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on five more mistakes you make when buying wheels
and tires because people make mistakes right.
We make mistakes, you make mistakes
I have made like a mistake or two in my life
And a lot of times when we make mistakes with
buying stuff, companies have a tendency
to have to deal with it.
Now I wish I was lying to tell you that
we love when people mistakes when they buy stuff
because it just really encourages us to spend
more time doing emails, more time answering
phone calls, and more time responding to comments
about really simple stuff.
But we don't. We really don't.
So we decided to make this video to teach you guys
five more mistakes that people make when buying
wheels and tires in hopes that we can help you
when you're going through the wonderful purchase
of picking up some wheels and tires.
Hopefully at fitmentindustries.com where you can wheels,
tires, suspension, airlift, accuair
all that sorta good stuff you know.
Its kinda our site, in case you didn't know.
Anyway, there's the sales plug don't forget to
subscribe, and let's get into thing number one.
Now this is probably the fastest and easiest
mistake that most people almost always overlook
and that's that they don't get after market
lug nuts or bolts.
I have made that mistake when I
bought my first set of wheels.
I know everybody in the history of mankind
has made a mistake with lug nuts or bolts if
they've owned probably more than five
set of wheels.
Not all the time are your stock lugnuts
going to fit on your car.
And if you use lugbolts they're especially not
going to be able to fit unless they're long enough
and a lot of time your OEM lug bolts aren't
long enough to handle different sized wheels.
So, you have to remember that when you're going
to buy wheels and tires you're more than likely
going to have to pick up a set of after market lugnuts.
Now that can be conicle seated, that can be different
style, it can be thin walled, your bolts could have
longer length especially if you're going into
adding spacers with your wheels and tires so
make sure that you understand that you're
gonna have to do that.
Now if you're looking to get some spike lug nuts
or maybe you're looking to get some kicks we actually
have them on the site.
Second sales plug you probably saw that one coming that
wasn't really that passive to be honest.
But, you can actually pick up a lot of different
lug nuts and spike lug nuts and things like that
that are gonna help you so that you don't have to
worry about that because I know a lot of people,
they got a little bit upset or have been mad before
that end up going on to put on their wheels,
they try to put the lugnuts on and they don't fit.
And then they go to O'Reillys and they buy like
the 40 dollar ones that are like 16 dollars and
you wonder whey they're poop and they end up
rusting out and then you have to get them unseized
from your mounting surface, its just a complete mess.
So make sure you buy them right away and save
yourself the trouble.
The second mistake that people make when buying
wheels and tires has to do with sizes and finishes.
And most importantly sizes and finishes.
Its actually two its a trick question
I thought I was gonna say just finishes because
this is kinda just me going off but its really both.
Heres why.
Finishes, there's a million different kinds you have
like bronze, you have root beer, you have toffee
you have what looks like four hours
after taco Tuesday, you have rose gold,
you have petal gold, you have chromium black,
you have satin black, matte black, gloss black,
satin glossy black, you have every different
conceivable way of saying black with some
sorta adjective or noun before it because
that's just what wheel companies do.
But you have to know your finishes.
Most importantly your satin to your semi-gloss
to your fully-gloss, obviously your glosses
are gonna be shining, you have matte that's gonna
be extremely flat, it's gonna have no shine atall.
You have this little mix between the two that's
more of a satin it's kinda like a glossy flat.
You're also gonna have polished versus chrome
where your polish is actually just the raw aluminum
that's been polished up to give it that nice clean sign
its actually pretty common in truck forged wheels.
And then you have chrome which is essentially dipped
in the material itself, which can be kinda not
always the best material because, especially if
you live up North, it dosent have the best effects
in terms of salt and water and things like that.
That's why a lot of times we recommend
that you ceramic coat your wheels if you're
getting that style of finish.
But there's going to be different style wheels
and unfortunately when wheel manufacturers
put those pictures on websites and they give us
those pictures, they're not always a super
accurate representation of what
the color actually is in real life.
It's kinda like when you go on Facebook and you see a
profile picture versus a tagged photo and you're like
what the (bleeped) is that?
That's pretty much what it's like sometimes so
don't be fooled and if you're looking to know what a
wheel is actually going to look like in terms of color,
you can actually just use our gallery
fitmentindustries.com/gallery and you can see what
color that's gonna look like in real life instead of a
fancy one with a white background that makes all
the bronzes look like all the other bronzes.
And widths are the same way, you have to remember
that when you're playing with width and when you're
playing with offset, that's actually going to affect
the design of the wheel.
So if you're looking at a Rohana RF2 for instance
with the plus 42 offset, its not gonna look the same
on an eight and a half wide as it would an eleven wide.
Because what's gonna happen is because of the barrel
gets stretched and because of the mounting surface and
the offset, its actually gonna pull spokes back or
push spokes up.
And you can actually end up getting a convex wheel
versus a concave wheel that you thought you were getting
because of stock images only showing one style of wheel.
So don't be fooled too much and remember that
that one stock photo is not gonna be an accurate
depiction of color and style.
Number three is more of a warning than a don't but
a lot of times what ends up happening is people buy
things in this order, I was told to do palms up
it helps explain the karate chop.
