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- What's up guys?
Junior here with Customs Offsets TV on the YouTube
And I'm here to tell you what you didn't know
about after market wheels.
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So now the first thing that people have questions on
about after market wheels is,
what's the difference between all the kinds?
There are forged wheels and there are cast wheels
and some of them look a lot alike.
Well, forged wheels are made out of true aluminum,
there's a lot of pressure behind them.
They're higher structural integrity.
A lot of them are polished
where as your cast wheels are just a mixture of alloys
poured into a mold and then debird and there's your wheel.
So there's a lot that goes in to making a forged wheel,
let me kind of explain why they're so expensive.
So these forged wheels are made out of a T61 aluminum,
there's a whole crazy process involved in making these
which warrants how expensive they are.
If you check out the link below,
we explain exactly what it takes to make forged wheels
and why they're so much different
than a cast wheel out there.
So despite what the graham says,
forge wheels aren't the most popular out there.
94% of wheels that Custom Offsets offers are cast.
And all of them are made in China.
It's just something you have to accept
for the price you pay.
So a lot of people get wheels that look directional
and are tipped a certain way
and they think they got misshipped the wrong thing
where some were turned one way
and some should be turned the other way
so you have two sets of wheels,
one for each side of your truck.
It's a directional wheel
but they're not true directional.
Now there are only a few companies out there in
the cast wheel world that actually make
a true directional wheel
where you get two lefts and two rights.
The majority of them though are gonna be your forged wheels,
your more expensive ones, that come in a true directional
where you have both sides going the same direction
so one side is digging and the other is scooping.
So another thing that you might not know
in buying aftermarket wheels
is that a lot of them come duel drilled.
And what that means is that there's two bolt patterns in
the back of the wheel meant to fit two different vehicles.
I actually ran into this issue
when I ordered my first set of aftermarket wheels
because I lifted the wheel and tire up
and tried to put it on the truck
and it just wasn't going on.
Come to find out there's obviously the second bolt pattern
there, you gotta rotate it a little bit,
put it on and it'll go on just fine.
Now there's a couple companies out there
in the cast wheel game that have exposed lugs
but for the most part it's normal for cast wheels
to have dual drilled and then have a center cover cap
so you don't see the lugs.
All forged wheels are gonna be exposed lug
with a center cap to show that it's single drilled
so you can run spiked lug nuts and not have any issues.
So when you're ordering after market wheels,
a lot of time you have to look at the sizing.
Now your after market wheel is gonna be a different size
typically than your stock wheel unless you're ordering
something the same exact size off
of said dimensions, et cetera.
If you aren't sure on what sizes to run on your truck
or what look you're trying to go for,
you can check out customoffests.com/gallery
and see everyone else's photos.
See exactly what their specs are and what they're running
and find a similar set up and then run something like that
knowing the sizes and what you wanna run on your truck.
So the second part is understanding wheel sizes.
Now this is a 22 by 14 negative 70 negative 76 offset.
Let me explain what that means.
Now obviously the first number, the 22,
is the diameter of the wheel.
You measure diameter from the inside of the lip
to the inside of the lip.
As you can see, that is 22 inches.
Now the 14 is the second part of that.
A lot of people call then 14 wides
because that's how wide the wheel is
and that's really what people care about
'cause that's how big it is,
how far it sticks out from the truck.
So a 22 by 14 is 22 here and then it's 14 here.
You go from inner bead to inner bead to measure
the width of the wheel and you get your 14 wide.
Now the third part of that is
the negative 70 to negative 76 offset that I mentioned.
Now you might be like, Junior,
why are you saying a bunch of different sizes and ranges?
Why aren't you being very specific with it?
Because a lot of times companies will do a variation
of a negative 70, a negative 73,
a negative 76, something like that
and it's literally the millimeter difference between them.
So you're looking at a negative 70 versus a negative 76
is a six millimeter difference as far as
how much the wheel is gonna stick out on the truck.
You're not gonna notice six millimeters
so it's not that important.
What you should know is a 10 wide is gonna be around
a negative 24 offset, a 12 wide is gonna be around
a negative 44 offset and a 14 wide
is gonna be around a negative 76 offset.
If you're confused about all of that
and you don't understand what that means,
it's basically looking at your truck tire sticking out
two inches versus four inches versus six inches.
And you can also use the gallery just to see what
that wheel and tire set up with the offset is,
what it looks like on the truck.
But keep in mind that some of them
are running fender flares.
So the wheel might not look like it's sticking out as much
due to the fact that they're running a two inch flare
to cover up some of that wheel so it doesn't
look like it's sticking out so much.
So I hope that taught you guys something
on what you didn't know about after market wheels.
If you have any other questions or things
you wanna see in this video,
drop them in the comments below,
we'll get them answered or made into a video.
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on the YouTubes, peace.
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