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How Bad Are $500 Wheels Off Amazon Prime? Here's What You MUST Check Before Buying Cheap Wheels.
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In this video, we explore the fact that the U.S. Government and the Department of Transportation or DOT, doesn't require any safety or performance testing on aftermarket or replica wheels. This means that wheels can be sold here without knowing if they are safe. I show you three easy way to determine if a cheap aftermarket wheel is safe for you, and we go over voluntary testing procedures that some wheel manufacturers use from countries like Japan and Germany. I also touch on the fact that some purists and car dealerships think you can only use factory OEM wheels or expensive aftermarket wheels.
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What wheels have cracked or bent for you?
LegitStreetCars idk if it’s the weight of my car or tire size but I have a w218 CLS63 I keep getting bent wheels I have bent and repaired my OEM wheels twice and I have also had vossens that have bent on me and also another set of aftermarket I forgot brand but they bent on me as well. What could be causing this? The weight of my car? My tirEs are in spec should I go thicker?
My factory wheels wheels on my e55 amg (LR)
OEM wheels
Cheapass Chinese wheels man 🙄
until now? nonne of the 14 sets of wheels i owned in my driving life, and none of the cars i drove which aren't mine. But i tend to go for the smallest diameter of wheels and highest sidewall of tires i am allowed to use. (can be tricky when 18" are just big enough to fit over the brakes.)
I own a wheel refurb/straightening/welding shop in Norway. I have probably straightened 10.000 rims and welded 1.000 in the last ten years and this is my experience:
Both OEMs and Chinese aftermarket rims get bent and crack. OEM rims are usually much easier to straighten out again and are always of a superior alloy than the cheap ones, making a good weld/straight job easy and long lasting. Cast OEMs are also A LOT thicker than their Chinese counterparts, sometimes we see Chinese rims half the thickness of a standard BMW x5 or Telsa rim being put on such cars, often with horrible consequences, such as multiple cracks in one wheel, constantly losing air and destroying tires.
Some Chinese and Taiwan rims work fine, and it's usually when bought in normal sizes, say 16-18 inch. The real problems occur when you buy big rims with skinny tires and put them on heavy cars. The DOT, JWL and VIA stamps are mostly just for show and I doubt they have any validity. How can a wheel made with half the thickness and often inferior alloy(they mix in cheaper stuff than aluminium to keep costs down) perform just as well and have the same load rating as the much more solid OEM wheel? It can't.
Last point is finish and corrosion resistance. The OEMs often (but not always ie gen1 Tesla S) have an epoxy primer powdercoat underneath the color and clear coat, making them more durable in the winter months. Here in Norway we have heavy winters and salt roads, causing heavy corrosion on winter wheels. We often see the aftermarket wheels fail long before the OEMs do, with paint falling off, alloy corroding, leaking air etc.
German producers such as BBS, Borbet, Italian Speedline or OZ, generally produce high quality aftermarket wheels. Vossen makes a solid rim, though we stripped the paint of a set of 22"x11 wheels of a Mercedes ML, and all wheels had cracks between the rim and the spokes, totaling 6-10 cracks pr wheel.... Size matters! I always go with more tire and less rim :)
just my 2 cents
Great comment. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Great information there, those Chinese copies sound scary. BBS and Speedline make wheels that manufacturers use, so many are the same as OEM just in a different box, and OZ are widely used in motorsport.
Great to hear from someone that is an actual expert in the field. I have had mixed results with Chinese wheels- some have been reasonably good, others are absolute garbage, but they are never ever as good as OEM. As Alex say's, do your homework and get the wheel that suits your needs. For normal street driving a good set of Chinese will do fine, but if you are racing or have a reall hi-po road car you really should spend the extra on OEM quality wheels.
Ive just downsized from 18" to 17" partly for this reason but also tyre cost. 17s can be significantly cheaper and often more durable/puncture resistant.
Nice to hear from an expert. Your comment about Size Matters I believe it's key. More rubber between you and the road is best!
the intro is the most cringey thing i have ever seen
Perfect!! I strive for cringy, haha.
Right. I dont like or sub for these types of shit videos.
