2009 Wheel & Tire Guide

摘要

Today's wheels and tires from the vehicle factories are designed to do the right job. They also include that government safety standard feature that becomes very boring or out of style. For most of us, slipping into a set of wire wheels with 5.20s or plus-size chrome, polished, or colored rims with matching low-profile tires is the definitive fashion statement for our rides. The number of wheel and tire choices available these days can also be overwhelming.rnFor the past few years the aftermarket wheel manufacturers have been trying to reinvent the wheel. Custom wheels have become the ultimate automotive accessory and are really on an entirely different level from the days of sporting humble moon-type hubcaps. Back in the day, your car came with hubcaps that attached to the stock rims, which weren't very attractive but still looked better than the stock wheel. If wheels were dressed up at all, they were fitted with dog dish-shaped hubcaps and chrome trim rings or maybe, if an owner had a true sense of style, crossbar or spinner wheel covers. Then in the late '60s came the aftermarket five-spoke mag wheels,rnand soon after that, the wire wheels broke out. But today, newly designed wheels come off those CNC machines every five minutes. The choices are endless.