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This is my son.
We are going to ask my son Banker
what he thinks about multi-piece wheels.
Are they over hyped?
- Multi-piece wheels are over hyped, dad.
- Why son?
- Because they're intended for race car purposes
and people are putting them on slanty-wheeled Honda Civics.
- Perfect, that'll be just enough
to get everybody really upset.
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Awesome.
Multi-piece wheels are something that
have been in the game for quite a long time.
If you look back in the early 70s and even the 60s,
some of the Japanese companies were actually
one of the first ones to found multi-piece wheels.
Your companies like BBS, Weds,
and all other companies like that,
even SSR making multi-piece wheels
for different sort of vehicles.
But the original purpose of multi-piece wheels
is something that we've probably
talked about a million times,
and it's meant for function on the race track
and that was originally what it was bred for.
But we've started to come across
a lot of people asking whether multi-piece wheels
are actually worth it or if they're just over hyped.
So I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
Don't forget to subscribe,
and let's just jump right into it.
If and as and maybe and potentially and in your opinion
if you think multi-piece wheels are over hyped.
So if you didn't know, multi-piece wheels
was something that was founded in the early 70s,
and as a result you had lots of racing teams
and things like that using multi-piece wheels
to adjust the sizing of their wheels
on the track as well as off the track.
Now you have to remember was back in the day
on racing teams is that you had
different divisions of racing classes
that ultimately wheels could be passed down to.
So whether you were in a different type of class
racing for class B versus class A or class C,
a lot of times if you weren't as big of a racing team
you couldn't really afford all of the fancy new stuff.
And as a result a lot of their partner teams,
the ones that had all the money.
You ultimately had this thing
where people passed down these wheels.
But if you could only make it in one way,
a lot of times the wheel was wasted.
If you had different sort of regulations
or a different vehicle come into play
you couldn't adjust the wheels
that were forged magnesium at the time
into anything else but what that specific sizing was.
It wasn't until ultimately they decided
to start welding these pieces together
or three piece wheels together
so that you could take the face out,
adjust the back spacing or the the barrel or the lip
to essentially get a wider width wheel,
slap it back on to the car, and you'd be right as rain.
A lot of times this worked for
pretty much every class of racing in existence,
and over time it was just something that racing teams did.
Now not every racing team did it,
but it was something that was very iconic
in a lot of the high performance
driving racing events that were
pretty much taking over the world in the late 70s.
What ended up happening is over time progressed
the next decades came and went,
but there wasn't really a huge need
for multi-piece wheels in the current scene.
But just like everything that seems to be
going on in the current racing scene,
you have a lot of people taking what they see on the track
and putting it on to their car on the street.
You know that for wide bodies, overfenders,
different sort of parts for the back.
You have diffusers and splitters and huge wings,
and a lot of that stuff already originated from the track
because that was what you needed to do
to essentially have all the necessary
downforce and everything in between
to essentially make your car be, well, fast.
I mean that was kinda the whole gist of it.
And ultimately over time people started
putting it on their FRSes or 350Zs,
all of that sort of stuff,
and a lot of people started to get mad
because there was no function to it,
but then multi-piece wheels entered the game.
But unlike a lot of other stuff,
multi-piece wheels carry a massive price tag,
and a lot of people are starting to wonder
if they're over hyped because they're just wheels.
At the end of the day multi-piece wheels
do not offer a whole lot of function for the street.
They're oftentimes more expensive, heavier,
and at the same time a lot less practical
than a lot of other wheels.
You have Rotary Forged Wheels out there
that are lighter, better, and faster
at pretty much any sort of forged
multi-piece wheels in terms of function.
If you look at forged model block
that's coming out with RSR and other companies
that are offering fully forged model block wheels
for half the price of a lot of
full setup multi-piece wheels.
So why do people buy them?
People buy multi-piece wheels
for a lot of different purposes,
but if you were to boil it down into two I can tell you why.
Reason number one and probably the most genuine reason
that people buy multi-piece wheels
is simply because they need the fitment
that multi-piece wheels provide.