I looked over my shoulder a couple times and I'm home alone, shit is fucking weird
I almost couldn't even get through it
It's on purpose you shit-scented lampshade
My stock Toyota Yaris wheels hold me and my 300lb girlfriend and her cooler full of snacks
Damn bro. That's one tough ass wheels! Thinking bout getting a toyota 🤔
More to love i assume??
Does it have room for one more, trying to get rid of mines
Must look funny getting out of that thing lol
Weight capacity of a Yaris is like 800 pounds so probably not.
Honey is garbage slowed my laptop down so much and never found any discounts that I couldn't have found myself.
Thank you for that review.
Maybe you should use Honey to buy a new pc.
a lightweight addon like honey wont do that but alright
willing to bet you have a poor pc to begin with. most likely limited RAM. a browser add on won't do that, especially honey.
Ikr, piece of shit doesn't even work good.
That whole beginning skit is how I feel when I don't take my car to go get a oil change from the dealer😂😂😂
I actually have a lot to say about this subject. I've been involved in the auto industry in some capacity for a decade, five of those were at a shop that handed pretty much every high end wheel brand and car brand on the market. Here's a secret, no type of wheel is safe from bends or cracks. I've never seen a wheel fail that wasn't due to a major accident happening. As far as bending goes, OEM and aftermarket are both prone to it depending how thin the tires are, we certainly sent out plenty of both to get repaired. The worst wheels we dealt with were high end multipiece wheels. Pick a brand, I've seen them all crack/get repaired and crack again. Everyone likes to tout them as easy to repair and super strong but we replaced several sets with one piece wheels. As long as whatever wheels you're buying have been tested and are from a reputable company, they're fine.
Correction.. Sorry Alex. Forged Wheel: Made by forging (forming) a single piece of metal into the final shape.
Cast Wheel: Molten metal is poured into a form and cast into the final shape.
Billet Wheel: Machined or cut out of a solid piece of metal into the final shape.
also available, forged billet.
@@tvr3937 good point!, You are correct. There are a few other specialized typed for sure .
Forged is billet, just go look "Vossen Forged Wheels | How It's Made" They take one solid piece and use CNC machine to cut out final piece. A piece from article " a forged wheel begins as a solid piece of metal referred to as a “billet". Usually word billed is used for pistons, compressor wheels etc. Not car wheels.
@@DuBstep115 Nope, you are quite wrong about this.
You can employ these processes sequentially, sure, but in engineering terms a part machined from billet stock (which might be cold rolled, might be cast, might be forged, extruded, all sorts) is very different from a part which is forged, ie: beaten into shape by a tool.
The features of microstructure and grain size are completely different depending upon the forming process, but in simple terms there are three basic ways that car wheels are produced, and they are named by the process which produces *the final shape*
Some parts are forged then machined, some parts are machined then forged... none of this is totally simple.
@@weareallbeingwatched4602 There are 3 as you said. Cast, forged(billet) and flow form. I just provided fact to backup my claim. Not a single "forged" wheel is really forged with hammer and anvil. Forged = cnc machined billet wheel. So how am I wrong?
Did it really take 3 minutes for this video to start? WTF?
Lmao
People who think you should never modify a vehicle must be incredibly boring people. I think being able to modify a car to better suit your taste is a very beautiful thing. Modifying cars is not inherently bad. A well done project car can be at least as reliable and functional as a stock one and often more functional depending on the mods. It just needs to be done with care and with high quality and compatible parts. I know I'm saying the obvious here, but it's crazy that there are people that don't realize or understand that.
Lol that Chicago accent attempt was solid
There was a LOT of 2007+ mercedes with DEFECTIVE wheels that mercedes lied to client and charge them for new ones. They were later caught and had to admit factory flaws. So youre not that much safer with OEM
In what universe this happened? Write link to source, please - otherwise its another "my friends cousins daughter saw her friend saying" kind of tales.
But I agree with you :) OEM doesnt mean better straight away. For example, AMG OEM wheels are heavier than aftermarket wheels, and mostly important - they are made of very soft metal so its very very easy to bent them. We in our service center had a lot of Mercs with AMG wheels - all owners said the same. You have to be very careful with them.
Cheers.
