Originally I wanted to do a small lift an upgrade to fuel wheels with ridge grapplers on my 2012 xlt but I was told that with aftermarket wheels you need to maintain them and they wont have the ride quality of factory wheels. I looked around and found you can buy 17" raptor wheels for around $600 a set. Would these need to be maintained life aftermarket and has anyone done this? Maybe post a few pics if you have?

 

The tires will affect your ride. Wheels only if you anything over 18''. Tires anything 33'' and up.


Not sure what needs to be "maintained" about them.

 

I was told you need to basically keep them clean and they'll deteriorate quicker and be affected by snow salt and easier to chip and stuff like that

 

 

 

you have to keep wheels clean from brake dust. It will put pits in your wheel if left on to long.

 

@craigmac after 6 years, if OP hasn't cleaned the brake dust off his wheels by now, he's probably not ever going to. How many pages deep did you have to dig before you got to this post and decided THIS was the one to make your first post on 🙄