Was looking at these wheels: Pro Comp Polished Alloy Wheel 18" ad wanted to know how bad will they get in winter with the road salt? How hard will it be to keep them in good shape? I would buy them in black if they had 18", reason for me wanting 18" and not 17" because more tire choices in 18" wheels BFGoodrich T/A KO and Goodyear DuraTrac dont offer bigger tires that are E-rated in 17".
Thanks for the help.
~Gage~
Pro Comp Alloy Wheels Part 1069-8970 - Series 1069 - Polished Alloy Wheel

 

If it's a polished wheel without any clear coat, it's going to look terrible after the first winter. I had a set of polished wheels on my F150 and ran them through a winter.... I will NEVER buy a polished wheel again unless I was absolutely positive that I would NEVER run them through a NH winter again. The wheels I bought had no clear coat and were strictly polished aluminum. NEVER AGAIN. A friend of mine has a set of polished Mickey's on his Dodge and they look fantastic, but he details them throughout the spring/summer months and puts his stockers back on for the winter up here. Even during the spring/summer months he puts in some work to keep them looking good.

If it were me, I would go chrome, painted, or make sure the finish was a deep clear coat. Anything polished only going through a winter is asking for trouble.

 

Thanks, Looks like im going to go with painted black wheels or OEM 18".
Thanks again.
~Gage~

 

i ran polished Ion Alloy 170's on the truck in my sig for 5 michigan winters. i just spent a day every spring detailing them.. i went at them with abrasives so i'm fairly certain they weren't coated, and made sure to spray them off occasionally during the winter. they never pitted. that being said my buddy bought mickey thompson classic II's at the exact same time and after one winter his were trashed.

 

polished wheels are high maintenance, especially in the winter. I have six of them on my work truck and I have no problem keeping them looking like new, but I polish them whenever they start looking dull or get stains on them. In the winter that sometimes means polishing them once a week. Best thing you can do in the winter is rinse them off when you get home at the end of each day, the less you can keep the salt on them the better.

 

Thanks for all the help, well since my truck doesn't "to tall" fit in my garage I think I should get the black.
~~Gage~

 

Best advice is to keep your stock wheels and tires and run them in the winter. No way I'm keeping my wheels on with our winters here.

 

Eagle Alloy's on my 2000 were trashed after one winter here in PA. I pulled the wheels off the truck and spent way too much time trying to make them even look decent. Wasn't worth it...

 

man i musta got lucky then, or Ion uses a great alloy. maybe that wheel and tire combo i had was just a Godsend.. i got just shy of 70,000 miles on the first set of MTZ's.