Originally Posted By: Rand
One of the big advantages of tire rack steelies(or other wheels purchased from them at same time) is you get free roadforce mount and balance.
Tire rack steelies have cheap paint(I sprayed mine very thin paint from TR). But they are hub centric and not junky lug centric like the DTD "unique" steelies
DTD I wouldnt use any of their steel wheels, they will also free mount and balance. 10$ extra per tire for road force. They come ready to go on. Free shipping.. TR shipping for me was about 100$
My tire rack steelies came all beat up with paint scraped off all over but TR customer service gave me half off the wheels and I just painted them instead of returning.
Slush planing is mostly a severe issue where you have ruts that all 4 wheels ride in. Around here the slush usually only affects 2 wheels at a time and I thought the ws-80 were quite excellent at crossing crusty piles that develop on the interstate between lanes.
You will lose MPG with the ws-80 they are definitely not LOW RR.
Hakka R2 and michelin xice xi3 have superior mpg I'd estimate at 5% better.
I have the xice xi2's and they are pretty unstoppable.
The whole deep snow fail thing is overblown.
Maybe if you put them on a suv with clearance for deep snow then tried to drive unplowed roads in colorado.
The xice xi3 will get you though ANYTHING that wouldn't be ripping off parts of your new car.
Thanks for all this!
Im leaning one of a few ways...
Believe it or not, the 225/50-17 size has more options than most! That said, they can be $40-90 more than many of the 16" sizes. I looked at the TR recommendations for -1 sizes and think that 215/60R-16 is a good compromise in that it gets a good number of low cost options and at the same time is only 1.2% off on the speedometer.
So then I looked at wheels. Keep in mind that my wheels are two tone with a machined face and black accents. Its an all black car, so I kind of liked the dark wheels.
Two tone machined wheels seem to be all the rage, I saw them on a 2016 Accord pre-release...
All in all to have dark wheels, and strong ones, that means steelies, or some aftermarket wheel. Yes, there is an Accord 16" but it doesnt get the dark color I was (sort of, I think) interested in. I also looked into last-gen 16" steelies, which are an OE option, and also found some great 5-spoke silver CR-V wheels...
Ill be the first to admit that I know next to nothing about buying wheels... So I looked at Tire Rack as most other places didnt really seem to show much of value. Maybe it was just me.
My first preference was forged. Tough to find any good looking, modern 16" forged wheels, but may be user error.
So I at least wanted low pressure cast, not just gravity cast. Found some decent American Racing ones, but theyre Chinesium.
But then I found that BBS has a wheel for my car that is in athracite and is first-world made.
Regular 16" steelies dont look that great:
But I did find an image on another forum of what are late-model CR-V silver steel wheels which I think look decent, especially if I was to get them nicely painted blackish or dark grey-silver color. Then you get the strength of steel with a slightly improved look.
Im leaning towards the five spoke steel or the BBS currently, but knows???!?