subject: Latest Recipes in the Kitchen of Car Wheels [print this page] Latest Recipes in the Kitchen of Car Wheels
Enduring the rubbing and brushing part whilst carrying the full burden of your laden chassis, the wheels are perhaps the most strained peers in the multi-assembled mobile family which your car is. Be it the clear turfs of the Bonneville or the rough terrains of Baja; be it the cruising traffic queue or an over-drivingly tempting highway, it is your wheel assembly that gives your torque the desired punctuation and expressiveness. In the modern times of vivid variations in engine horse-power, frame structures, turfs and over the edge aerodynamic applications it has become compulsory to upgrade and streamline your wheel selection accordingly. Nevertheless, from the aesthetic point of view also the wheels do have a big impact. In earlier times the wheels were made of steel and sometimes provided with nickel coats for better corrosion resistance. But, with time, various alloys showed to give better results. In such respect chrome wheels provide both the performance and the aesthetic aspects of an up-to-date standard car wheel. If you are still not satisfied then you might just need custom wheels or even tuner added wheels for better results. These will be discussed in details. Chrome Wheels: The trend of using wheels made of steel has become obsolete with the advent of alloy wheels which are nothing but wheels made of alloys constituting aluminium along with magnesium and/or other metals. Chrome wheels are a special category in this breed of alloy wheels. Theses variants are more expensive owing to their after-market application but they in turn provide better cosmetic appearance along with higher fuel economy and better performance due to reduction in net un-sprung mass. The wheels look so furnished that the hub-caps are no longer a necessity. The buying depends on a range of factors such as budget, performance requirements etc. Custom Wheels: The chrome wheels usually are a material oriented classification of car wheels. But in order for high end performance benefits some further modifications are called for. These demands are sorted out by using custom wheels. Some examples where custom wheels are required are Racing: Special low weight variants for better stability and speed. Drag Racing: Larger wheel width for better ground grip. Rally: High strength wheels which is an absolutely apparent quality of custom alloy wheels with proper engineering design. Normal Road-Driving: Low un-sprung weight for better fuel economy and higher aesthetic value. Showmanship: Special hip-hop style wheels with larger rim-diameter and attractive finish. Customers now sometimes prefer tuner wheels with lug nuts for security. The tuner wheels are now hot trends in the SUV realms. However these wheels have shown to show some fitment problems due to less compatibility than the production line wheels. Cases of rusting in alloy wheels are also occurring. But nevertheless, combined with the aesthetic superiority and performance boosting quality, these pitfalls seem to have little or no effect in the minds of the customers.
