Running 4 of the spare steel wheels?

[UM_Ftown]

Not sure I’ve seen this done or maybe I haven’t paid close attention but has anyone buy 3 more steel spare wheels and run a set on their JT. I guess there could be cheaper aftermarket solutions than running the OEM wheel as well?

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[Thunderspud]

The YouTube channel TFLoffroad ran one with 4 Mopar steelies way back, if I recall. I remember liking the way it looked. I think the biggest issue I found when looking into doing the same back then, was the availability of those specific Mopar steelies. Although, that was during Covid maybe? Not sure. Probably easier (and definitely cheaper) to just get steel rims that look similar from another manufacturer.

Edit: Found one of their videos with that truck. This is after a bunch of other mods as well, though. I think the entire idea was they only used Mopar/OEM stuff.

 

[Hootbro]

Been a few threads/posts of people doing it.

 

[whiteglad]

I have two Mojave steel spare wheels but am running 5 aluminum wheels.

 

[drexotic]

I have one with an unused tire here in San Diego for a fire sale price!

 

[JJmoto]

Not sure I’ve seen this done or maybe I haven’t paid close attention but has anyone buy 3 more steel spare wheels and run a set on their JT. I guess there could be cheaper aftermarket solutions than running the OEM wheel as well?

Here’s my JT. Purchased 4 steel wheels from EBay. I forgot the company name, but they were great. One wheel was dented from shipping and they replaced it right away.

 

[Janster]

Don’t buy Mopar steal wheels…there’s probably a gazillion different brands of ‘steal wheels’ that’d be much cheaper.

If you do a lot of offroading / rock crawling…….You’re better off running steal wheels and keep your expensive OEM wheels in the garage.

I will say…. Back in the day, we had steal wheels on the YJ. If you run hard on the trails/rocks - they can get ‘bent’ (and even slightly). We had this strange vibration. We were running Equal in the tires. It’d be totally rare to lose that much Equal in one trip (without having a flat) and/or rare for it to ‘clump’ up.
Discovered the wheel was slightly ‘out of round’ (aka bent). Replace it and wall was good.

 

[davesparky6]

I try to only buy ATVs with steelies… their failure mode is to bend (which I’ve fixed on trail with a big rock lol), compared to aluminum rims which tend to crack. I would assume that extends to off road trucks, but I prefer the look of wheels over steelies (personally).

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