- What's going on, guys?
I'm Fuller from Custom Offsets,
Custom Offsets TV and on YouTube.
And I think when people think about lifted trucks
primarily what comes to mind
is the American Dream type vision
where you have this big lifted truck
on some really nice wheels,
some big aggressive mud tires,
you got the campfire going, you got some bacon cooking,
there's 4th of July fireworks going off,
and everything is super, super American.
But you might be surprised
that I think one of the best wheel manufacturers
actually designs their wheels across the pond,
but I don't mean in China,
I'm talking about AXE Compression Forged Wheels,
and they're a British company,
which is kind of interesting.
So most of the wheel manufacturers,
or the wheel designers I should say,
are based in the United States,
most of them towards California, some in Florida,
there's a couple big guys down in Florida too,
but for the most part in the United States.
Now it's no secret
that a lot of the manufacturing is done overseas
in China, Taiwan, over there, that direction,
but with AXE they're designed by a couple of British guys,
and if you go to SEMA,
if you've ever talked to them at SEMA
if you've had the privilege to go there,
you'll see that it's very clear
that they're not from America
and they are from England
because they all have quite thick accents.
But they do a really good job at designing wheels.
So AXE actually started as a car wheel brand
and then they kind of moved into the trucks.
They still offer car stuff, too,
but then AXE Compression Forged was launched
as a truck lineup, AXE Off-Road lineup.
So what makes them so different is in the car world
they were doing rotary forging or compression forging,
which was not anything super new for the cars,
but nobody was doing it in the truck world,
it was something that was completely new,
so AXE went out and they started doing
this compression forged manufacturing process for trucks.
So basically what that is
is it's your hybrid between a cast wheel and a forge wheel,
you kinda put the two together
and make the best of both worlds,
where you basically have a forged barrel but cast spokes
so it allows the wheels to actually be really light weight.
And you can still do
some pretty unique designs within the spokes
because that barrel of the wheel is plenty strong
to withstand the impacts
for anything that you're gonna put it through,
not necessarily in an off-road situation
because they typically are focusing on a show-style build.
All their designs are very clean, very elegant looking,
something that you'd expect to come from England.
So as far as styles go,
they've got a few different ones out there.
They're all numbered.
And what they do for a finish
is you can have the AX1.1,
that's a certain wheel with a certain finish,
then the AX1.2 is the same wheel
but with a different color finish.
So they've got a lot of really unique ones.
They are one of the first companies out there
that really push the red wheels
which we saw catch on big time and they just nailed it.
It's almost like a brushed wheel
that then has this red coating on it.
It looks super, super good.
They also offer a raw style
where it's just a brushed silver.
That looks really awesome,
'cause then it also has milling in it.
So you've got basically this depth going on
where you have the very intricate brushed spokes
with this cool silver bright looking milling going on too.
And then if you wanna go even cleaner style than that,
they also offer a white finish, again, with that milling.
So it just really, really pops
and it would take the right truck to pull it off
and it's kind of a pain to keep clean,
if I'm being 100% honest with you guys,
but white wheels look super good
with all the milling on there.
As far as the rim of the wheel goes,
they're pretty clean looking.
They got Compression Forged milled right in there,
it's a very thin font, which is hard to do
when you have such big machinery and such big tooling
to get those very intricate details on there.
But they've done a really good job of it.
They also offer a blue finish, we saw that at SEMA,
which I'm not sure if it's made its way out there or not,
they were kinda testing the waters on it,
but I think enough people liked it
that they're gonna move forward
with producing more of those wheels.
So that was really cool, too.
We get questions all the time.
People wanna know what kind
of different colored wheel options they can get,
and blue is a really common one that we see
that not a lot of wheel manufacturers offer,
but AXE is one of those companies that is doing that.
As far as pricing goes on these things,
if you're looking at something
in the 22 by 12 range or around there
it's right about $2000 for the set of four,
which is about $500 a wheel,
that's with free shipping and everything from our website.
So they're not the cheapest wheels out there,
but they're definitely not forged wheel pricing,
but you do get kind of a forged appearance
for actually significantly less than what you might pay
for a forged set of wheels,
but you're still getting
some of the strength benefits too.
Their wheels also have this twisting center cap.
They were one of the first companies
to put that out there,
and I believe they have a patent on it,
where they can still dual drill the wheels
so that helps keep that cost down
because they can sell it to a Ford guy or a Chevy guy,
it fits both trucks.
But they didn't want you
to have the gaudy holes in there or big center cap on it,
so they actually made the center cap that clips in
and then you can rotate it
to cover up the holes that are not for your truck,
so you can still bolt it on there,
still run spiked lug nuts,
it still looks really clean, and all that.
So on top of the big show wheels that they make,
AXE also did step their foot
a little bit into the off-road scene
and they got a new wheel,
it's called the AXE Off-Road Chaos.
There's not a ton of information out there
about this wheel yet.
It's brand new, it's still on pre-order,
17 by nine, negative 40 offset though,
so you get a ton of offset with a nine wide wheel
so you can still have some nice stance to it,
and it's finished in a really, really bright red
that looks super awesome.
So that's new, that's coming out.
We saw a whole bunch of other new stuff
at SEMA as well with these guys
and the style is just,
I don't think they make any wheel that looks bad.
All of their stuff is pretty sweet.
So I'm really excited to see
what these guys keep doing in the future.
I'm sure we'll see them again at SEMA this year,
but if you wanna check out their wheels,
learn more about them, or anything like that,
we've got pretty much all the information
that you need to know on our website,
and you can just check the link in the description
for all of that.
Otherwise, just head to customoffsets.com
and you'll be able to find them on there.
So that's all we got for you.
Peace.