Wheels, tires, suspension.
And then what happens is that they get these wheels
they get these tires, they're super happy, they fit okay
and they're like now I wanna slam it on the ground,
they slam it on the ground because they got suspension
and all of a sudden their wheels don't fit, or their
tires don't fit, or their tires rub, or they have to get
camber plates, and they have to get toe adjustment
and they have to get lower control arms and
things like that because they just didn't fit
the first time around.
If you're going to for sure get into suspension with
your wheels and tires, we would almost recommend to buy
all three at the same time or making sure that you
know that your wheels and tires are going to fit with
whatever suspension you plan on buying.
We've seen this mistake happen before, people buy
a meaty set-up, they buy a wide set-up, and then
they go put it on air and they rub all the way down
all the way up, driving, turning, pretty much everything
short of just keeping the car still.
So what ends up happening is people end up getting really
upset or they don't like it and they try to blame
the suspension or they blame the wheels and tires
and really what it comes down to is suspension is going
to be working independently from your wheels and tires.
So to assume that suspension components are completely
independent in terms of your purchase from your
wheels and tires is not something
that you wanna be thinking.
You always wanna be thinking how's it all
gonna flow together and a lot of times wheels, tires,
and suspension do go together like
peanut butter and jelly.
Like crown royal vanilla and coke.
Like receding hairlines and eh-okay anyway.
The fourth mistake we see a lot of people make when
they're buying their wheels and tires
is they go with the meaty set-up,
they figure out their suspension,
they're ready to roll and then they're angry.
And you wanna know why they're angry?
You're like "Alex why are they angry?".
They're angry because they didn't know that they
were gonna have to roll or pull or modify
their fender liners yet they're running around
with an 18 by 10 and a half set-up,
square set-up on a narrow body car.
When you guys are going more aggressive with buying
wheels and tires and suspension, or just
wheels and tires in general and, I'm sorry,
guys and gals, you're going to end up getting to this
point where its like how aggressive can I get?
Now if you're a conservative folk and you're just
looking for guaranteed fitment, that's not a problem
your 8 and a halves that's why they exist.
They're like the grandma that you always go
home to every once in a while, you get the warm
cookies, you get the warm coffee, you're happy,
you're ready to roll, you leave a happy full man.
Now if you're feeling a little bit aggressive
like you're gonna go down to downtown Chicago
at like 9:30 on a Friday night without, you know,
a bullet proof vest or like safety
that is when you start getting into the more aggressive
stuff and you have to remember that the more aggressive
you get with wheels and tires, the higher chance
its gonna become that you're gonna have to modify
your fenders.
Don't be surprised if you have to, rolling fenders
have become extremely common to make things fit
and in our world rolling fenders is almost mandatory
if you wanna fit anything even somewhat aggressive
with a somewhat aggressive tire.
A lot of times we're gonna recommend that even if you
go with anything slightly more aggressive than
your stock sizing, were gonna recommend that you
roll your fenders.
So, get used to it, warm them bad boys up,
pull em out, and try not to pull of any paint
in the meantime.
And the final tip that we have is that
when you're going to mount your wheels and tires
on torque spec for the love of god
and be sure to have the proper tools
so here's the biggest thing that happens
especially with people that own Euro cars
is that they put them on lip, they take the wheels off
they go to out the new wheels on and they smash
the wheel into the wheel well, they're slamming it
in to the calibre, they're slamming it into the
mounting surface because they didn't get a
little lug bolt extender that just kinda
mounts the whole thing onto it and its super easy
to put the rest on.
Be sure that you have the right mounting tools.
We would recommend that if you've got a Euro car
to get one of those lug bolt extenders.
I'm sure there is an official name for them,
we don't even sell them but they're super nice.
I have them, I love them.
We have guys here that absolutely run them all the time,
just helps you get the wheels mounted but what you're
also gonna have to remember is that over time
you're gonna wanna make sure you're cleaning that
area correctly so that nothing seizes or heats up
or kinda melts into each other.
There are some Euro cars that have a tendency to
do that and we've seen people on the internet
that will take a hammer to their OZ's because
they're literally seized on to the mounting pad.
So be sure that you have that ready to go and
make sure you also have the knowledge when you're
mounting these bad boys up.
These wheels have to be torqued to spec like
that's the one thing where its like one-dugga,
two-dugga, three-dugga, like don't do that.
That's the one thing we'd recommend you don't dugga.
Unless you know the dugga amount, if you don't know
the dugga amount you should go on Google
so that you can figure out what
the appropriate dugga is.
If you're just dugga-ing it until you don't
know it anymore, you're pretty much gonna have
a terrible time when it comes down to
taking off your wheels and I've made that
mistake myself personally.
Don't be that guy.
Every single time I have to remind myself
what the foot pounds of torque is for my wheels
and you will wanna make sure that you know that too
before you end up putting those wheels
on your car because if you dugga before
you have the answer to your dugga,
you're gonna have a dugging bad time.
That was a terrible pun.
That was actually really atrocious
but those are our five mistakes for buying
wheels and tires, let us know what you think
about it in the comment section below.
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I'm Alex from Fitment Industries, we will see you later.
Peace.