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Steel vs Alloy wheels

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20 Dec 2012 22:03 #55884 by supergaz
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I like the quality of my Daihatsu alloys, these can be picked up very cheap.
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20 Dec 2012 22:07 #55886 by pgatensuk
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Those Daihatsu alloys look like my Wolfrace alloys -

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Mine were cheap too. brought new from the importer in Maldon

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20 Dec 2012 23:59 #55892 by facade
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Alloy wheels corrode very quickly and leak.

(The tree huggers have stopped us using proper chromate primer on alloy, so the paint flakes off, corrosion builds between tyre and rim, which is porous, and the tyre goes down.)

Stick to steel if you can get them.
If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there :)

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21 Dec 2012 00:30 #55893 by BigMat
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Cheers for the replies guys very interesting and informative next question if you were going to fit a 235 or above tyre on the rim would you go for a seven or eight inch wide wheel?? :)

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21 Dec 2012 00:46 #55894 by TomDK
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BigMat wrote: Cheers for the replies guys very interesting and informative next question if you were going to fit a 235 or above tyre on the rim would you go for a seven or eight inch wide wheel?? :)


I have 235s on standard Jimmy alloys. They're 5,5" or 6" wide.. No problems with that :)

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21 Dec 2012 01:08 #55895 by Jimny J
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Possibly already been said above, but alloy rims are not even necessarily lighter than steels in most cases, especially factory fits. They're just there for looks alone. You can buy stronger, lighter 4x4 alloy rims, but they are not cheap.

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