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Want your BMW to stand out? It's harder to find a quicker, easier, or more effective way to do that than a set of aftermarket wheels. The right wheels for your BMW make it really pop. They make it stand out. They make it yours, and that might be the most important part. Chrome, black, or brightly colored, a wheel can enhance the look of your ride. It can also make your BMW better for on-track performance and withstand the abuses of circuit use, or you can get a wheel that's more suited for a show that gives you that perfect stance with wider and shorter tires. Whatever your look, we've got some of the best BMW wheels for you.
Vorsteiner is one of the leaders in flow forged wheels, and they specialize in European luxury models like BMW. Flow forged wheels use a unique process that helps make the aluminum stronger in the directions that are important for a wheel. Like impact resistance. They're also lighter, because weight is the enemy of handling, and that's most important when it comes to unsprung weight. The V-FF 111 takes one of the brand's classic designs and modernizes it. It's two five-Y spoke designs combined into one wheel for a look that absolutely stands out from any crowd. It's made to fit your 3 Series, 4 Series, or 5 Series, with a stunning carbon graphite finish, in 18 and 20-inch diameters
Motegi Racing has been building wheels for more than 20 years, and their efforts include wheels used on racing cars in multiple top-tier series. The MR118 wheel offers a classic multi-split-spoke design and is offered in painted finishes including black as shown. The concave face helps give you a little bit of that deep-dish look, while a lifetime warranty on the structure of the wheel helps give you some reassurance of a long life, impressive for a wheel with this low price. Since the company develops real racing wheels and applies that technology to their road-going offerings, you can be assured of a strong and durable wheel that makes your BMW look great.
Forgiato makes extremely high-end three-piece wheels. They take their inspiration from jewelry, with elegant lines and thin spokes, and can make even one-off wheels if that's your jam. Starting off importing wheels and then transitioning to making their own to ensure high-quality, Forgiato wheels are made in the US from US-sourced alloys. These are not racetrack wheels, but they are wheels that are mean to perform on the street and make your vehicle look absolutely its best. Don't go for the three-piece look with fake bolts, get the real thing with this stunning design, available in a wide range of finishes including powder coated.
BBS is one of the classic wheel looks that everyone else tries to emulate. Even some factory wheel designs (of course some BMW factory wheels actually come from BBS). A two-piece wheel, BBS says that the LM-R uses technologies that the company developed for their Porsche Carrera Cup racing wheels. An update of the classic LM that's been around nearly 30 years and started off being used by 24 Hours of Le Mans racing teams, the LM-R is lighter and tougher than the original, as well as offering a slightly simpler design with half the number of spokes.
TSW says that this wheel design wasn't manufacturable. Until they spent months working with their engineers to ensure that every intricate corner could be built at just the right angle to create this look. Two split-five-spoke overlapping designs make a 3D mesh pattern with just the right angle on every spoke to make an appealing sharp edge. TSW was founded in South Africa by a national champion Formula 5000 driver and the company made wheels for automakers before splitting off its aftermarket lineup. This is a design that takes the classic multi-spoke and brings it into the modern era for your modern BMW.
Beyern Wheels makes wheels only for BMW. They have so many great looking BMW wheels that we could have filled this list with them but forced to pick just one we've gone with this one. The Beyern Multi turns up the Alpina look with 25 spokes in all for an ultra-fine and super cool appearance. A deep dish and mirror cut lip make the entire wheel pop, if you'll pardon our wording, and really sets your BMW out from the rest of the crowd. It's available in 17 through 22-inch diameters and offers up to four inches of lip depending on just how deep you want to go with your ride. So, get ready with the wheel brush because while you might need to spend more time keeping these shiny, we don't think you'll mind one bit.
Brixton Forged wheels are made in the US by a company based in Beverly Hills. Basing your company in one of the most high-end auto scenes in the world helps them to know what is hot and stylish and what is old and busted when it comes to making your BMW X5 look great. These wheels are a simple five split-spoke design that looks like nearly nothing at all between your rim and your center cap, showing off the massive brakes that BMW M has fitted to your X5 or X6. A lifetime structural defect warranty is combined with a two-year warranty on the finish of the wheel, the latter much longer than the industry standard.
Volk TE37s are one of the original road car competition-use wheels. The 37 in the name comes from the very first 15-inch sizes weighing just 3.7 kg. Today the larger sizes are heavier, but these chunky five-spokes are still an excellent choice for racetrack use. The latest model with new rim stickers and spoke design has trimmed up to 400 grams depending on the size, and that pays dividends when it comes to racetrack use. SL for Super Lap means an even stronger wheel designed for the abuse that modern performance cars like your BMW M3 can inflict on a wheel. Forged for strength, they don't even bother with center caps to save weight. Rays also gives you the wheel stickers separately so you can install them wherever you'd like.