@@DarVienasAs
m.carcomplaints.com/news/2017/mercedes-benz-cracked-wheels-lawsuit-dismissed.shtml
Looks to me like it really happened, but the prosecutors thought they would win with the sheer number of complainants and flubbed their prosecution by not being prepared to prove the wheels failings in court. That's just bad lawyerin'.
Never cracked or bent a wheel which has really suprised me considering aome of theae chicago pot holes. I run with a little meat on the tires though to help absorb some of the impact.
Can't get my head around the fact that a 500$ wheel like this is considered "cheap". Two of them and they cost more than my entire car did.
Was expecting 500 per set
Waiiittttt !?!?? So you’re telling me Alex paid $500 a piece ??? No , in the beginning of the video he says “this is $1300 of wheels” referring to both cars , so it was $500 for 1 set and $800 for the other set , my OEM rims for my CLA 45 AMG go for $500 a piece used
Michael Erving yeah look at his amazon screenshot. 82/wheel
Its 500 dollars for a set lol
I like my BBS CH. Totally worth the money. They are not forged but they are strong yes I know there heavy but I like them 19” squared on my E90 M3.
Heavy as hell also, but low pressure cast. The BBS forged are 3C as much but half the mass and much stronger.
Those 2 piece wheels from the SL65 are my favorite too. Very hard to find, expensive, heavy, and prone to cracking (apparently). I still want a set though 😂
Totally agree. I will have a set one day. Just love the look.
I have the Sl65 wheels on my car. They look awesome but you need to avoid every little pothole on the road. If you look hard you can’t find them online for sale for about 2k.
I always question what Honey does to make money. They are sponsoring this video right? So saying all Honey does is save you money has to be false. Do they get paid commission? Most likely they sell your data, including tracking what you purchase to those willing to pay for it.
They make a cut from websites that they use a coupon on. Pretty easy to garner
Now I wanna know...
They sell your info, just like how Google and Facebook make money.
Pretty much every single free computer program, web browser add-on and cellphone app logs and sells your data to data brokers. @@opsihota2118
@david chappel 😂😂 fucking dead .
I've never owned a Mercedes. I've never wanted to own a Mercedes. I damn sure have never wanted to work on a Mercedes. But I Love These Videos!!!! Thanks for posting these videos, Alex. All the Best To Ya....
LOL you saved so much $$ I was addicted to MB for 22 years only cars I would own. Sent my mechanics son to college -so I felt good about that at least. They did represent the best now not so much
From working hundreds of cars as I am a dealer and mechanic I rather work on a w211 then any of Honda and some Toyotas. Mercedes makes certain things easier then some Asian counterpart. But simply stay away from BMW from fragile hoses made of hard plastic that will crack by just pressing clips and from dumb design flaws like it's emissions evap system that sits under manifold that will eventually fail and half of the engine bay has to come out. W211 is a solid car
Dude there were a ton of cases of people buying knockoff AMG monoblocks and putting them on their w202s and within a year they'd crack around the lugs. Dangerous shit.
You are killing it Alex!
I’m a BMW guy but I really enjoy your videos. very informative
Great video. Very informative. I always wondered about the marking on the inside of the wheels and never knew what they stood for. Now I know! When shopping for wheels, I also never really paid much attention the the load rating, but rather the weight of the wheels for unsprung weight advantages. Going forward, I'll pay attention to both figures. Always great content! Thanks, Alex!
Any wheel will bent , stronger forged wheel will usually crack before it bend . The material so dense and stiff that a movement in the metal will just crack. . I ride on forged wheels only , I never buy cast . I had better luck with spun wheel . I had a set of Hre that was bent in multiple spot just driving around town .
Always watch your Vlog as soon as it is posted. Many great takeaways. Tell Pauli to “Fuggat Bout It”
I had a set of MB replicas on my previous MB C320CDI 4matic that bent and cracked because of a small pot hole on a dirt road. They worked fine for about 2 years but then thet happened and i fortunately found a nice set of 1000 Miglia wheels. On my current 98 C43 i quickly got rid of a set of 17” TSW Venom ricer wheels and put on some nice period correct 18” BBS RXs.
Jakob H my family has a set of 17” 1000Miglia wheels on our 06’ E350. They look much nicer than the stock wheels on a base 350 and we’ve had no issues with them. Got them on Craigslist for $500 with a new set of snow tires. Guy bought it for his e55 but never ended up using them.
