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Intro 0:00
The Cheapest Wheels 0:56
Entry Level Wheels 2:48
Mid Range Wheels 4:03
Forged Wheels 5:41
Three Piece Wheels 6:41

Listen - the struggle is real af, inflation is up, gas is up, and wheels are expensive, and for most of us it’s hard to figure out whether those wheels you’re going to spend your hard earned money on are a good purchase, or if they’re made of recycled soda cans. Now, whether you have $600
or $6000 to spend on wheels, we’ve got you covered. There are options all the way from the bottom to the top, and we’ve got great choices along the way. This video isn’t necessarily going to tell you what wheels to buy, but we’ll touch on some along the way. This video is going to be your basic guide to each type of wheel, the pros and cons, and whether or not you should buy
them.

The cheapest wheels you can buy technically don’t fall into any of these categories as they’re like steel/winter wheels, but who really cares about those. Stepping up from steel wheels into your first aftermarket options, some solid quality brands are Motiv, Vision, Touren, and Kraze. All
of these brands have more expensive options, but you can get some of their most cost effective wheels for between 500 and 600 bucks a set in 18s

Entry Level wheels are going to be a step above the cheapest wheels in a whole bunch of ways, from brand identity, to product quality and testing, and finishes. Now, where a lot of people make a mistake is thinking that these entry level wheels should look and perform like the
highest end of wheels, and that’s just not the case . Some great entry level brands are going to be Aodhan, ESR’s cast wheels, Katana, Heritage Cast, Rotiform Cast, Konig, most Enkei wheels, and many many others on our website. Now, notice that I said ESR cast, Rotiform Cast,
and Heritage Cast - there’s a reason for this. A lot of the time brands that make higher end forged wheels make similar cast versions for a broader market. You can trust that when you’re buying one of these brands you’re getting the same engineering and r&d that’s put into their
forged wheels put into their cast, just mass produced in specific sizes to keep costs down.
Budget wise you can expect to spend right around a thousand bucks here with wheels ranging from around 800 to 1300 or thereabouts in 18 inch. These are going to be made similarly to the
cheapest wheels, but come in better sizes, colors, and with more brand recognition and technology behind them. These are usually where most enthusiasts who are doing other things to their cars start. You’re going to grab a set of Aodhans or Rotiforms, lower your car, do an
intake and exhaust, and be happy with it for a while, then move on to something else. These aren’t your be-all-end-all wheels(though they could be if you like them!) but are generally a great stepping stone to getting deeper into modifying your car.

Now, let’s move on to mid range, and flow formed wheels. Flow forming is a process wherein a center disk is cast using low pressure or gravity casting and then extruded out on a spinning
machine. This offers considerable weight reduction, improvement in grain structure, and improved structural rigidity. Now, naturally this comes with increased cost as well, and that’s why we’d consider these wheels to be mid range. You can expect to budget anywhere from around
1400 to 2200 dollars for a set of these in 18 inches, and some brands we’d look at here are Enkei’s racing series like the RPF1 and RS05RR, Forgestar, Gram Lights, WORK Emotion, Wedssport, MRR, and Rohana. Now, you might be saying - “how could you possibly mention gram lights, work emotion, and wedssport next to those american rep brands”

Big baller, shot caller, 20 inch blades on the impala 3 piece or forged monoblock johnnies. This is it, these are the big daddies of wheels. This is where you’re going to roll into the car meet and get hit with the “daaaaamn” from your boys. Now, not all of these wheels are created equal but here’s the tl;dr version - forged wheels are, you guessed it, forged. That
means taking the metal, applying a ton of heat and pressure, squishing the metal down to compress the grain structure, and heating/cooling the metal to improve hardness. The most common metal used in the wheel industry is 6061-T6 aluminum meaning it is “a precipitation hardening aluminum alloy that contains magnesium and silicon as its main alloying elements”
and is then T6 heat treated which means that the metal is heated to 1000* F for 12 hours, then plunged into a liquid for rapid cooling, then aged in furnace at 310*F.

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