What types of car wheels are there?

According to the surface treatment technology of wheel hub, automobile wheels can generally be divided into two types: baking paint and electroplating.

Baked wheels are generally moderately priced and durable. Generally, the wheel hub design of ordinary models is less considered by roommates. The main requirement is good heat dissipation, and the process is basically baking paint, that is, spraying first and then baking. The cost is relatively economical, and it has the characteristics of beautiful color and long storage time. Even if the vehicle has been scrapped, the color of the hub can remain unchanged.

The price difference of electroplated wheels is quite large. Electroplated wheels are mainly divided into silver plating, water electroplating and pure electroplating. Electroplated silver and water-plated wheels are generally characterized by bright and vivid colors, but their retention time is relatively short, so their prices are relatively cheap, and they are mainly liked by many young people who pursue novelty. Pure electroplated wheels have the characteristics of long-term color retention and are electroplated wheels with high quality and high price.

Steel wheels and alloy wheels

Wheels can be divided into two types according to materials: steel wheels and alloy wheels.

The main advantages of steel wheel hub are simple manufacturing process, relatively low cost and strong metal fatigue resistance, which are both cheap and strong in our daily life. However, the main disadvantages of steel wheel hub are unsightly appearance, large inertia resistance, heavy weight, poor heat dissipation and easy rusting.

Alloy wheel hub has the characteristics of light weight, low inertia resistance and high manufacturing accuracy, especially when rotating at high speed, the deformation is very small, and the inertia resistance is also very small, which is conducive to improving the straight-line driving performance of the car and effectively reducing the rolling resistance of the tire, thus reducing fuel consumption to a certain extent. The thermal conductivity of alloy material is about three times that of steel, which has better heat dissipation and can play a good role in thermal attenuation of vehicle braking system, tire and braking system.

At present, the alloy wheel hub of the original car on the market is mainly made of aluminum alloy. Of course, many modified wheels will choose some elements such as chromium and titanium as basic materials to meet some special requirements and related visual improvement.