heeter_33

I've seen CCW's with multiple cracks in the barrels. Likely far less prevalent on a real wheel like that, but no wheels are immune.

royce777

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What's wrong with real wheels on a cobalt?


That's like saying you wont buy your kid nice shoes cause he's ugly.

heeter_33

Just a personal choice. If you have the financial means then by all means go ahead. But for me personally, I'm not going to put $3000 (Canadian) wheels on an $8000 car when they don't really add any benefit other than style (compared to stock). If the specs were more favorable for future cars that I might own, I could maybe justify it.

I don't have any issues with Cobalts either, I love mine. I should have used a better word to describe, by good car I meant expensive. But the finances just don't make sense for me.

Edit: I did put 20" wheels I bought used on my piece of crap s10 in high school though so maybe I shouldn't talk haha.

Scythe_Snake

I feel that a common misconception is that a real/quality/non replica wheel has to be super expensive.

Enkei makes a very quality wheel that is very inexpensive.

The M52, the PF01s, etc etc all come in 5 x 110 and aren't crazy expensive.

OZ also makes the ultraleggeras and the allegerritas in 5 x 110.

I don't know, but to me, the wheel is quite literally the most important part of a car. If that fails, you damage just about everything from your trans, to your motor, to your suspension. Why save a few bucks here to even remotely have the chance of ruining your car?

And while no wheel is immune to failures, HOW they fail is the important part. If a wheel center sheers away from the spokes...that's far different than if only a barrel or a portion of a wheel fails and keeps your car in tact.

heeter_33

True. I don't know why but when the debate always starts I tend to focus on the real expensive 3 piece wheels when referring to "real." Too much time looking at stancy threads I suppose haha.

And I have never really seen very many examples of wheels failing that bad from everyday use. Track use or beating on the car is a whole different can of worms I would presume. But I was talking about me personally in that post, and I don't do anything really taxing other than the odd pull.

Scythe_Snake

Yeah I get you. While multi-piece wheels are really cool, nice 1 piece/cast wheels are also 'legit/non replica' and do not have to be huge money, as I listed in my examples.

I mean yes there are expensive 1 piece wheels out there (*cough cough* Volk TE37s, the wheels the ROta Grids and Varrstoen es2's knocked off [the owner of varrstoen even bragged that he copied their design]), and for good reason, there are a lot of affordable ones too. Real =/= expensive. :-)

Also looked for used wheels out there! Lots of times people upgrade or go a different route and sell their wheels. Buying used non reps >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> supporting rep companies imo