Taking Rims Off For Winter
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Taking Rims Off For Winter
when did you guys take your rims off and put your stock hubs/rims back on? does anyone drive in the winter with their aftermarket rims? when do you put them back on usually? this is my first winter with my rims and i took them off this tuesday, our last day of good weather, it was 80 on tuesday and dropped to 40 on wednesday.
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Rep Power: 469 even though it doesn't get that cold in Houston i'm taking mine off Saturday so that next year in about End Of January Beginning of February i can bust out my newly powder coated rims!!!!!!!!!!
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Rep Power: 512 its not the temperature that worries me. it was just that it was extremly nice day with a record setting temperature on tuesday and i wanted to take advantage of it instead of having to spend that time working on it in the cold.
when do you guys usually put your rims back on?
when do you guys usually put your rims back on?
Last winter I left my 17s on, because I had Sumitomo HTR+ tires. They're all weather and were even better than the stock Firestones. I didn't care about my rims, because I bought them used anyways.
then some retard stabbed my tires last April. Instead on blowing $300 on a new set of tires, I busted out my 18s and bought new tires for those. I don't think they're all weather tires, so I'm taking them off later this month.
then some retard stabbed my tires last April. Instead on blowing $300 on a new set of tires, I busted out my 18s and bought new tires for those. I don't think they're all weather tires, so I'm taking them off later this month.
i would take them off before it snows for sure, but u can leave them on till it snows or ice, cuz when its nice and cool out, thats when i like it the best. when u put the rims on, it should be in like march or so depending on where u live. when it stops snowing pull em out
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about when do you put them back on?
about when do you put them back on?
when i dont see anymore snow.
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definatly take the rims off. I took mine off the first week of October because... I have no freakin clue why. I guess i got nervous about the weather gettign too cold down here. But 2 weeks after I took everythign off it staretd to get warm again so I feel like an idiot 
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Rep Power: 513 i'm gonna take mine off over thanksgiving weekend...i'll probably put them back on at the end of march...as soon as it's done snowing.
i wish i still lived in the south. I miss my wheels in the winter
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i wish i still lived in the south. I miss my wheels in the winter
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Rep Power: 0 Im gonna take off my wheels as soon as I get my stock ones back from a friend who borrowed tem. Im only putting them on because of the cold my suspension is really stiff and my 17's make a nice thud when i hit a pothole or anything else for that matter. Plus my tires are shot and tires for 15's are much cheaper.
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Rep Power: 0 I take off the good wheels and tires and put on honda 15 spokes w/blizzaks. Painted wheels hold up to the corrosion pretty well and 205/60-15s are plenty for the snow. You gota love a day when you can blow off any vette or 5.0 in town!!! I do coat the back side of the wheel where it contacts the hub with a light coat of silicone di-electric grease, you get corroision there even in warm weather due to the dissimilar metal contact.
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Rep Power: 368 I bought a set of 16" ACE Rages for winter....I just finished painting them gunmetal, and my buddy is applying the clear coat as we speak....now to find some 16" winter tires...this is not gonna be cheap....goooo....
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