I never have liked aluminum wheels, and now I have another reason to dislike them. They just don't seem durable enough to withstand offroading.

 

All rims that are not steel have to be re-torqed after 25 to 50 miles after you first put them on, that means torqe 'em again after 25-50 miles.

 

Happened to me with the stock honeycomb wheels. I figured out that the lug nuts tend to seize on the alloy when you use an impact wrench to tighten them and then they loosen up, i've beaten the crap out of my tire man and from that time always tightened the nuts by hand with a little grease on the threads and cones.

 

Something my dad has always told me about wheels is tighten the things as hard as you can, then after you've driven a day or two tighten them again. Never had problems, have always used aluminum rims.

 

OEM Canyon wheels using OEM tapered lugnuts.

Guess i'll have to keep an eye on them and recheck a few times after installing a wheel.

 

Me too. I wonder if a little dab of locktite makes sense.

 

Locktite works great, but it's rather expensive. I wouldn't bother with it. I used it when I ran wheel spacers on my old Jeep for good measure. I'd just check/re torque your lugnuts every so often.

 

I just emailed american racing about this, ill post what i get back

 

Please do, interested what they have to say.

 

i think the wheels i might be buying are aluminum
should i go buy some aluminum lugs??

 

will do, long as they email me back

not to sure, hopefully AR will email me back soon enough with a good answer to help you decide.

 

Really? Before you chicken out, check out the rigs that do hard core rock crawling & competition wheeling & see what types of wheels they use.

These are NOT steel wheels.
http://www.arbusa.com/uploads/Images...ckCrawling.jpg


Read these specs for a professionally built buggy. Most of them don't use steel wheels. I'm far from their league, but I just parked my Sims for AR Series 62 simply for the weight reduction - which is tremendous.

And just to add a little flavor to the discussion, I lost 4 lug nuts off my Cragar STEEL wheels in a rock garden at Rausch creek once. But in all reality this happens more frequently with aluminum/alloy. I'd say now that you know what you're dealing with, just do your due diligence, check them periodically & you should be fine.

Depending on what's in the text of EMAXX's email to AR, I can't see the point. The problem is not with AR wheels, it's with Aluminum wheels in general, and the reason is stated in the first page.

 

nah, the email wasnt about AR wheels specifically at all. It was about aluminum wheels in general. I just picked them to email because i see a lot of people running them and figured they must be doing something right and have knowledge on wheels if they are well known.

 

Wasn't trying to start an arguement, just stating my preference for steel wheels, and why. Think I'll stick with steel. They are cheaper, and more durable, no matter how many pros use alloy, I won't.

 

Oh good. I was hoping it was something with good sense (as you have done) rather than something silly. Interested in hearing what they have to say. You should know too, that many aluminum wheels are sold with "recommended" lug nuts.

blackXJ - not intended to be an argument at all. Just adding a different view point. People will panic ...