Talk:Alloy wheel
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[edit] RE: Article
Hello, I have started this article with some information I both know and that I have researched, and I have also uploaded two pictures of the wheels on the two cars at my household, which I knew would work perfectly. Can anybody add some more information? Thanks Harrison Bass - HB4026 00:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- I've found contradictory information between the two articles. Here it states that aftermarket wheels are often referred to as "mag" wheels while commonly mistaken with "magnesium" wheels. However, at the magnesium wheel article it states that "mag" wheels refer to "magnesium" wheels and is often mistaken with alloy wheels. Who's right, who's wrong? Ghotiness 20:17, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
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- OK, from my experience, the term "mag" wheels originated for the motorcycle market, when manufacturers wanted to move away from heavy chrome plated steel spoked wheels, to a lighter more durable wheel capable of utilising tubeless tyres (rather than tubed tyres with inner-tubes). These were made from magnesium alloys, hence the abbreviated "mag" terminology.
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- "Alloy" wheels initally originated from car motorsports (the type of wheel, but not the name, because motorsport specific wheels are generally magnesium alloy), which then percolated into the general road-going car market. These car wheels, due to the cost of magnesium, where primarily made from aluminim alloys (although some more expensive OEM wheels can include magnesium and aluminium in the alloy), hence the term "alloys". HTH Teutonic Tamer 09:33, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Alloy?
Calling aluminum (U.S. spelling) wheels "alloy wheels" is ignorant do to the fact that, in most cases, the only other type of wheel is a steel wheel. Steel is an alloy also, therefore steel wheels are alloy wheels.
- Not really. I think you are being a little pedantic. It is now very common terminology in both car and motorcycle worlds (and trucks too) to class a pressed steel wheel as a "steel" wheel, whereas an "alloy wheel" is used for any formed or cast wheel which is made from any kind of lightweight alloy, be that magnesium alloy or aluminium alloy (or any combination of lightweight metalic components). Rgds Teutonic Tamer 09:40, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge
Magnesium alloy wheel should be merged into this article. There are so many alloys that differentiating between them is pointless. 171.71.37.29 20:26, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
- I agree they should be merged. We could then make a clear distinction between magnesium alloy wheels and aluminium wheels, whilst still keeping them under the same generically used 'umbrella' term of 'alloy wheels'. Teutonic Tamer 09:45, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rim vs wheel
Why is this article called "alloy wheel"?
Rim + tire = wheel. (i.e. Only the rim is alloy, while the tire is rubber) Socrates2008 (Talk) 12:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
- Erm . . . a rim plus a tyre does NOT equal a wheel! A "rim" is merely a term for the outer edge of a wheel - in the same way that a "rim" is the outer edge of say a volcanic crater! A "wheel" does NOT need to have a tyre attached to be called a wheel. -- Teutonic Tamer 22:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- It's probably down to regional/country differences in terminology. Socrates2008 (Talk) 22:32, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Composition
189.42.228.115 (talk) 23:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)I have found conposition of ZK60: Mg- 5,6% Zn and 0,55% Zr by w. Could I add it to the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.42.228.115 (talk) 23:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