Both cars look awesome and so do you Alex!! Nice work my man!
I've got a 2009 w211 e350 4matic v6, what kind of wheels would you recommend??
I always enjoy your videos. Great advice from someone who knows.
I'd like to have the wheels on our 2013 C300 4Matic (W204) repaired. They're scuffed (not badly) and one has a very small dent on the lip. I've had one place quote me $200/wheel, which I believe is way too expensive. The wheels are the stock 17" staggered wheels. I've even toyed with the idea of doing it myself, but I'll save that as an absolute last resort. I'll keep looking around for awhile. Advice is appreciated.
I tend to like the look of stock wheels on my MB cars. I did swap out a set of bundts on one of my W126 cars for a set of later 15 hole rims.
What a great informative video, helps out big time and learned alot of new stuff especially as i am in the market for a new set of decent inexpensive wheels. Thanks.
"before i get whacked " Lmao
Went with some Konig Dekagram rims for my 16 Fiesta ST. They sell them at Americas Tire and were just over 100 a piece. They are "flow forged" which I'm not really sure what that means but it is apparently stronger. They are wider and lighter than factory so I like them plus I think they look better than factory also.
That means the rim section is pressed when hot so that grains are aligned and making it stronger than cast.
I bought some after market wheels for my Merc SLK 350, they look great and were made in Taiwan. The oem wheels were not made by Merc,and in fact, were not even made in Germany. The oem`s were made by Ronal in the Czech Republic.A lot of Ronal wheels sell for about £1000 for a set of 4, but when bought from Merc they are 4 times the price.I figure that since Triumph motorcycles have many parts incl wheels made in Taiwan , quality should be OK,and Merc wheels are just very expensive,coz they can just get away with it.
I have those exact Niche rims in black. High quality and kick ass, slick & perfect on my BMW M5 F10! They take a beating, bend a bit when slammed on pot holes but never crack. Easily bended back with a weighted fat hammer! Easy to clean and that's a huge time saver and a plus!
If you are buying a replica wheel and it is lighter than the oem original that should be a red flag. For a given weight a forged wheel should be stronger than a cast wheel. So, copy cat wheels, which are cast, need to weigh more to have equal strength.
My wheels are pretty cheap, but they're from a well-known company and TÜV-approved for the load of the heaviest vehicle and speed of the fastest vehicle they fit on, so I'm pretty sure I'm well off. Ow yeah, bought them because an OEM wheel cracked...
Honestly the best wheels I have ever owned as far as bending or cracking are alzor wheels from ecs tuning
Re OEM Wheels, agree with Alex. I actually have genuine AMG wheels on my E55 and 3 of the 4 have cracked so far. Thankfully I have been able to get them welded and repaired (@$250 AUD each time), because I have been quoted $1500 AUD plus per wheel to replace them (and that is for used replacements!)
hey i have those verdes on my e55! my car looks just like yours too, ive smashed some serious holes by accident not a single dent no loss of air whatso ever, other super pro about the verdes they match the hub perfect, no ring, only con not the lightest more unsprung weight, whatever greatest looking wheel for the price, im running indy firehawk 275 30 and 245 35, for a non directoinal tire i think its one of the greatest tires ive ever messed with.
You Betta like dis video or else!
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Hey Alex, I’m glad u didn’t get whacked.... 😂 Good acting brother!!
Lol... From the safest city in America. Thank you Alex for another great and informative video.
Hey man, will a maxidas computer scanner perform a rodeo test on a mercedes
Very informative video! Would you be able to touch on wheel offsets. I don’t really understand that topic. All I do know is I like the flush look.
With spacers you can adjust the ET
or buy 4 hub caps for $10?
I don’t give a shit I paid bmw retail for factory OEM Gold 763M wheels for my F83 M4 alpine white convertible with red leather interior $8,000 later she’s freaking amazing, the price is because new Michelins and sensors and self leveling BMW center caps, OEM !
Look for "KBA" or an "E" followed by a Number inside a circle. It means tested for on Road use in Germany/Europe
Hey Alex, I've been watching you since about 8k subs and you have had the most improvement of any RUclipsr that I watch. And I watch almost all the automotive guys. Great job.
