Aftermarket wheels on Tow vehicles

gitane59 wrote:
I ruined an OEM polished 17x6.5 aluminium front wheel on my Ford F350 dually a couple month's ago and have been running the rusty steel spare and I am wanting to get it replaced.
It is next to impossible to find a used OEM wheel and new ones from Ford are around $800 US.
Aftermarket aluminium wheels in a matte black finish of the exact same size and spec's for this vehicle start at about $211 US a piece and go up from there depending on manufacturer.
Has anyone got any experience with or thoughts about using aftermarket wheels on a tow vehicle?

I went with aftermarket alloy wheel on my previous truck, biggest problem I had was finding a wheel that I liked, and had the same weight rating as the tire . In my case it was 3640# rating on the tire. The closest I found I liked was 3500 lb. rating on the wheel

This may have changed finding the correct weight rating, this was several years ago.

Another concern I had at the time is that about every aftermarket wheel I was looking at were lug centric as where OEM wheels are hub centric . I went with lug centric, and a wheel that had as said the 3500 lb. rating. Had no issues with the aftermarket wheels. And they looked a lot better then them old Superduty OEM wheels :)

IMO it would be a great time to get rid of those 17" wheels.