tire rim weight rating
Hi , Just wondering how do you go about determining the weight rating of rims? I have 18" steel rims Thanks Lou
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Coming from construction bussines, I used to overload my vehicles on daily basis.
Have never heard about steel rim failure, regardless overload.
When I can't provide solid statistics, my recollection is that steel rims can take 50% overload at slow speeds just fine.
I read reports about rims failures, but that most of the time was aftermarket aluminum wheel.
Additional note, I paid extra when custom-building my dually Ford to have aluminum wheels.
What the site did not tell was that I had only 4 aluminum rims and 3 steel ones.
To add salt to the injury the alu wheels were polished only on 1 side with ugly stamping on other side .
Made rotating the wheels impossible.
Have never heard about steel rim failure, regardless overload.
When I can't provide solid statistics, my recollection is that steel rims can take 50% overload at slow speeds just fine.
I read reports about rims failures, but that most of the time was aftermarket aluminum wheel.
Additional note, I paid extra when custom-building my dually Ford to have aluminum wheels.
What the site did not tell was that I had only 4 aluminum rims and 3 steel ones.
To add salt to the injury the alu wheels were polished only on 1 side with ugly stamping on other side .
Made rotating the wheels impossible.
