Custom Wheels

If taking mind into improving your car or truck with larger diameter wheels, this is the right place to be. When researching about your desired items you may acknowledge with offset, center bore and bolt pattern. We are talking wheel dimensions, various dimensions and how they are measured. The wheel has to have the right combination of dimensions to be the proper wheel for your car or truck. Diameter is the most common wheel dimension; when owner say they have 20” rims, they are talking about the wheel diameter. Diameter is the measure of distance between the bead seating areas at the opposite sides of the rim when being seen from the side, which does not include the wheel flanges. Today’s standard rims are 16” and 17” on most regular car’s, and 19” and 20” sizes on performance models. In the aftermarket the wheel sizes are up to 30” and beyond. It is easiest to keep in mind the same approximate tire diameter when you decide to go for a larger diameter wheel. Many systems on your vehicle such as the driveline gearing, speedometer, anti-lock brake system and stability control system were designed to function with a certain tire diameter.

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Changing this diameter can affect car performance and how these systems function in a very negative way. To keep the same approximate tire diameter, the sidewall of the tire must be shorter, while the wheel diameter is increased. This process is called “Plus Sizing,” with one positive propping up one size in wheel diameter, two positive heading up the next size, and so forth. Plus, Sizing works this way: A tire’s sidewall height is systematically the aspect ratio and it presents a percentage of the tire width. A 55-aspect ratio is when the sidewall height is 55% of the tire width. When increasing the wheel diameter, this reduces the aspect ratio so that the tire diameter stays exactly the same. Asides looking at very beautiful rim and a more attractive black tire, other advantages to larger diameter wheels are that your car may deal with better. Shorter sidewalls are stiffer for low profile tires and aren’t flexible as much. Larger wheels are often heavier, which makes their steering feel slightly sluggish, but multiple aftermarket wheels are often larger in diameter and still lighter than factory. Diameter wheels that are larger are typically wider, and allow wider tires to be mounted, so that there’s excess rubber on the roadway for accelerated traction. Width is measured as the distance between the bead seating areas of the wheel rim. As tires became wider this very dimension has increased even more. Wheel width is most importantly considered to be the proper size for installing the tires. Each tire manufacturer determines a variation of rim widths for every tire size, but within this variation the tire’s mounted width will convert. The precise mounted tire width can upgrade by nearly an inch is some situations when starting from the narrowest to the widest rim identified. A tire that is mounted on a narrower rim within this variation might fit on the vehicle; whereas we say the same kind of tire on a wider rim may not. Offset is measured as the distance between the wheel’s hub mounting surface and the wheel’s exact centerline. The hub-mounting surface is situated at the wheel centerline, located on the wheel with zero offsets. If the hub-mounting surface is placed in toward the wheel face side of the centerline, then this sets the offset as positive. This disposition is placed more to the wheel hub and brake components and is frequent on front wheel drive cars. When there is a negative offset, the hub mounting plain is closer to the backside of the wheel, so the wheel stretches outward even more. We call these “deep dish” wheels as they have a negative offset. Backspace is measured as the distance between the hub mounting surface and inner edge of the wheel rim. The offset and back space must be placed correctly on a replacement wheel to make sure the wheel and tire assembly fits on appropriately in the wheel well and does not encounter the fender, frame and other parts during its variation of motion. The wheel center bore is the machined hold in the wheel center. It is sized to fit over the flange that stretches from the wheel hub, which is ideal. On the hub this flange centers the wheel, while the lugs tighten to stop the wheel from running out, thus causing vibration. The hub flange size is not standard and depends varyingly on the vehicle manufacturer. Many wheel manufacturers in the aftermarket machine the center bore even larger in order to use a centering ring, as a way to make a wheel fit to many different cars as possible. To reduce the center bore for a certain car, use the appropriate size centering ring, that way it can center on the flange. This enables the same wheel to be used on many cars. Other wheels are not designed top center on the hub flange. We call these wheels non-hub centric or lug centric, as they are centered while the lug nuts are being tightened. Lug centric wheels should never be tightened under the vehicle’s weight on the wheel as it puts less risk of run out and vibration. Wheels are adjusted to the hub with lug nuts that secures in studs on the hub, or with bolts that thread into holes in the hub. We count a range from 4 to 8 styles/holes on recent new cars and light trucks. The count of studs or holes is one difference between vehicles, but also the distance measured between the adjacent studs or holes can be varied. This explains why a wheel with five holes will not fit perfectly to every car with five studs. Bolt pattern is determined in the number of studs or holes “times” the distance between two specific studs or holes. It is easy to measure the pattern on cars with 4, 6 or 8 studs or holes, simply measure between the centers of the studs that run opposite of each other. Wheel manufacturers have the bolt pattern instructions in their back pocket for every car they create wheels for, they just have to know the make, model and year that they can provide a wheel with just the correct pattern.