Six for the price of two?

Neither do the other ones on your car, so that isnt a problem.

So they will stand out like dogs balls on you car when the other ones don?t.

A junk yard one is fine for an old car, with

Nope, because the other ones don?t look like new.

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 16:51:24 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to digest...

This is popular around here...

On Tue, 06 Apr 2021 21:10:24 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com posted for all of us to digest...

Just sending these along, a lot of scrap in PA.

Alloy wheels reduce both over-all weight and unsprung weight - as well as rotational mass - all good things for better ride and fuel economy. Also they don't fly off on bumps like chrome wheel discs on our deteriorating roads - and they DO look good.

Sport. Chrome rim with alloy centers - I could put the stock chrome wheel disks over them if I didn't want my car recognized.

Used to be alloy rims were high priced options - or expensive aftermarket accessories now I even have alloys for my "winter" wheels.

Alloys do tend to break rather than bend on severe impact. You can bend the steel rims back to being useful but not alloys.

Good luck "bending" a steel rim back into the correct shape after a severe impact. Maybe Arlen can tell us how he does that in his driveway. As to why alloy wheels have become dominant, I'd say a major reason is that they look so much better than cheap steel rims with hub caps and customers like them.

Uh, my alloy wheel was heated and put back to shape. Sure, some break but many can be repaired.

I've never cracked OR bent an alloy. I have spent a lot of time beating Peugeot rims back to something close to round (204 in Zambia cross country in the rainy season)

On Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:39:56 -0400, Clare Snyder posted for all of us to digest...

Haaaaa I like that "flying off" and they "shouldn't" suffer from hammer installation. Still chuckling, we got the roads...

That reminds me there used to be a couple of places, besides the scrap yards, that sold hubcaps. I think they lived near or installed potholes for collection purposes. The wheels would inevitably rust where the clips attached. Lovely.

On Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:47:45 -0400, Clare Snyder posted for all of us to digest...

Their stuff was the kats meow back in the day... Steering wheels, cherry bombs, chrome this and that. I think they even had fuzzy dice to hang from the mirror, which the cops would complain about being an obstruction.

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 07:55:08 -0400, Frank posted for all of us to digest...

Good luck getting a proper seal on the bead. Then use one of the tire sealers and the next guy comes along and man what a mess if it doesn't go kaboom first.

I guess if ones steel wheels they could steal them off police cars.