Difference between mac wheel and alloy wheel
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What is the difference between mag wheels and alloy wheels?
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Marc Whinery, Computer expert since age 5, expert of everything, even if only in my mind.
Answered Oct 11, 2016
Mag wheels means “anything not iron-alloy/steel” Alloy means “any alloy not made from iron”. They are functionally identical. Magnesium wheels were “abandoned” because they were expensive, and other alloys caught up. Magnesium wheels often leaked air. Through the rim, not around it.
Mag wheels generally don’t contain mag(nesium). “Alloy” wheels exclude alloys of iron. So both terms are wrong, but they are the terms that stuck. Though alloy did come from “aluminum alloy” so it may have been correct at some point (as was mag). But now, neither is technically correct, and both are widely used, and interchangeable, though usage depends on location.
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Marc Whinery, Computer expert since age 5, expert of everything, even if only in my mind.
Answered Oct 11, 2016
Mag wheels means “anything not iron-alloy/steel” Alloy means “any alloy not made from iron”. They are functionally identical. Magnesium wheels were “abandoned” because they were expensive, and other alloys caught up. Magnesium wheels often leaked air. Through the rim, not around it.
Mag wheels generally don’t contain mag(nesium). “Alloy” wheels exclude alloys of iron. So both terms are wrong, but they are the terms that stuck. Though alloy did come from “aluminum alloy” so it may have been correct at some point (as was mag). But now, neither is technically correct, and both are widely used, and interchangeable, though usage depends on location.
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