Multi-piece over One Piece
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Multi-piece over One Piece
Is there some advantage to multi-piece wheels in any respect over a single piece wheel? They seem to generally be more expensive, and a little heavier than 1 piece wheels, but a lot of the higher end rims (Volk, Blitz, BBS, OZ, Racinghart, etc...) seem to be of the 2 or 3 piece variety. So what is the advantage? Is it strength? Are the faces replaceable in case the spokes crack from fatigue? I'm curious to know....
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Rep Power: 416 ya, they are made so that instead of having to replace the entire rim, you can just replace whatever is bent or messed up. i think they look nicer too. not worth the money IMO tho.
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Rep Power: 364 They're for serious racing cars where the rims may take a lot of damage, so, if there is damage, you can replace individual pieces instead of the entire thing. However, you're definately going to pay for the convienance.
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Rep Power: 423 So in theory... you can buy 1 set of multi-piece rims, and if you get a new car, you can change the face to the new lug pattern and offset and transfer them. Then it doesn't sound like such a bad idea. This obviously only works with rims that all mount to the same place and the face changes the offset. If the face bolts to a different place on the rim to change the offset, then you're screwed.
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