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2. Alloy wheel - Wikipedia

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   Alloy wheels have long been included as standard equipment on higher-priced luxury or sports cars, with larger-sized or "exclusive" alloy wheels being options. The high cost of alloy wheels makes them attractive to thieves; to counter this, automakers and dealers often use locking lug nuts or bolts which require a special key to remove.

3. Rim (wheel) - Wikipedia

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   One engineering text says, "alloy wheels [are] often incorrectly called aluminum rims". [18] Some authors are careful to use rim literally for only the outer portion of a wheel, where the tire mounts, [19] just as the rim of a coffee cup or a meteor crater does not refer to the entire object.

4. Wheel sizing - Wikipedia

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   Wheels with Asanti 28 in (710 mm) rims on a police Hummer H2 car. The wheel size is the size designation of a wheel given by its diameter, width, and offset. The diameter of the wheel is the diameter of the cylindrical surface on which the tire bead rides. The width is the inside distance between the bead seat faces.

5. Magnesium wheels - Wikipedia

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   However, those magnesium wheels proved to be impractical because they were prone to corrosion and they were mostly used in racing sports. After 1960's magnesium wheels were gradually replaced by aluminium alloy wheels on the mass market, but not from the competition wheels market. Many manufacturers of magnesium wheels are still operating.

6. OZ Group - Wikipedia

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   OZ racing wheels on an Indy car. OZ S.p.A., also known as OZ Group is an Italian company founded in 1971 that produces car and motorcycle wheels, specifically alloy wheels. They are an OEM supplier to a number of manufacturers in addition to aftermarket sales and are a prominent wheel supplier in motorsport.

7. Wheel - Wikipedia

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   An aluminum alloy wheel. The rim is the "outer edge of a wheel, holding the tire". [47] It makes up the outer circular design of the wheel on which the inside edge of the tire is mounted on vehicles such as automobiles. For example, on a bicycle wheel the rim is a large hoop attached to the outer ends of the spokes of the wheel that holds the ...