Price, are you REALLY going to play this game with me?

I've been in the rodeo a while...go back and parse my first post that caused you to snipe...

You will see that it is actually a qualified statement that really doesn't make any definitive statement of the "quality of OE vs aftermarket"...but rather states that 'there are crappy, over weight, weak, aftermarket wheels and all the online vendors carry them'

Not that all aftermarket wheels are crappy and overweight.

I bought a set of 18" HRE c20s, 9 up front, 12 in the rear, for the turbo... about $5k plus rubber. Far surpassing OE 'quality' IMO. So no, one cannot say one way or the other which are 'always better' or 'always lighter'.

Here in the X5 world, rarely do people spend the money to equal OE quality in an aftermarket wheel... IMO..but it can be done.

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