Thanks Robert! Appreciate that so much!
Alex
@@LegitStreetCars you got it man. Now take the TA to the strip and film it for us!!
I do have a video from last year of the TA at the track. Check it out!
@@LegitStreetCars will do.
Just because the wheel has all the appropriate stamping doesn't necessarily mean it meets those standards. Chinese manufacturers are not above just stamping the wheel like it was tested.
Here's how I decide which aftermarket wheels to buy.... Are they forged or cast. If forged, yes. If cast, no. Sure, some cast wheels, like Enkei's Racing line are good quality, but many cast wheels aren't. No, you absolutely cannot trust stamps on non-Japanese Asian wheels. The Chinese and Taiwanese factories stamp the wheels without actually testing them. This doesn't just apply to wheels. I've seen Chinese headlights that absolutely were not DOT legal that had DOT stamps on them.
So when i bought this gti, it did not have wheel lock nut key, so now mechanics tell me that they would pretty much destroy trying to take it out, and that its the only way. Thats why im here, does anyone know any good and cheap rims? $70-$120 each
i actually enjoy my wheels i got for my car. they were literally a 100 dollars a piece brand new. obviously cheap, knock off. they are knock offs of RAYS CE 28ns. they have taken serious abuse, the roads drive on with this car are full of pot holes and bumps and just transitions from repaired sections of the road and rough road all together.
i got them on ebay, i was somewhat hesitant but im happy with the purchase. its been about 2 years. car is normally driven on canyon roads tight turns, hard acceleration etc. the wheels have never shown any signs of cracks, bends, or have any balance problems.
And ontop of that most people think they are real volks. but being me i point out to them out to tell that they're reps. usually the moment you mention their reps you get this hate but i dont care. i feel like im perfectly safe with these and they look exactly like the wheels i can't afford ie ( 3800 usd )
I have seen OEM wheels fail.
The argument that they are always superior is bull
Cast wheel no matter made by bmw or linglong china uses same aluminum thus has exact same properties.
@@DuBstep115 Maybe. Maybe not. Casting aluminum can be tricky. Just because it may be the same alloy doesn't mean it is the same strength. The casting temperatures and cooling rates can make a difference.
I was your 500th LIKE! You crack me up with the comedy intro's in your videos and then follow up with SOLID content! You really are LEGIT!
GVWR is the maximum weight rating with the recommended tires at their maximum recommended pressure. Moral of the story when you are changing around tires and wheels, make sure you are not installing a heavier and weaker gravity cast wheel of a lower strength rating nor a correctly fitted tire of a lower weight rating nor a lower speed rating due to a weaker construction.
You could always spend $5,500 on used Rolls Royce wheels and tires like Tyler Hoover!
lmao that intro, OMG I subbed!, Also those look like E class
It's funny that people will replace the OEM forged wheels with cast wheels form China and act like it's a upgrade, it's not.
thank you, work in wheels and tires for many years and there is many thing you mention here i didnt know, cheers
HAHAHA. excellent video and probably the best car channel on RUclips
Damn, last time I was this early, Alex's T/A was still stock!
Hahaha
Also that yellow welder behind you tells me a lot my welding units are all Miller
A friend bought a chrome plated Pitman Arm for his Hot Rod from Speedway Motors. It was made in China. On his shakedown cruise, his Hot Rod pulled violently to the left in the grass median on the highway. The Pitman Arm had snapped in two. A photo of the Pitman Arm showed it was cast aluminum instead of a forging. He posted his experience on a Hot Rod web-site. Someone who had purchased the same Pitman Arm examined his and found it was cracking. I'd never buy parts made in China!
Larger BMW wheels are very weak
How about fitting the wheels from your VW bay window kombi to your Mercedes w110?
The VW wheels are Way cheaper!
Excellent video and thanks for sharing tip for Honey!
Don't drive in Oklahoma, will lose wheels and tires on a regular basis. not much left to the roads out here.
