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Originally Posted by Table 5
Whenever I need tires/wheels, I always start at UrbanX. I haven't had a bad experience yet.
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Looks wise, all the wheels I've gotten from UrbanX (non-OEM wheels) looked great. Heck, even my steelies from them looked surprisingly bad ass. I don't know if they always try to carefully select/stock wheels that match the profile of the vehicles or they like stocking/recommending specific looks that jive with what I'm usually looking for/am willing to pay a slight bit extra for, but they often look better than expected.
I value their expertise when they say a wheel option might not match the looks profile of the vehicle and they've never steered me wrong. I don't even mind that their prices aren't as cheap as they used to be. The value they offer to me is still unmatched. I tried a few other places for my parent's vehicles and was disappointed or indifferent.
Many non-OEM looking wheels I or my friends have been recommended through other shops in town (ie: dealerships) seem good on paper, and then (IMO) they looked bleh in person. I don't include those that self research and self select from a catalogue or order/deliver direct to themselves in this. Just pure recommendations from Bob and his team at UrbanX (ie: "Which do you think will look better out of these ones?").
My buddy has a similar shaped alloy on his van to mine which he selected at a dealership after seeing mine. But mine has a slight variation in design shape and protrusion wise that looks more aggressive and bigger and his looks quite a bit smaller and cheaper. Side by side, the wheels would look 80-90% similar. But on the vans, it's somehow a huge difference in how good they match the vehicle. My buddy's somehow almost looks like he's on 16-17" wheels even though both our vehicles are 18". It might be something conceptually like a concave/convex/flat design of a wheel that gives a specific look that Sliver kinda brought up a few pages back.
Tires are tires though regardless of profile. It doesn't really affect look too much to me. I've never really seen someone buy a tire for a vehicle that I thought looked ugly.