Wheels Revealed: 18" Base, 20" Base, and Premium Wheel

[TyPope]

Yeah, Jeep Wrangler models moved to standard 18" with the JK. It was weird, but I guess it was to accommodate for larger brake calipers. I'm sure the CT will not be able to fit anything smaller than 18" for the same reason.

*Sigh* 15" steels, good times.

I was restoring a 1960 4-door Ford Falcon... This was in 2009. That Falcon had Sears tires with tubes! I wanted to keep the original look and it took me forever to find 13" tires. It was easier to drop in the 302, intake, carb, headers... No. No it wasn't easier. disregard. It sucked a bucket of donkey b@!!$.

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[Jon Snow]

There is a reason why you never see hubcaps on pickups. The exception being baby moons. Black Star hubcaps littering highway shoulders will be a cringe joke to CT owners. Our local extremely narrow one mile long bridge in Hood River, OR is already littered with mirrors and fender flairs.

Why would hub caps come off a truck and not a car? I doubt the wheel “knows” what it is attached to.

 

[Jon Snow]

It really depends on how you will use the truck. For people who don’t off-road and prefer better handling the 20” wheels are fine. I just priced 20” vs 18” in an all-weather (Nokian) tire and they were within $40 of each-other. Not a big deal IMHO when you are spending this much on a truck.

 

[Trbizwiz]

I want these
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1260376832...uid=1nf_9fgisug&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[ED_SFO]

Found this pic of 18" wheels and cover I believe..

 

[sstevens805]

Found this pic of 18" wheels and cover I believe..

If that would have been on the original CT I would have not been interested. It's amazing how much of a difference wheel & tire choice make. That looks awful lol

 

[Dirt Worker]

Cars aren't immune to launching the plastic saucers as evidenced by roadside pothole carnage. Why build a state of the art, stainless steel electric pickup and put plastic hubcaps on it?

 

[scottf200]

 

[cvalue13]

Found this pic of 18" wheels and cover I believe..

Those are just the Pirelli tire option on the base wheel option (with the base aero covers on) - still a 20” rim and 35” tire

 

[Crissa]

There is a reason why you never see hubcaps on pickups. The exception being baby moons. Black Star hubcaps littering highway shoulders will be a cringe joke to CT owners. Our local extremely narrow one mile long bridge in Hood River, OR is already littered with mirrors and fender flairs.

That's because people suck at driving, not because hubcaps are bad.

*Sigh* 15" steels, good times.

Wheels that weighed more than modern hub motors.

-Crissa

 

[SolarWizard]

Yeah, Jeep Wrangler models moved to standard 18" with the JK. It was weird, but I guess it was to accommodate for larger brake calipers. I'm sure the CT will not be able to fit anything smaller than 18" for the same reason.

*Sigh* 15" steels, good times.

17” wheels come standard on the vast majority of wrangler/gladiators. Its a perfect tire size for 33-39” tires that see road duty because the sidewall can still flex like crazy but way less squirm or shoulder roll in corners.

 

[tmeyer3]

17” wheels come standard on the vast majority of wrangler/gladiators. Its a perfect tire size for 33-39” tires that see road duty because the sidewall can still flex like crazy but way less squirm or shoulder roll in corners.

You're right! I misspoke. The jk Sahara is the one with 18". Thx for the correction.

I always liked 35", personally. Not too expensive, still capable enough.

 

[Tedacules]

18 inch MUCH lower tire cost versus larger
Better off road
potentially better range
Higher probability of finding a snow tire option

20 inch may look better cosmetically and can provide more performance less body roll due to likely lower sidewalls versus smaller wheels

Wait for marsian wheels or many others to make wheels for the CT.

 

[Dazureus]

If they allow any wheel package with any performance package, maybe I'll get the 18" and wear down those tires, then get aftermarket 20's with M+S and winter tires for the 18" when they wear out at the end of the season.

 

[RVAC]

The contour on the street tire's sidewall seems to suggest that wheel cover underwent a late running change ... or at least it sure looks like it did

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