Wheels.

mainechick · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2008 2:57 pm

Ok I need everyones help on this. I just went and had the mud tires re-balanced and was told some bad news. All four wheels are wharped. I already know how it happened, got an alignment and rotation last fall and I have a feeling the genius' used an air gun to put the tires back on. :roll:

So anyway to my question. I am going to have to get new wheels, what does everyone prefer, steel or aluminium? I am running steel rock crawlers right now and I really love the ones I have, but am considering aluminium so I dont have to go through this again...

daggerdoggie · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2008 3:11 pm

Stock aluminum rims. They fit better than anything out there and I have beat the hell out of mine. Other than cosmetic damage, I've never had a failure.

On the plus side, you can usually get them cheap.

If they don't have enough cool factor, paint to your hearts content.

RIXterra · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2008 3:16 pm

I'm running 15X8 Cragar soft 8's with a 4.75" backspacing with no problems and paid around $36 per wheel..

Inurteeth2 · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 1:12 am

U.S Daytona Wheels, Black 15x8 with 4.75 backspacing. I like them.

RomeoEJ · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 9:16 am

daggerdoggie wrote:

Stock aluminum rims. They fit better than anything out there and I have beat the hell out of mine. Other than cosmetic damage, I've never had a failure.

On the plus side, you can usually get them cheap.

If they don't have enough cool factor, paint to your hearts content.

I agree with scott. I have my stock 16" aluminum rims with 33" mastercraft mud terrains on them and they work great and when they get a chunk taken out of them from a rock i just need to get them re-balanced (like 2 weeks ago)...

Though the one thing with the stock rims you dont get the really wide wheels that stick out the side of your truck but in doing this you do not get any rubbing so there is tradoffs in each...

Svendog · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 9:17 am

I'm running Soft 8's as well.
Cheap and easily replaced

dmpmfd · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 2:20 pm

You could also take a look at Rocky Road's custom backspacing wheels. Without going to confirm the rim BS, I believe it is 5.25 to 5.5 inches of backspacing.

Big E 515 · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 2:56 pm

I have the Nissan Frontier 15x7 Desert Runner wheels, me likey long time! :-)

I got them on Ebay.

mainechick · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 6:19 pm

Hmm... thanks for all your input... cragar... is that a steel wheel? And what distributor did you go through?

Inurteeth2 · **Posted:** Mon May 26, 2008 11:44 pm

Heres one

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetai ... toview=sku

RIXterra · **Posted:** Tue May 27, 2008 8:43 am

Tiffany I went thru Summit for my wheels..

rx7r8c3r · **Posted:** Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:58 pm

as i read this post I decided on getting these crager wheels. Now I just gotta figure out tire size... hmmm

mainechick · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:53 am

Yeah I am looking at to getting these sometime..... I like the D style wheel they have and is about 40 bucks through sumitt. Can't really beat that price. Now I just have to figure out what I am going to do with the wheels that I already have.

rx7r8c3r · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:22 pm

you can donate them to a poor bastard in NY with too many hobbies and not enough money

dmpmfd · **Posted:** Sat Jun 07, 2008 5:35 pm

rx7r8c3r wrote:

you can donate them to a poor bastard in NY with too many hobbies and not enough money

Not really narrowing it down for her with that statement. :lol:

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