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Which Will Give You More Chrome Wheels from the Carmaker or the Aftermarket?

Perhaps all men are different and there is no such creature as a typical man. But you wouldn’t think that to look at the kind of reaction you would easily get, to see any man react to a good find in great chrome wheels for a car. To a man, accessorizing a car with chrome wheels could be the masculine equivalent of what a woman does accessorizing her outfit with a scarf or a designer handbag. The way men see it, what good is success if you can’t find a flashy way to show it off? Sure, a middle-age crisis is easily dispatched with a Ferrari or Porsche. What do you do when you can’t afford one and you still wish to take attention away from your advancing age? And there you have the rationale right there that men use in their choice in brashly attractive mechanical adornments for their cars. When you can’t afford the dream car you always wanted, you have no choice but to customize and accessorize the car you do have.

As much as that mission statement seems ambitious, financial reality does get in the way often. We need our chrome wheels, and we need them at a bargain. There are far too many vendors of chrome wheels out there for you ever believe that all of them are actual manufacturers. Most brand names of chrome wheels come from design houses that do not manufacture on their own. Instead, they draw up their own design specifications and approach a manufacturer with the ability to deliver what they ask for.

Your other choice here of course would be to go to the original equipment manufacturer – the makers of your brand of car. Usually, OEM parts are designed with understated refinement, even if they are built to better quality standards than any aftermarket product usually would offer. Not to mention, chrome wheels from the maker of your car is likely to be cheaper while it adds value to the car. Your car manufacturer uses the same wheels across all models and places orders in huge quantities with a wheel manufacturer. They get economies of scale. But in the end, no matter how much you’re likely to gain going OEM, the flashiness factor does fall by the wayside. Understated refinement and not flashiness are what OEM models are known for. Staying away from OEM than would be your only choice in a personalized chrome wheel purchase.