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Old 01-20-2010, 05:22 AM
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Default RIMZ or WHEELS?

What do you guys call the cylinders that bolt your car's 4 corners wrapped in tires? Do you call them rims or wheels? Or something else, you strange person you. I think they should be wheels, because thats what they are, and always have been called that. When I think of rims I think of gangsta rappers that don't know what they are talking about "y0 look at my rimz on my whip!"




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you just wont let it go will you?!?!?!
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I call them rims when they arent wrapped in rubber and wheels when they are. Or when defining between aftermarket and OEM. Aftermarket rims and factory wheels.
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yeah i agree with navy. a wheels is a complete rim tire package. were as a rim is Just the rim itself. but i would even call a factory rim as itself a rim. and as a complete rim/tire again a wheel.
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yea i agree with navys explination
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90% of the time i call them rims but yes I do understand it isn't the coreect terminology but everyone says it and noone cares about your stand on this lol
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The correct term is wheels, a rim is a part of a wheel.
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I say wheel, rims are for drug dealers and rappers
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IMO the rim is the hoop and a wheel is the hoop and center
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seperate them then! get a RIMMM seperate!! And if you cant well saying you have a set of ZR1 wheels vs. ZR1 rims Well would be the same thing cuz well YOU CANT BUY A ZR1 HOOP/RIM Can Yah?!?!?1 ok moving on.
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