Hey buddy, I am looking at the Niche Wheels also, but in a 20". How are yours holding up, and do you recommend them? I was worried about durability and also the black coating chipping off easily. Thanks!
question, AMG wheels, I found that all my wheels which are AMG 19 inch off my SL55 are Made in Belgium except for one which is made in Germany. All the stamped info on the inside is the same but its made in Germany. did not know they had a wheel factory in Germany can you expound on this or clear up my foggy mind about this. thanks
Sometimes OE wheels are the cheapest / best way to go. I got a Trans Am running $600 Z06 corvette wheels, no way I could get that deal on ebay.
Used FC Euro for my C320 Wheel Bearing. The parts came quick and were cheaper than local autopart store. Thanks
That intro was a true face palm.
Just look at load ranges on your wheels and get the same or more then stock if you go to a wider wheel it’s not
JWL doesn't actually means that the wheels conforms to JWL, nobody oversees testing process.
Aftermarket wheels that are not hubcentric can cause a lot of ride vibration problems.
Hello, pls make a maintance guide or some info about mercedes c w203, mine is 270cdi with 450000km (2001) Avantgarde, and i would love to hear advice from you how to maintain it etc. Many poor ppl like me buy this car, parts for it are for good money. I bought it few months ago (my first car btw) and i would like to make another 450000 :D My issues are rough idle, oil leak, air intake hose missing, washer fluid leak, turning light sometimes starts and i cant turn it off. Would love to repair that rough idle and leak mostly. + maintance like changing fluids, filters etc by myself. Love your videos and would love to see my car here :) Gj
11:55 My dad owns a grinder like that. Had it for over 20 years and still running strong.
Also lower quality tyres may cause the OEM wheels to crack easily. I noticed with BMW for example, the wheels are meant to be used with runflat tyres which have much stronger wall and bead, so they disperse the stress over a larger area on the wheel. If you run cheaper tyres, they do not protect the wheel the same way.
Kind of right but so wrong. you could buy 185/60/17 tyre for 20 bucks and it would protect your wheel better than 400 dollar michelin PSS 305/30/17
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I wouldn't trust any unknown Chinese factory. They often have fake test stamps or safety certification markings. I import from China and quite often they offer to put a certification stamp on the product even though the product hasn't passed any testing. Or sometimes they will have one product tested but use that certificate for whole line of different products when in reality they should have each product tested. If you want to buy aftermarket wheels just make sure you buy from a reputable factory, there are some well known budget wheel manufacturers out there.
How can you trust a stamp on the inside of a wheel? There can be any number of “certifications.” How can the end consumer be confident that they mean anything?
I bought 18” style 32's for €250 with tyres for my e46, not much point in buying new wheels if you can find them used
Elcheapo unbranded wheels will never be good. You get what you pay for. That is the reason I refuse to sell them. They usually crack instead of bend and let all the air out! No maleability.
Generally a brand name product will be a good deal better and when you break one you can generally replace it. Not good hitting a pothole on a freeway. Let alone the zillion potholes, dips, kerbs etc on metro roads. Or simply turning into a driveway at times.
Low profile tyres will always be bullshit, impractical and throws so much extra load into the suspension which in turn causes it to break. Even OEM stuff. Plus the ride is crap and generally noisy as well. Anything less than a 40 aspect smaller than 18" is simply garbage. Personally I use 16s and 60 aspect which are a trade off for ride and handling. But race and race only in 40 aspect tyres on brand name rims. And even then keep a very good eye on them as semislicks put a LOT more load into the wheels.
I sell tyres and rims,, and see so many bent and cracked rims as to rediculous. Often 30-40000km cars replacing the original tyres with 4 bent OEM rims. But they are bent and still hold air! On the odd occasion I may weld a cracked one but with the proviso they are to be checked regularly. That horrible weld on those rims are a good view of the junk out there. Many can do a simple repair, pushing out small buckles and dings but anything more costs more than the wheel. That is the reason at swap meets there is umpteen sets of 3 wheels for sale!
And forged wheels like forged pistons are stamped at high pressure from premium material. So the material is a LOT denser. And can be machined thinner though will still bend.
So called billet wheels are not machined from a billet of aluminium and would be no stronger than a decent cast wheel anyway.
And those 'balanced' wheels with about 60 grams a side are not perfectly balanced!
