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20/3/2012 at 1:07pm
Location: Wigan
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Why is it caravan alloys are so ruddy expensive, just been looking on the net and for just alloys no tyres some people are wanting £250 for 2.
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20/3/2012 at 1:44pm
Location: Milton Keynes
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Aren't alloys expensive for what ever vehicle you are buying for? I wanted a full size spare wheel for my Kia Sorento. I was immediately worried when the guy from the local Kia garage suggest thet I might sit down before he told me the price! £500 for wheel and tyre! I managed to get the same style of E-Bay but with the tyre it still cost £200.
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20/3/2012 at 2:03pm
Location: Wigan
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even used ones are expensive, I got a set of 4 genunine Vauchall 18" alloys & tyred that were nearly new off ebay for my vectra for the sum of £200 which was good for a full set, but caravans a only have 2 unless you got a twin axle lol
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20/3/2012 at 4:32pm
Location: durham
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and alloys are not even needed a steel wheel will do the job just as well alloys are for speed the flex less and therefore improve matters at speed Just how fast are we expected to tow? Yes, they are a waste of money
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20/3/2012 at 5:04pm
Location: Sussex
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They do make any van they are on look even nicer though!!
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20/3/2012 at 8:45pm
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I was told that caravan alloys were cambered and not to use car wheels ?
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20/3/2012 at 9:12pm
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I believe that when the aluminium is cast into wheels the aluminium can tend to be porous it is not until the wheel is fully machined and leak tested this tends to give a high reject rate and puts the price up. The introduction of silicon helps with the porosity the down side is that silicon is very abrasive and tends to wear out tooling quicker this puts the price up too.
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20/3/2012 at 9:26pm
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Try getting a replacement for an X-Trail.........£500 new for one from a nissan dealer ...and thats without the tyre! Our Provence does have alloys but only because it came with them......they do look nice but I certainly wouldn't pay for them if they were a cost option!
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20/3/2012 at 11:07pm
Location: Lancashire
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you can not use car alloy wheels as caravan wheels are designed to take more weigh,look good too.
http://www.rimstock.co.uk/wheels.php?identity=wheels#
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20/3/2012 at 11:54pm
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Yes michael was told that to..
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21/3/2012 at 12:18am
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looks good equals extra cost is it really worth it? surely not van tyres do a job and nothing else how much do you have to look at them to say 'wow they look good?' surely there are better things to spend your money on? but the manufacturers have us in their palms because they put them on and there is no choice bit like an oven?
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21/3/2012 at 7:35am
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I would keep the steel wheels alloys don't offer any advantage over steel on a caravan they are not much better on cars it's only on a race track that alloy wheels really make a difference because they dissipate heat better helping to cool the brakes also there can be a weight saving but on the road under normal driving conditions and certainly on a caravan the difference between alloy and steel is mainly cosmetic
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21/3/2012 at 10:23am
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If you weigh both a steel rimmed wheel and aluminium alloy wheel you will find that the steel one is heavier. This weight is applied in the MIRO when the caravan is manufactured due to the extra weight being installed internally such as a microwave etc. the manufacturers had to reduce the weight somewhere else so they used lighter wheels. An alloy is a mixture of two or more metals, in alloy wheels it is usually Aluminium and Zinc so caravan wheels probably contain more Zinc in comparison to a car wheel in order to take the extra weight on one axle. Also the reason why caravan wheels are more expensive is because the dies (moulds) they use to cast these wheels are extremely expensive to manufacture which also have a life span of the volume of wheels they need to produce. There are 4 car wheels to a vehicle whereas with a caravan there are only 2 so they have to calculate the cost accordingly to make a profit on the castings produced so the caravan wheels become more expensive to produce as the caravan manufacturers only purchase a pair at a time (even if it's a twin axle). It's very much the same as motorcycles because if you compare how many motorcycles are produced in comparison to cars then they become more expensive in comparison and this can be seen in the cost of a Haynes workshop manual too. They produce the manuals on the basis of how many were made in production and because there are fewer motorcycles than cars the price of a Haynes motorcycle manual is more expensive. Every manual has to cover the cost of the workmanship, the photography, the troubleshooting, publication and printing but if they are going to sell less of a particular manual due to the volume of production then the price has to increase to cover all the costs involved. Due to the volume of caravan wheels produced this is part of the reason why caravan alloys are more expensive.
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21/3/2012 at 4:09pm
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I'm not impressed with alloy wheels. My new car came with them as standard throughout the range. Mine are OE and not the dearest available as options, but come in at a whopping £300+ per rim. These are rims that take a standard 195/65 R15 tyre.
A year or so later I saw the same model with steel rims. It was a hire car. Our new van will have alloys. Also being supplied with an Al-ko wheel lock, I will have to stick to exactly the same design rims. And steel ones are out unless I go back to a Bulldog clamp. Catch 22 really, because the Al-ko unit is compact and takes up less space.
Swings and roundabouts, eh!
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