What are the lamest factory wheels and lamest aftermarket wheels?

[Runcharger]

Cleaning: Oh yeah I hand polished the fins on these more times than I care to remember. Factory 440 HD W200 BTW.

 

[Coelacanth]

What made them worse was they were a rough-cast aluminum between the fins. You needed a strong chemical AND a couple toothbrushes to clean those SoB's.

 

[Detective D]

Well likely with millions of semi trailers on the road for many decades, how do you explain no significant reported alum wheel failures?

You mean, wheels designed to be on a heavy truck didn't fail at the application they were designed for? WOW
Pick up truck wheels are not designed for trailers.
This is not a difficult distinction to observe. Dispute it all you want.

 

[j-c-c-62]

Pick up truck wheels are not designed for trailers.

And you know this how?

Are they stamped additionally with that warning amongst all the others on the wheel like PSI, weight, size, etc?

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Pick up truck wheels are not designed for trailers

A quick web search says you can.

https://www.etrailer.com/question-451246.html

 

[Histoy]

I loved these factory wheels on our 2012 Challenger

 

[Detective D]

And you know this how?

Are they stamped additionally with that warning amongst all the others on the wheel like PSI, weight, size, etc?

Oh, so we need anti-lawsuit idiot labels to have common sense now?

You guys are the reason I NEVER follow trailers on the road.

 

[j-c-c-62]

Oh, so we need anti-lawsuit idiot labels to have common sense now?

You guys are the reason I NEVER follow trailers on the road.

You do know when wheels fail on trailers most of their braking is lost also, so also never allow a trailer to follow you, using common sense.

 

[Detective D]

You do know when wheels fail on trailers most of their braking is lost also, so also never allow a trailer to follow you, using common sense.

Correct. Put adequate space in between so if they have an issue they are "way back there".

 

[torredcuda]

You mean, wheels designed to be on a heavy truck didn't fail at the application they were designed for? WOW
Pick up truck wheels are not designed for trailers.
This is not a difficult distinction to observe. Dispute it all you want.

I agree. Aluminum mags, even factory truck wheels, do not belong on trailers. Especially tandems. They were never designed for the forces exerted from the trailer during a tight turn. Aluminum will crack. Usually, the studs are too short to properly torque down also.

I have not seen any evidence that wheels made for trailers are any different than others. If you are ONLY talking about those specific wheels on a trailer then OK but you also said in a separate sentence "Aluminum will crack" and I took that as meaning ANY aluminum wheel will crack and is therefore not suited for a trailer - my bad if that is not what you meant. Obviously any wheel that has incorrect, too short studs is not safe, that is a different issue and has nothing to do with the wheel material.

 

[6PKRTSE]

These aluminum wheels came on my open trailer purchased new in 1995 and have been on it since to this day. My enclosed has had these aluminum wheels on it since 2007. Never any issues with either trailer.

 

[chargervert]

When my brother in law totaled his 70 Challenger R/T 440 Sixpack car back in the 79,I remember we went to the junkyard to pickup the engine and half of the 727 transmission, the center of the Cragar S/S wheel was still on the brake rotor and the outer part of the wheel was stuffed inside the car.

 

[j-c-c-62]

When my brother in law totaled his 70 Challenger R/T 440 Sixpack car back in the 79,I remember we went to the junkyard to pickup the engine and half of the 727 transmission, the center of the Cragar S/S wheel was still on the brake rotor and the outer part of the wheel was stuffed inside the car.

Why NASCAR resisted Alum wheels for decades.

 

[torredcuda]

Cragar S/S wheels are chrome steel.

 

[chargervert]

The center of the Cragar S/S wheel is chrome plated cast aluminum. The outer hoop is chrome plated steel.

 

[torredcuda]

The center of the Cragar S/S wheel is chrome plated cast aluminum. The outer hoop is chrome plated steel.

How do I not know that or maybe I knew and forgot? I know they are heavy wheels which is probably why I thought all steel.