Load Rated Alloy Wheel & Tyre Guide - Aftermarket Alloy Wheels For Vans & Heavy Cars

This video is a guide for people changing wheels on a van or heavy car, discussing the difference between fitting car wheels and load rated wheels. Load rating is important when it comes to both the van alloy wheels and the tyres, sometimes car wheels have the same fitment as vans wheels but they are not designed to carry the same weight as a van is so they are unsuitable for use. Load rated alloy wheels are designed for heavy cars and van use and are made specifically to carry more weight. Officially running car wheels & tyres on a heavier vehicle could be considered a danger so to be safer than sorry, I would always only fit wheels and tyres designed for the weight of the vehicle (or above). The wheels I fit to my van are Wolfrace wheels are are designed to carry 960kg per wheels, leaving plenty of excess carrying capacity. Most car wheels are only designed to carry between 500-700kg max. Tyre rating is also inportant when it comes to load ratings, car tyres are not designed to carry the weight of a heavier van so tyres should always be fitted accordingly to the vehicle weight. There are charts online showing the weight ratings of different tyre classes.
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[@Monkeyboy1975]

Brilliant video it’s nice to see someone with sense. The amount of time I’ve heard “I’ve run my T4 for 300 years with Audi A4 wheels and it’s been fine”…. Yes but I put my mortgage on you haven’t told your insurance company🤷🏿‍♀️

[@alanyarwood5369]

That's for the info.
Given me food for thought.

[@royw65]

Superb, great information..another top video.. running t4 with golf wheels, will check.

[@rrrrrrece]

You have it half correct,
Find your Gross Vehicle Axle weight
the heavier of the 2 in your case was 1510kg (As I could see on your vehicle detail stamp).
Divide that weight by 2, therefore - 1510kg / 2 = 755kg
this 755kg is the minimum rim capacity you'll need per rim. (For this Transporter in the video as an example)
DO NOT divide by 4, that is the mistake that most people make.

[@tomohawk5567]

Iv bin waitin f this one. Great video thanks for sharing 👍

[@kr1886]

I wasn't aware of this thanks for sharing!

[@buzzwor]

Great video just what I needed thanks

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

Glad it helped

[@paulsingh9043]

👍🏾, nice one , now I know the score!

[@johnharris6691]

Cool stuff,

[@patrickmoreline7539]

I learnt something today, thank you

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

Glad it was helpful!

[@M-Con]

awesome vid Mate, appriciate it

[@numbseafun]

I have a question. Somewhere I've read that to decide the minimum load rating that your wheels should have, you should devide the '"' heaviest axle"" gross weight by 2. The way I understand that statement is the load rating requirement for rear wheels is possibly defer from rear wheel to front ones. Do you think that's accurate?

[@petermartin3806]

Did you have a response - i have the same question?

[@richard.c.griffiths1468]

I have just bought a Vivaro and had this same thought
I came to the conclusion that under braking the load/weight transfers from the rear to the front so decided that front should be the same as rear. No real science behind this, just made sense to me.

[@davidratcliffe8701]

My Mazda bongo campervan has Mazda 3 alloys on it, and I've had a horrible experience at the weekend. The rear alloy has cracked on every spoke of the alloy. I'm convinced this is due to insufficient load bearing wheels. If it had stayed on any longer the wheel would have come off and caused an accident. Frightening.

[@santclause1]

Great video. very informative.

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

Thanks, too many people overlook wheel ratings

[@Selkian]

Do the tyres need to be commercial grade to be legal on a T5?

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

they need to be sufficiently weight rated for the vehicle, which is usually commercial grade

[@Selkian]

@@TheCampervanBuilder - Thank you. It is clear now but a lot of confusing info out there on this point

[@deadmanalive8886]

Are alloy wheels better than steel wheels?

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

Steel are stronger, Alloys are lighter and look nicer

[@BradfordRiots]

Do you have any T4 steels that you want to sell?

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

no sorry

[@BradfordRiots]

@@TheCampervanBuilder thanks for letting me know 👍🏼

[@natashasmith7813]

And then you ruined it all by putting crappy Hifly tyres on! Doh!!!

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

They came with the used wheels

[@BillyBreaksBad]

Very helpful mate 👌🏼

[@TheCampervanBuilder]

glad it was useful