Upgrading wheels, Forged versus cast wheels
I am taking off my 16 inch aluminum wheels with Goodyear 614 G rated tires. Replacement wheels will be 17.5 aluminum and tires will be Sailun Geostars 215/75 R17.5 LR H. There are two ways to manufact...
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Worked for a wheel manufacture a few years back. Go with forged. We did both and the cast is porous so you can have leaks. We didn't put any coating on our cast wheels, maybe some do, but not ours. Forged are stronger. Our sister plant in Europe did the Chevy HD wheels, and they were hammer forged.
