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Originally Posted by CamaroDreams07
Wheels cost so much money now. It's unbelievable.
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Now? Not so. Keep in mind that most of you out there were used to buying 16-18" wheels for previous cars. Some of you may have felt wheels in that size range were already expensive. I remember having customers nearly fall over to see $3K on a set of 18s about a decade ago.
20s and larger have
always been expensive. Their prices have actually come down in the last 10 years since the sizing has become more mainstream.
Keep in mind that these are forged wheels. They aren't cheap Chinese cast junk poured into a wheel-shaped Jello mold with low quality recycled materials. Forged wheels start out as a huge disk of forged aluminum, top-quality material. Then it gets machined into a wheel, using state of the art CNC milling equipment.
TaylorRyan, "overpriced" is a relative term. I don't think you understand how much the materials alone cost. Then you factor in the six-figure machining equipment, company overhead costs like; employee salaries, marketing expenses, paint finishers, assembly labor, QC inspections, CNC programmer costs, testing, building rent, etc... all these add to the company costs. Wheel companies have to make a profit too, to stay in business. There isn't as much profit in each wheel as you think, a wheel like this might have 8-10% profit in it at the end of the day. Pretty reasonable.