Archive for category Wheels
Peeling or Flaking Chrome Wheels
Have you ever wondered what causes the chrome on the inside barrel of a wheel to peel? How about the chrome peeling or flaking on the inside of the tire?
If so, then you are about to be informed by the experts at Metro wheels. Over the past 16 years of doing business, we have seen this problem many times – perhaps daily! Metro wheels receives many wheels for repair where the chrome is peeling or flaking off – either inside the tire area or behind the face of the wheel in the barrel. This is due to several factors.
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Buying & Fitting New Alloy Wheels
There are numerous benefits to fitting alloy wheels to your car. For a start they are cast from aluminium which means they are light-weight, and more attractive than regular wheels. They are great at dissipating brake heat and small amounts of more rigid metals the presence of which helps prevent cracks propagating. They are also available in standardised sizes, to fit almost every car.
One of the best advantages of the wheels in performance terms, is the reduction in your cars unsprung weight, meaning a reduction in rotating mass at the ends of your suspension components. This means improved steering and greater breaking response.
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Wheelskins: Chrome for Styled Wheels
“Wheelskin” is a relatively new term. Wheelskins were invented in the late 1990s to provide an inexpensive way to put chrome on styled wheels.
After WWII, auto racing enthusiasts introduced new technologies and materials to every aspect of race cars to reduce weight and improve speed and handling. One of those improvements, ‘mag wheels’ remains in the vernacular to this day. Halibrand magnesium wheels carried every car that won the Indy 500 from 1946 to 1963. Those early wheels were made of magnesium, which was far lighter than steel, and a even third lighter than aluminum. The major drawback of the true magnesium wheel was the need to polish it regularly, because magnesium reacts rapidly to air and water to produce a heavy surface oxide, which then pits. The shift to aluminum alloys reduced these problems.