The Car Wheel or Rim is a circular metal item which your rubber tires are mounted to. Car Wheels or Rims enable your tires to mount perfectly to all four hub assemblies thereby connecting your Car, Truck, or SUV to the road. They’re pretty darn important to make cars go, stop, and ride super smooth. 🙂
Is it a Wheel or a Rim? That is the million dollar question. After 20+ years of serving customers with their OEM Rims/Wheels needs, I say they are the same thing.
Technically most Wheel Nerds consider the “Rim” to be only the “Barrel of the Wheel”, or the Metal that is used directly where the Tire Mounts to the Wheel. The “Wheel” is then considered the whole metal item including the Spokes, Barrel, and the Center area or “Hub” which connects to the vehicle’s hub assembly. To make it even more confusing, a few Wheel Nerds consider the “Wheel” to include the Tire as well. We have run into a few customers over the years who consider the “Wheel” as the Rim/Wheel and Tire altogether.
Here’s the Bottom Line on this for me – Car Wheels and Car Rims are the same thing for 99.99% of the population. It is the Whole Metal (usually Silver) Item in the middle of your tires, which your tires are mounted to, which make the connection to your car’s hub assemblies via Lug Bolts or Lug Nuts.
So Call them Wheels or call them Rims – We know what you are talking about!
Is it a Factory Rim or OEM Wheel or Original or what is it? It’s all of the above and more.
OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer which is basically the same as saying “Factory” or “Original” or “Stock” or “Replacement”. No matter which word you use to describe your Car Wheels, you are saying the same thing. If you are reading this now, you more than likely searched on Google using the above keywords along with your car, truck, or suv name. I sure hope so, that’s how we pay the bills here 🙂 And…we have the best prices online.
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Thanks for the 5 Stars Dorrance, one word, NICE!
Needed to get a second set of factory OEM wheels for our GMC Yukon Denali so we could swap summer and winter tires over more easily. Ordered the 4 wheels from FLW and they got here promptly and in perfect condition. The GMC dealership mounted our summer tires on them and put them on the vehicle with no modifications required. All and all a great transaction. I will refer other people to FLW if they are in the market for reproduction OEM wheels.
Hi Justin, happy everything went great! It's amazing how many guys at dealerships are impressed with the OEM Wheels, thanks again for the 5 Stars.
I received the wrong wheel. It turns out they didn't have the one I wanted in stock, so I had to send mine back. I finally found a used one from another vendor.
UPDATE: Bobby has been pretty cool about this whole thing. It turns out, the wheel with the square indentations is really tough to come by. I finally found one, but it was used [the vehicle had been involved in an accident]. Honest mistake on Finish Line's end. Just be aware of what you're ordering and make sure the one you want is the right one.
Hi Daniel, thanks for the 4 Star Review and thanks for understanding on the mix up. That's one where the same Factory Rim has a very subtle difference with the same part number - they didn't create a new part number in the book. Thanks for understanding and glad you found a good used one.
Fit perfectly on my 2016 Nissan Sentra. Didn't take too long to deliver.
Awesome, thanks for the 5 Stars Kristal. That's the nice thing about OEM Wheels, they always fit perfect!!
Acura MDX 20x8.5 OEM Alloy Rim 2019-2020 A.71865.LC106.MA
Thanks for the 5 Stars Dennis, I'm a fan of that MDX Rim I like the Machined face with Charcoal Pockets 2 tone look.