do rims freeze?

[bcleachd]

some people Like me take their aftermarket rims off during winter because people say they freeze.

IS THIS TRUE?

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[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Wtf are you smoking, man? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

Never heard of such a thing, personally.

I'll happily take it back, though, if someone proves me to be the one who's lost their mind...

 

[zthumper 10+ year member]

They take them off to keep the salt off of em //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[bcleachd]

what does salt do to them?

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

It can eat into the finish //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

I didn't think of avoiding the road salt....it so rarely gets that cold here they don't salt the roads as a matter of course where I live.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

corrodes the anodizing, and pits them

plus the actual salt hitting them can chip them up

winter's a bad time for wheels, period

 

[supa_c 5,000+ posts]

unless you live where its 100deg below 0 then i wouldnt worry

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

i think above and beyond the actual wear and tear on the wheels during winter, most people's view on it is that it's hard to keep a car clean during winter anyways, so you may as well keep the nice wheels put away until you can keep them clean and looking nice in the summer.

plus, it's pretty convenient to keep winter tires on your steel stockers, and put sport tires on your nice aluminums, so you don't have to have them remounted.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

we take em off and use "winter wheels" so we dont jack up the good ones, when the roads get crappy.

 

[thadman 10+ year member]

freezing refers to water (liquid) converting into ice (solid). All it is is liquid to solid conversion...

your rims arent liquid are they?

 

[bcleachd]

the snow melts and that creates LIQUID so..............//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[mtdewelf 10+ year member]

i think above and beyond the actual wear and tear on the wheels during winter, most people's view on it is that it's hard to keep a car clean during winter anyways, so you may as well keep the nice wheels put away until you can keep them clean and looking nice in the summer.
plus, it's pretty convenient to keep winter tires on your steel stockers, and put sport tires on your nice aluminums, so you don't have to have them remounted.

we take em off and use "winter wheels" so we dont jack up the good ones, when the roads get crappy.

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bleach, i say it again, if someone like you gets to be a rich man i will kill my family so they don't have to live in a world like retarded

 

[skmfkr 5,000+ posts]

glad i dont live up norf

 

[Suomi 10+ year member]

I'll agree with what's already been said. Salt eats into the finish of the wheels and makes them look nasty. I run snow tires on the stock wheels and high performance summer tires on the nice wheels. Freezing the wheels has nothing to do with it though.

 

[zachzchw 5,000+ posts]

When I saw the stupid title to this thread, I knew exactly who was making it.