Multi-piece wheels are something
that are very iconic on bigger, wider vehicles.
Things like your Porsche's or your Ferrari's
or your Lamborghini's or your wide-body 370Zs.
Things that actually need a wider setup
that a lot of cast and rotary forged wheels
just can't accomplish at this time.
You see a lot of cast wheels that are offered
in an 8 or a 19 by 11 or a 19 by 11 and a half
and you are damn near close to 40 pounds of wheel.
You do not wanna have those on your car
and you especially don't wanna have them on a 911.
You'd probably get ridiculed, laughed off the track,
and then you go back home wondering
why you decided to buy 18 by 11 and a half JNCs.
You just don't, you just don't do that.
So what do you end up doing? You wanna get Rotary Forged?
Well a lot of Rotary Forged options
really aren't available in anything above an 11 wide,
and that has a lot to do with the fact
that the technology right now
simply can't make barrels that long
rotary forged without ruining integrity.
And then at the same time, the wider you get with your wheel
you end up losing load capacity for your vehicle.
So if you have a rotary forged wheel
you actually lose load integrity, load rating on that wheel
because the barrel is so thin.
That's where multi-piece wheels really comes into play.
Because it's forged T60601 Aluminum across the board
and you also have the additional hardware
that's pretty much tied into everything,
you have a much stronger wheel for wider setups.
Iconically, multi-piece wheels
are meant to have a unique sizing.
And at the same time you can get pretty much
anything on a multi-piece wheel customizable.
So whether you're looking for color or floating spoke
or having a deep dip, lip, or anything like that
or whether you wanna do both,
it's something that multi-piece wheels provide
that pretty much no cast, Rotary Forged,
or forged wheel offers, and that's the first reason.
The second reason is probably
way more common than the first,
but ultimately it's probably not as cool.
A lot of people get multi-piece wheels so that
they can say that they have multi-piece wheels.
It's the same thing as saying you have the iPhone X
just because you wanna have the iPhone X
and you want people to know you have the iPhone X
because apparently it has a better camera
than the Samsung S9+.
Even though I have more followers than Mario,
Mario still keeps talking trash
about how my iPhone is worse than his.
But I have 3000 followers and he has like 12.
Alex.fi, check it out, what up.
I have pictures of cats and stuff.
You have all of these things that are
very much more about the hype
than they are about the actual function
and you see this a lot in the car scene right now
and there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
But what used to be just about the function and stuff
has now evolved almost into this hype game.
You see it with clothes, like shoes
and shirts and things like that,
and now it's the same thing with wheels.
Wheels have a sense of hype to them and people like that.
People will buy the multi-piece wheels
or the rare multi-piece wheels
so that they can say that they have it,
and it really doesn't have any function at all.
It's just more about the form.
So a lot of people do still buy
these wide wheels for just looks,
but then they also do a wide setup
so that they can have a big barreled wheel
in the back of their G35 or something like that.
But at the end of the day it's
not really for function, it's for looks.
So whether you think multi-piece wheels
are over hyped is completely subjective
because it depends on what you're using the wheels for.
I can tell you right now that if you're looking at a 458,
your options are gonna be very limited
as to what sort of wheels you can buy
that aren't gonna cost you $12000
and don't have the title of HRE.
But at the same time, multi-piece wheels
are also a budget option for people that are out there
that only have HREs as an option for their wheels.
You take a look at a $12000 set of HREs
versus a $6000 set of Rotiforms,
you're actually saving quite a bit of money
and at the same time getting a lot more style
and a lot more I would say trend
with the current styling versus
going with something more conservative.
Now, you get a lot of benefits
by going with something more expensive
like your HRE or Brixton (mumbles),
but depends on what you want.
So if you guys think wheels like
multi-piece wheels are over hyped,
drop a comment below and let us know
if you think they're worth it or not worth it and why.
Of course don't forget to subscribe.
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries,
and if you're looking for normal wheels,
rotary forged, multi-piece, suspension,
Air Lift, or Accuware,
head out to fitmentindustries.com.
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries and we'll see you later.
Peace.
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