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Wheel weights - steel is real?
I'm quite sure that this kind of a newbie thing is been discussed here before, but couldn't find a thread, so a link is fine if there's one.
I've been searching for wheel weights, which is not so easy as I tought. It seems like for street cars only size matters, weight is not important. Then found a list from Andys Autosport, which is maybe mainly for motorsports reasond, and they claim that for example Minis OEM steel rims weights only 6,6kg each! It's same or less than most of the alloy wheels of same size. Of course you can find a lot lighter forged aluminium racing wheels, but that is going to cost strawberries, as we say.
So is it just marketing hype to sell "light" and sporty alloy wheels with huge amount of aerodynamic drag? If those numbers are right, I'm definitely going to find some used Mini wheels to replace my current rims sooner or later, it is much easier to make up some nice pizzapans for those thou!
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