- What's up guys, Junior here bringing you some
history behind the custom wheel
and what truly reinvented the wheel
in this episode featuring XD Series.
Let's get at it.
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So starting with a little history,
back in the 50's
dudes were taking their steel wheels,
cutting the centers out of them,
flipping them around, welding them back in
and getting a huge lip
and getting a deep dish look on their wheels
to kind of start customizing them way back then.
Pretty soon they were making chrome with big lips
and sold to Hot Rods everywhere.
Race cars and trucks alike,
started running these aluminum wheels
and they became the new cool thing to run.
XD Series, in the early days, had a whole division
focused on making steel wheels.
But even back then, the company was still looking
towards the future and what was gonna be next.
Chrome was super popular in the early 2000's.
(recorder version of Baby One More Time by Britney Spears)
But XD had other ideas, and of course, we're looking ahead.
They've been slowing growing in popularity
by making black wheel popular again.
Then a wheel broke through in 2004 that was completely
new and changed the idea of what truck guys
wanted to run, what was gonna be cool on their vehicles.
The original XD Series XD775
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Rockstar.
(Rockstar by Nickelback)
This chunky five spoke design was super popular in the
20 inch black truck wheel game that was emerging.
It doesn't have any crazy spoke designs,
it doesn't even have a lip to it,
but people frickin' loved it.
The classic five spoke star in the center cap
had everybody yelling yee-yee hell ya brother
(Yee-Yee by Homegrown)
and going to pick up a set.
They made them for dually's
and they even made them for cars
because they did so frickin' well in the truck world.
I watched a lot of Donut Media before this
and they do a lot of yelling.
Donut Media.
You're stupid.
- I love you.
- Everybody now hates the (rooster crow) star
♪ Hey now, you're an (rooster crow) star ♪
but only because it was so popular
it was on every truck in all of America
and it was even more overplayed than your
Moto Metal 962 on your truck right now.
(rooster crow)
But that wasn't all, eight years later,
Rockstar came back for seconds
and brought you the Rockstar 2
and it even had a lip.
And removable spokes so you could take off
and paint the color of your truck to run
or just take them off completely and run a fat five spoke
with a lip.
I even ran them on my old F150 just because
it was so easy to remove the spokes
and paint 'em to follow the color scheme
and look of my truck (rooster crow)
and then, just like Return of the Jedi,
they had the Rockstar 3 come out to complete the trilogy
and just like Return of the Jedi,
it never did as well as the original did.
- I find your lack of faith disturbing.
- But anywho, the Rockstar 3 was completely customizable,
even beyond what the Rockstar 2 had to offer.
The 3 offered multiple spoke styles
including a split spoke option
and then the ring around the rim and the mid spoke
were also removable as well.
You can basically take everything off this wheel
until there's nothing left.
So, okay, now let me back up just a little bit,
KMC Wheels was founded in 1982 and became an SUV
and luxury truck style wheel brand.
KMC then decided to offer their truck off-road brand
back in 2003 and that's when XD Series was actually born.
Literally born.
Whaa.
Two years later, XD slash KMC was bought out
by Wheel Pros.
Like American Racing, Asanti, Moto Metal,
and most recently, American Force.
XD has always stayed close to their roots
with off-road racing and their motorsports family.
Continuously pushing out styles and designs
with top quality in mind for their Forged and B-LOC wheels
for desert and short course racing.
XD is also super familiar with the truck industry
and is aware and cognizant of what is
is cognizant too big of a word for these hillbillies
that watch these videos?
Probably shouldn't have said that.
- Yeah, here you go you little godless (bleep).
No way in hell
good lord created something as aggravatin'
as you son of a (bleep).
(explosion and dog barking)
Take that you little piss (bleep).
(yelling)
- XD is also very familiar with the truck industry
and just knows what is hot and what's gonna look good.
I'm sure a lot of this is due to the fact that they're
under the same umbrella as Moto Metal
and so there's a lot of influence between the two
and they're awesome.
And we all know how well Moto Metal does
in the cast wheel game.
In 2015 XD came out with the XD 820 Grenade,
and it immediately became a super popular wheel
on the market.
Cody Banker's actually running them on his truck
right now.
Cody, how do you like your XD's?
There's definitely split spoke influence
from the car world and the fact that it looked
almost like a Forge thought, with the really flat profile
it had, had everybody hooked and ready to buy it
right off the bat and it's also in our top 18 picks
for 2018 so we've got a feeling it's gonna stay
pretty popular.
XD's newest thing for 2018 was introducing
their first 24 by 14 wheel, the XD 838 Mammoth.
This is a brand new wheel and perfect for you bros
to run a chrome and flex hard at the Walmart meets.
Since the chrome version definitely looks like
it could be a forged wheel,
I'm actually curious to see them in person,
so who knows, maybe I can still get us one
to put on this fancy wall behind us.
So what's expected to come from XD in the future?
They'll definitely maintain their presence in off road
events like The Mint Four Hundred,
which KMC Wheels is actually an official sponsor for.
My guess, is they're gonna start getting into larger sizes
more, maybe even a forge sign up as well,
seeing as their brother Moto Metals already there,
and a lot of the companies are really pushing
for a forge lineup to offer in addition to the cast wheels.
They also end up featuring the XD Misfit in the top ten
worst aftermarket wheels in history
along side the Teddy Bear Wheel, the Sunflower wheel
and the Status Grinder.
If you don't believe me you should really go check it out.
They claim trucks trying to fit the biggest, blackest,
chunkiest wheels possible are the
"let's make America Great Again" wheels.
Which is ironic because they're made in China.
So whether you're jumping ditches,
(bleep)ing (bleeps)chs, or doing both,
XD has a wheel for the style and functionality
that you want.
So drop a comment and let me know your thought
on Rockstar Wheels, we know you got 'em.
Also, give us a like and a share,
that'd be pretty sick, I'm trying to beat Sean
out for the best video, so let's get at it.
That's all I got, peace.
Good, is that gonna work?
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