The material of forged wheels

Let's explain what material the wheel hub is made of, so that you can estimate their cost correctly.

The wheels on the market can be divided into two categories: steel wheels and alloy wheels. Both are good and bad.

The production cost of steel wheel hub is relatively low, and the metal fatigue resistance is strong, which belongs to the cheap and strong type. However, it has no appearance, heavy weight, poor heat dissipation and is very easy to rust.

On the contrary, the alloy wheel hub has high production precision, which makes it relatively expensive, has good visual appearance and light weight, so that the weight of the whole car can be reduced to some extent, and it also contributes to the fuel consumption. In addition, it will not deform easily at high speed and heat dissipation is good, but the price will be much more expensive than steel wheel hub.

Alloy wheel hub is divided into aluminum alloy hub, magnesium alloy hub and carbon fiber composite hub.

Aluminum alloy wheel hub is made of aluminum and other metals. It has the advantages of light weight, good heat dissipation and small inertia resistance.

Magnesium alloy is currently the lightest structural material with good mechanical properties, which has been widely used in vehicle and electronic fields.

Carbon fiber composite wheel hub is a new type of material wheel which has been launched soon, and the market is still relatively rare. But BMW has tried to install it on the I8. Interested friends can pay attention to it.

Generally speaking, steel wheel hub is cheap and strong, but easy to rust and heavy weight. Alloy wheel hub has advantages in all aspects, but the cost is high. Some alloy wheels bearing the banner of being cheap must be unreliable fakes. Please identify them more and don't be cheated.