What Rims Are Good For a Four Wheel Drive?

When you purchase your four wheel drive, most of them come with steel rims. You can choose to fit other rims, or stick with the steel ones. Your only other option is to fit aluminum rims, which have their advantages but just as many disadvantages. At the end of the day the best rims for your four wheel drive should be based on what you want it to do.

Aluminum rims look much better, but they are well over 5 times the price of steel ones. They are also much lighter, but then they are not as strong, and they are very difficult to repair. When you are 1000 kilometres from the nearest town, you want something that is reliable and that you can bash back into place if anything goes wrong.

I much prefer steel rims because they are cheap, reliable and easy to repair. You can buy a steel rim for 50 dollars, whereas an aluminum rim can cost up to 800 dollars. The number of aluminum rims that I have seen crack or break off road has well and truly put me off getting them. Sure, steel rims are heavier and they don't look as good, but I take reliability over looks any day. You have a few choices for the size and offset of your rims too. Negatively offset rims stick out of the guards further, and give you less chance of rolling.

Bigger rims mean that your tires will cost more, but it gives you better on road capability for steering and cornering. However, they degrade your ability off road as well, so it's a compromise either way. What you want to do though is to come up with a list of what your vehicle is used for, and your budget. Take into consideration your best options and go from there, and you won't regret it.