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Alloy wheels come in all different sizes and styles. They completely overtook the steel wheel simply because of their weight and styling attributes. They tend to be made from a mixture of aluminium and magnesium as they are strong, light weight and also give very nice aesthetics with the right finish applied. The type of finishes you can have are chrome, powder coated or just simply metallic. In recent years there are many cases of companies and people refurbishing their alloy wheels and having them sprayed different colours to the standard silver that most alloys are.

Alloy wheels are on all types of vehicles ranging from motorcycles to lorries and because of this it is a multimillion pound business sector. They are very expensive and yet people are willing to pay because they transform the look of a vehicle. There are many different manufacturers of alloy wheels and each have their own styles. A few well known aftermarket manufacturers would be: O.Z, Team dynamics, BBS, Wolfrace, 5Zigen and many more. As well as aftermarket manufacturers you have all the car companies making their own alloy wheels to have as an optional extra on the specification of a vehicle.

The major factor of alloy wheels being light in comparison to steel wheels means that firstly you reduce the mass weight of the vehicle and secondly it helps with the suspension. It means that the suspension can operate quicker and more efficiently because it doesn’t have as much weight to work with.