assumed normal 175/65/14 Goodyear but suppose it could be a version of a spacesaver.

Paul H

The tyres are a standard tyre. In fact the steel wheels and the tyres were the same as fitted to late maestro and montego models. The sticker is just because the tyres on the front were 185 and 205 rear, on at least a 15" rim, hence the warning sticker.

I may be wrong on this, but I always thought the '80' referred to 80kmph (nearer 50mph)?

As mentioned, this is largely because many spare wheels are of a different size to others on the car, so you'll have two different sizes across an axle. Technically illegal, except as a 'get you to a garage' scenario. The restriced speed means you shouldn't be running around indefinitely on a different sized tyre doing your normal speeds up and down the motorway (for example).

It's also, I believe, because it standardises the recommended speed for spares that aren't the same size as the standard tyres on the car, even if the speed rating for that particular tyre is set higher. This is more imortant when considering some of the really skinny space savers or even some of those mad inflating ones. They really shouldn't be driven fast on due to their construction, load VS speed rating and massively increased handling differences to the standard tyres (ever gone into a damp corner a bit fast with a skinny space saver on the front??), so the speed rating has been generally set at 80/50 across pretty much all 'non original size' spares to cover all bases.