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- Hey, what's going on guys.
Welcome to a new episode of Wheel Talk.
Andrew here with Fitment Industries Television.
So, we're going to check out a 3SDM wheel today.
Now we're looking at the 0.05
so this is a cast monoblock wheel from 3SDM.
We just got five samples in from these guys,
so you're going to see some continued 3SDM wheel talk
videos moving forward. So we're starting off with this guy,
and right away our sample wheel is an 18 by 9.5
and it's pretty rad if you look
right on the front of the wheel here,
you're gonna see it says 18 by 9.5 monoblock,
just stamped right on there.
So, really vintage-looking style
and of course to segue into that,
everybody knows this iconic style, excuse me,
the five spoke. It looks like a Ferrari F40.
So, a really killer-looking design
but the thing that makes this a little bit different is
the concave on this guy, so they basically took that
iconic five star pattern and just smashed that thing in.
So, really good-looking concave on this.
So, you're going to see offsets in the 20s, 30s and 40s
and depending on the width of the wheel
of course that's going to vary.
Now the sizes this ones going to come in,
you're going to see 16, 18 and 19 inch
and then as far as width,
you're going to see all the way
from 8 all the way up to 9.5 inch, so 8, 8.5, 9, 9.5.
Now depending on the diameter of the wheel, of course,
a little bit bigger the wheel,
a little bit bigger the width they do,
but a lot of really popular size
combinations to choose from.
So both patterns for the 0.05 will include four and five
lug applications, which is pretty cool
because a lot of Euro wheels typically
are just in the five lug.
This one is 4 by 100 and 4 by 108.
Then they also do 5 by 100, 5 by 108, 5 by 112, 5 by 114.3
and 5 by 120 so tons of different options in this one.
So, if you really like this wheel,
it's going to fit on just about anything.
So, what are the finishes this one comes in?
Of course, the silver cut is kind of
an iconic finish that 3SDM does.
All of their wheels have that
really cool nice polish feel to it.
So that is the silver cut, that's what we're looking at.
Now, the other two they do a gloss white
and then a satin black.
So, all three of them look really cool.
I still think the best one and best-looking is
probably just the silver cut.
They do such a good job with that finish.
Everything's micro-finished. So, typically,
where there'd be a lot of those little swirls around it,
everything is just buffed down extremely smooth
and you can literally just barely even see those on there.
So make sure we get you some nice close ups of the
silver cut here to check out.
Now, what does this wheel look good on?
Of course, 3SDM is a UK-based company.
We just picked up the line-up about a year ago
and they really target, of course, a lot of Audis,
Volkswagens, Mini Coopers, things like that.
So, this would be a rad little wheel on a Mini Cooper
that's just slammed out.
Golf GTI, Golf R, something like that.
So, that's kind of what they're targeting with this wheel.
Now, the thing I definitely want to mention is the polishing
on the face of this wheel.
It's absolutely beautiful.
It's a two-tone wheel, so you're going to see silver
with a machine face and it's polished,
so they do a super polishing,
it's like a seven step process.
And if we'll try get a close up here for you,
you can see in between the stars,
it's all polished and machined
and then the big sections of the star,
all these little pieces here are like a metallic silver,
and then it's a metallic silver on the inside of the lip.
So, with that silver and then the actual machine portion,
you're going to see just kind of a two-tone thing going on
where it kind of breaks up the pattern
and when it's spinning, it looks really cool.
Nice 3SDM center cap in the middle here.
You're going to see that polished
all the way around the center where it kind of dips down
like little bowl kind of style around the lug nut holes here
so, it's very vintage-inspired
but it really has that contemporary kind of flare to it,
where they just kind of beefed it up.
And a lot of the 3SDM wheels have
a lot of really cool concave,
so the star pattern just smashed in looks really cool.
And even if you check out the back of the wheel here,
we'll get you some shots of this,
you're going to see 0.05 stamped into the back.
Everything looks nice and clean,
3SDM logo, you can see the offset, the size,
everything right on there.
And then you're going to see the lines on top of the barrel,
just like how the Cosmis has.
So that's going to offer increased strength and rigidity,
reliability within the actual barrel of the wheel itself.
Now, cool thing about 3SDM, their price point is a moderate
price point, so you can cruise out to the site,
you can scoop these up for a very reasonable price.
I want to say, you're probably somewhere
maybe around a grand, or little over a grand
for a set of these guys.
Of course, the smaller sizes like the 16s
will be a little bit less
but it's a very nice well-built wheel for the price
and I would definitely recommend it
if you're a Euro guy.
If you're not familiar with 3SDM, I've seen a billion
of these things at car shows and stuff
and they always stand out.
They just have a really cool presence to them
with these really thick, chunky, blocky styles.
So, that is going to be the 3SDM 0.05.
Let us know what you guys think of this one.
Drop us a comment below
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Catch you guys next week. Peace.
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