Angrey
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The CF wheels are impractical for the reasons you just stated. They're impossible to replace at reasonable costs, near impossible to repair (and certainly not cheap there either) and you don't have to be a material scientist to know that CF does not do well in abrasion or impact loading.Made in the same factory or made by?
To the OP, here you have the baddest set of wheels on your car now. You have wheels that at one point in time were almost unobtainable. I believe they would run about 20k per wheel before Ford had them mass produced and made them more affordable.
One of the key performance features of the car is the carbon fiber wheel. And you want to downgrade to an aluminum wheel? Because of the color?
To each his own I guess, but IMHO you already have the baddest set of wheels on your car now.
I agree that CF technology pushed the state of art and if money were no object, I'd be rocking them. I could easily afford to buy a set, but what I couldn't stomach is damaging them and even my meager Signature wheels have chips and scars from what limited driving I do (I've never curbed them and yet they have minor rock spawling and typical road scars).
I love the Ford 7 spoke design, I think it's simple and elegant and lord knows it's way easier to clean than many of the other patterns I find appealing.
The stories about how bad roads are seem to be the same as how bad drivers are. Newsflash, roads and drivers are bad everywhere. But I can tell you in my area, there's days when I'm thankful I daily drive a 4Runner. And even then I grit my teeth and frown when hitting patches, manholes that aren't at the correct elevation (cause traffic doesn't allow to swerve around) different road section transitions that have excessive abrupt lippage, etc, etc. Daily driving any sets of wheels is brutal and I don't imagine most parts of the US are any different.
Point is, the CF wheels are awesome. They're just not practical. And as I understand it, they're getting harder and harder to source (in the used marketplace) and lord knows no one wants to pay retail to buy through Ford.
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