Educate me on wheels...

[Mariners Fan]

Hey Nick,
Unfortunately your website is one of the ones that's blocked by the company servers from the ship I'm on. I'll probably be stuck on board here in Guyana until Aug-Sept. I'd love to work with you at that time or if you could message me some pictures. I saw a truck on here that had Fuel Rebel D680's that I liked the looks of. I really like what Oldfart did with the powdercoating of his stock wheels, just to give you a general idea of what I like....Thanks!

 

[Venerous]

I had some SCS Ray 10's in the matte dark bronze on my Tacoma. Great rims but their offsets usually run negative except for some of the 18's.

Didn't go too thoroughly into them. A coworker/friend of mine just put some on his brand new Taco so after learning they only produce for Toyota and Jeep, I emailed them a polite WTF. Yeah, if all they do is negative offsets then maybe they should just stick to the Toyotas and Jeeps.

 

[Fordraptorrrrrrrr]

Innov8 wheels, it's what I'll be going with in the future.

 

[GhostRHR]

Innov8 wheels, it's what I'll be going with in the future.

good choice alot of $$$ but definitely sick! i've been thinking Titan 7's but may go with the Innov8's as well just gotta decide if i'm willing to drop that kind of coin.

 

[Fordraptorrrrrrrr]

Pretty spendy for wheels that aren't hubcentric.

Um who cares? Best wheel out there IMO

 

[Raptor911]

Innov8 are beautiful wheels but they are heavy. 35 pounds for the beadlock and 30 pounds for the non beadlock. If you are not tearing through the dessert then these wheels are overkill.

good choice alot of $$$ but definitely sick! i've been thinking Titan 7's but may go with the Innov8's as well just gotta decide if i'm willing to drop that kind of coin.

 

[Raptor911]

wheels are not hub-centric but they will sell you center caps that makes the wheels hub-centric and they are $80 each. Expensive as hell BUT They are can be had in multiple colors.

The best wheels are hubcentric.

 

[Venerous]

Didn't go too thoroughly into them. A coworker/friend of mine just put some on his brand new Taco so after learning they only produce for Toyota and Jeep, I emailed them a polite WTF. Yeah, if all they do is negative offsets then maybe they should just stick to the Toyotas and Jeeps.

**UPDATE** From Vuth at Stealth Custom Series (SCS):


Thank you for contacting us and your interest in our line of wheels. Unfortunately, we have no immediate plans to offer wheels for Ford Raptor line. If more Ford Raptor folks ask for it, we'll highly consider it in the future.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks
Vuth


So, if we want options we need to mobilize a coordinated email strike. As this is an Easy Bay Area company, this should go double for you Nor Cal/Bay Area Raptor owners. @Nick@Apollo-Optics - I don't know if they do authorized dealers but I do know you can reach a greater market than me - also seem to remember you saying you had people in the area, maybe that could be our in. Hope this info helps, all.

 

[lateralis]

Yeah the pretty colors are neat I thought about getting a set in a unique bronze color I had my eye on but I was really turned off by the idea of a set of "custom" wheels that aren't even hubcentric. Made me wonder who's really making those wheels if they can't make you a set with the proper bore sizing.

That's why I went with Welds for my truck. At 700 horsepower and 7000 pounds I didn't want to take any chances with non hubcentric wheels.

I'm pretty sure those rims are meant to be run with a full floating axle and that's is why they don't come "hub centric" and they offer hub centric center caps as a separate thing. They are nice in that aspect if at some point you want to go to a full floating axle you don't have to send your current rims to get the centers bored out or try to hunt down rims that can already accommodate that axle.

With that being said you don't get very many options as it seems that they are made to order from the Innov8 site. Weld/CCW are also made to order but they let you do damn near whatever the hell you want. Also... wth happened to all the cool offroad Weld wheels? Seems like their selection went to crap when I just looked at their site....

 

[Dirtypope]

I love my stock wheels