This is just for you, RodKnock....

[peterpjb]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Remember, all of these cars, and everything on them, are fake. Expensive, but still just fake little toys.

not necessarily ...

a magnesium wheel is a real magnesium wheel even when it is produced in 2017 and a magnesium lookalike coated wheel is a magnesium fake wheel even when it was produced in 1965..

the fact that most cars don't have a sixties vin isn't any excuse to fake anything on the cars...

just my 2¢

[moore_rb]

Originally Posted by peterpjb

a magnesium wheel is a real magnesium wheel even when it is produced in 2017 and a magnesium lookalike coated wheel is a magnesium fake wheel even when it was produced in 1965..

the fact that most cars don't have a sixties vin isn't any excuse to fake anything on the cars...

just my 2¢

I'm all for originality, but not when it entails prohibitive cost.

Besides the rapid rate of corrosion, Magnesium wheels also have another detractor versus aluminum wheels- They are more brittle, and more likely to crack or break when hitting a curb, etc...

Not to mention the possibility of them going up in flames (and taking the car with them) if you should suffer a blowout at highway speed, and the wheel starts sparking against the pavement...

Just like 5-lug hubs are statistically safer than knockoffs for guys who drive real highway miles on their cars, so too are aluminum wheels statistically better than magnesium.

just my 2 cents

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by moore_rb

I'm all for originality, but not when it entails prohibitive cost.

Besides the rapid rate of corrosion, Magnesium wheels also have another detractor versus aluminum wheels- They are more brittle, and more likely to crack or break when hitting a curb, etc...

Not to mention the possibility of them going up in flames (and taking the car with them) if you should suffer a blowout at highway speed, and the wheel starts sparking against the pavement...

Just like 5-lug hubs are statistically safer than knockoffs for guys who drive real highway miles on their cars, so too are aluminum wheels statistically better than magnesium.

just my 2 cents

These are all old wives tales. The modern version of the magnesium Halibrand Cobra II wheel has/had a different chemical makeup from the old magnesium wheels made for hot rods. I spoke with the manufacturing plant with the Halibrand molds and said it's all BS. Magnesium wheels and other parts are used in racing today.

And if you curb an aluminum wheel, they'll crack too.