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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Typical wheel found on US cars trucks and SUVs through the 1990s. Now resides on my trailer.
Auto makers put vents on wheels because they look cool and make the wheel lighter, they don't really start to make any functional difference until you are on a race track. |
From a safety standpoint,wheel porosity/aspiration as a function of brake heat flux dissipation,has been an issue for a century.
Worse-case scenarios would be factored into design, in order to prevent brake fade,especially descending extended mountain grades while pulling at gross vehicle weight load.Engineers must anticipate motorists operating right at the edge of the envelope.Fatalities are bad for marketing.