Looking for people who abuse the piss out of their SCS wheels

Lips are luckily easy to see. "Hidden" cracks on the inside of the wheel would concern me everytime I drove home from a hard wheeling trip. But cracks might only be an issue on the cheap chinese alloy wheels?

Personally I would not run SCS on anything used hard offroad cause you cant get replacement wheels in any kind of timely manner. So you would need to order 6 of them just to be sure you had one in reserve, and yes that is what my friends have done and I think it is just another thing to have to worry about.

If you want alloy, and you wheel hard, then only real option is a wheel manufacturer that will always have stock so you dont have to sideline your rig for weeks/months.

Should mention that I have peeled steelies beads and welded them back up and drove home. Wouldnt be able to do that with an alloy. But again it just goes back to how hard you wheel and what you want to worry about, or not.

I wouldnt hesitate to run SCS on an overland rig.

 

Another good point. I hate worrying about things when on the trail it's distracting and leads to bad desicions. That being said, there aren't any steel wheels that fit. The only set I could find that fit are now made differently so they will not clear my calipers. There is too much life left in my tires to change to a 17. But the truck is basically undrivable in its current state. Also the wheels must have a minimum of 4.25 bs to clear the spindles. So that takes a lot of wheels out.

 

Buy five wheels and run a real spare

 

Kinda like this

 

Ya but scs

 

Well I went to order some, one minute 5 were available the next 3.. I got mad and drove the 15 min to my local 4x shop and got methods for cheaper. They also stock them so if I blow em up I can get the spare replaced same day.