That was wheelie interesting stuff 😉😂 na seriously Alex that is all really handy info ! Keep your great video's coming buddy 🙂
Thanks Ryan!
Alex
@@LegitStreetCars wow Alex your response was faster than your Trans am ! Ha ha! Your literally the nicest guy on RUclips and it's great that you go out of your way always to respond to your fans!
I'm just a car guy that loves talking cars, haha. But the TA is much faster than me typing this.
@@LegitStreetCars ha ha! Well keep up the great work Alex !
My niche cast rims has been through potholes and they are fine. Pretty good quality for cast rims.
Its not a purist issue, its a downright safety issue. Parts need to be tested. DOT is garbage for safety standards. TUV is the only one I'll trust at this point since JWL and VIA are unfortunately copied while TUV is a certification granted to the manufacturer of the wheel. I wouldn't trust JWL and VIA stamps when those have been faked on chinese replica wheels for years. Seen plenty of wheels fail at the worst possible time. Never taking the risk of running cheap garbage on my build. Oem or better is what we should be aiming for.
And before anyone claims you have to be a baller to get decent wheels lets not forget, enkei, tsw, motegi, OZ, and other brands all offer TUV approved wheels at pretty affordable rates. These manufacturers spend quite a bit of money testing whether a particular design can take the weight of a car and the abuse from cornering or hitting potholes and bumps. Chinese replica's don't go into that level of detail which is why failures result.
Yes any wheel can bend or break, but that is the dumbest way of looking at any of this considering forces acting upon a wheel change situation to situation. OEM's and forged wheels that break go through a lot more abuse as opposed to gravity cast replicas.
Great explanation for people who are not aware of such things, good job, Genuine BMW Rims in my experience are terrible for cracking and breaking even, maybe that's just the roads in the UK causing half the problem tho :D
Solid video, very informative
When you have a cast stamp removed or serial number in the uk the company that makes the part for another company can buy law sell the part to other companies they just have to remove the stamp I looked into this many many years ago 👍
I have a 2002 s55 AMG. For rims what lug nut pattern should I look into. I know staggered but is it 5x112?. What’s the difference
I have the same looking wheels like on C55. :)
Is the j25530 not the tyers required 255 30 R? I've seen the strangest letters and numbers on the car's form Japan but it seems to me it will be a size of some fitting and fixing of the rim's on the over sea cars but its Germans engineering manufacturing and the fact that you probably agree there is a superior quality of product that far east so I will be happy to go a bit deeper in my pocket to get something nice for the massive amount of time I spend enjoying the car's and quality from the big German companys second to none uk have Range Rover jaguar and we all know what we have to go through with driving a range daily but at least you get to talk to the lorry driver when you get it taken home on the back of the lorry to the stupid to get the car fixed only to costs a fortune to be able to meet the lorry driver again meet week and Bentley nuff said they will be a lovely ornamental piece on you drive until you older Nuff to look ok driving it as you just look as your driving dads car no one wants a Bentley under 60
The gross torque rating would be my concern. Id be afraid of ripping the center hub out of the casting.
Alex I need to know what scanner you recommend for the old K-line 38pin Mercedes specifically my W210 Wagon. I am trying the Autel MK808 with their 38pin adapter at the moment but you have more inside information on which one someone might need or want to buy.
Thanks man!
dude the price on amazon is too low, is that only for 1 wheel?
I have a question where in the world does people even buy aftermarket parts for there car
Online, or go to a an actual performance shop and ask the guys who work there to order you wheels.
My 19 inch m sport wheels on my 435i are all bent and one was even cracked granted I do drive on shitty streets in San Diego
What are the rear wheel specs for the verde wheels? Different offset from the fronts? I dig the more concave look of the backs
I' got really confused now. the wheel you show at 9:17, why does it have the air filler valve on the inside of the rim?
Ya pretty cool, huh? That way you don't see it from the outside. Its still very accessible though
Factory oem they are made by the same people who make the after market wheel you can often find the oem patterns on the after market sites.
Looking for a good set of wheels for my 2011 Mercedes Benz E350.....what would you recommend?
Nice vid. I’m adding black Mandrus Rotec wheels to my 2014 W212 Lux
Honey is actually pretty awesome. If you're not using it, you should be.