The Short Version
- 6×139.7 on a 110 mm hub bore — every grade, every year, 1989 to 2007.
- The Y61 redesign changed nothing. Unlike the Pajero, which moved its bore from 107 mm to 67 mm, the Safari kept the same hub.
- Diesel and petrol are identical. So are van and wagon.
- Body width is the variable, and it shows in the offset: narrow-body grades are +30 to +35, wide-body grades are +5 to +10.
The Constant
We look for changeovers. The Safari does not have one. Across 150 grade rows spanning the Y60 (1989–1997) and the Y61 (1997–2007), petrol and 4.2 diesel, van and wagon, narrow and wide, the answer is the same every time: 139.7 mm, 6 holes, 110 mm bore.
That is worth stating clearly because the obvious comparison invites the opposite assumption. The Mitsubishi Pajero — the same size, the same market, the same 6×139.7 — changed its hub bore from 107 mm to 67 mm at its third-generation redesign, and a wheel from one era will not sit hub-centric on the other. People reasonably expect the Safari to have done something similar at the Y60-to-Y61 change.
It did not. Nissan kept the hub.
Factory Specification
| Generation | Chassis | Body | Grade | Wheel | PCD / Holes / Bore |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y60 | KC-VRGY60 (4.2 diesel) | Narrow | Van 5-door Extra, standard roof | 6J×16 +30 | 139.7 / 6 / 110 |
| Y60 | KD-WRGY60 | Narrow | Wagon Extra, standard roof | 6J×16 +35 | 139.7 / 6 / 110 |
| Y60 | KC-VRGY60 | Wide | Van 5-door Extra, high roof | 7J×15 +5 | 139.7 / 6 / 110 |
| Y60 | KD-WRGY60 | Wide | Wagon Kings Road | 8J×16 +5 | 139.7 / 6 / 110 |
| Y61 | E-WGY61 (petrol) | Narrow | 4-door RX | 6J×16 +30 | 139.7 / 6 / 110 |
| Y61 | TA-WFGY61 | Wide | Gran Road Limited (2002–) | 8J×16 +10 | 139.7 / 6 / 110 |
| Y61 | TA-WFGY61 | Wide | Gran Road Limited (2004–) | 8J×17 +10 | 139.7 / 6 / 110 |
Typical tyre sizes run from 215/80R16 and 235/80R16 on the early narrow-body grades, through 265/70R16 across most of the range, to 275/65R17 on the last Gran Road Limited.
Read the Offset, Not the Badge
Since PCD and bore tell you nothing about which Safari a wheel came from, the offset does all the work:
- +30 or +35 on a 6J rim — narrow-body van or wagon, base or Extra grade.
- +5 or +10 on a 7J or 8J rim — wide-body: Kings Road, Gran Road, Gran Road Limited, or the two-door hardtop Spirit Type II.
That is a spread of 25 to 30 millimetres. Fit narrow-body wheels to a wide-body car and the tyre disappears under the arch; fit wide-body wheels to a narrow-body car and it stands well proud, which may or may not be legal for shaken depending on how far.
An interesting sub-case: the two-door hardtop Y61 was sold both ways. Spirit Type I is 6J×16 at +30 and Spirit Type II is 8J×16 at +10, on the same body. So even within the two-door, the trim decides.
110 mm Is a Big Hub
It is one of the largest hub registers on any Japanese vehicle we have documented, and larger than the 106 mm of the Hilux Surf or the Pajero’s 107 mm. Those three figures are close enough to be confused and far enough apart to matter.
A 6×139.7 wheel from a Surf or a second-generation Pajero will bolt to a Safari and will not sit on the hub — the register is 3 to 4 mm too small in diameter and simply will not pass over. That failure mode is at least obvious. The dangerous direction is a Safari wheel on a Surf, where the 110 mm bore is loose on the 106 mm hub and the nuts will happily pull it up anyway.
On a two-tonne vehicle with a heavy tyre, do not do this. A hub-centric ring is a few hundred yen.
Importing
The Y60 is entirely past the 25-year mark. The Y61 launched in October 1997, so cars through mid-2001 are eligible now, with the rest following to 2032.
Nissan sold the Patrol in many markets but not in the United States, so a JDM Safari is a real import there. The grades worth the effort are the 4.2 diesel wagons and the two-door hardtop, neither of which has an American equivalent.
What We Could Not Verify
- Anything before September 1989. The Y60 launched in 1987 but the database’s earliest entry is 1989.09, so the first two model years are unconfirmed — not absent, unconfirmed.
- The Safari’s relationship to export-market Patrol figures. We read the Japanese data only.