HRE Wheels has long been one of the leaders in aftermarket wheels and the FF10 shows why. The spokes are more intricate than any factory offering yet are still amazingly thin for an extremely lightweight appearance. They're flow formed as the name suggests, made like HRE's competition series, but one-piece instead of a two-piece design. HRE offers this wheel in 15 different finishes including black, gold, and silver, but you can even get bright or deep blues and brown colors. Really, you can match or contrast with the finish of nearly any BMW paint and that's one of the features that sets HRE apart from the rest.
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How to Buy Wheels:
There are a few important details when it comes to wheel sizing. The first being diameter, or how many inches it is across, measured where the tire sits. Your BMW probably came with wheels between 17 and 22-inches, and you can usually add a larger wheel without an issue. Smaller wheels may not fit over your brakes, so that's an important consideration.
Next up is the bolt pattern, how far it is from one wheel stud to the one across from it. Nearly all BMWs after the E30 used a 5x120 pattern, meaning five lugs, 120 mm across the center. The latest BMW pattern is 5x112, or 112 mm across, and is shared with other automakers including Audi and Mercedes-Benz. While adaptors can fix this, letting you use one wheel on the wrong size car, it's an expensive and elaborate fix that makes getting the right fit tough. So stick with stock here
Bore size is the diameter of the hole in the middle of the wheel. This sits on a same-size lip on the car's hub and is what holds the wheel in place while you fasten it. A bore size smaller for the wheel than the car means the wheel won't fit, which is nearly impossible to fix. A bore size larger is acceptable, but it's recommended that you buy hub centric ring spacers, a thin plastic part that takes up the space between the outside of the hub and inside of the wheel, ensuring a proper fit.
Width is how wide the rim surface is, and this needs to match the tire you're planning to use. Every tire comes with a rim width recommendation, usually allowing a two-inch range of wheel widths that will work. Using wheels to wide or narrow for the tire can compromise safety while going too wide can also mean the wheel hits your suspension or bodywork.
Last up is offset, the distance from the center of the wheel (if you're looking at it from the side) to the face that touches the hub. This number affects how far in or out your wheel sits. Positive offset means the face is closer to the outside of the wheel (the street-facing side) and negative offset means that the face is closer to the inside. Concave wheels, or deep-dish wheels, have a high negative offset. This figure is important as moving the wheel in or out from stock can mean the wheel and tire hit your fenders or your brakes and suspension. Stick with stock or check out our forums for recommendations and photos of what wheel will fit and look right on your car.
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Lead photo courtesy Vladimka production / Shutterstock
Want your BMW to stand out? It's harder to find a quicker, easier, or more effective way to do that than a set of aftermarket wheels. The right wheels for your BMW make it really pop. They make it stand out. They make it yours, and that might be the most important part. Chrome, black, or brightly colored, a wheel can enhance the look of your ride. It can also make your BMW better for on-track performance and withstand the abuses of circuit use, or you can get a wheel that's more suited for a show that gives you that perfect stance with wider and shorter tires. Whatever your look, we've got some of the best BMW wheels for you.
Vorsteiner is one of the leaders in flow forged wheels, and they specialize in European luxury models like BMW. Flow forged wheels use a unique process that helps make the aluminum stronger in the directions that are important for a wheel. Like impact resistance. They're also lighter, because weight is the enemy of handling, and that's most important when it comes to unsprung weight. The V-FF 111 takes one of the brand's classic designs and modernizes it. It's two five-Y spoke designs combined into one wheel for a look that absolutely stands out from any crowd. It's made to fit your 3 Series, 4 Series, or 5 Series, with a stunning carbon graphite finish, in 18 and 20-inch diameters
Motegi Racing has been building wheels for more than 20 years, and their efforts include wheels used on racing cars in multiple top-tier series. The MR118 wheel offers a classic multi-split-spoke design and is offered in painted finishes including black as shown. The concave face helps give you a little bit of that deep-dish look, while a lifetime warranty on the structure of the wheel helps give you some reassurance of a long life, impressive for a wheel with this low price. Since the company develops real racing wheels and applies that technology to their road-going offerings, you can be assured of a strong and durable wheel that makes your BMW look great.
Forgiato makes extremely high-end three-piece wheels. They take their inspiration from jewelry, with elegant lines and thin spokes, and can make even one-off wheels if that's your jam. Starting off importing wheels and then transitioning to making their own to ensure high-quality, Forgiato wheels are made in the US from US-sourced alloys. These are not racetrack wheels, but they are wheels that are mean to perform on the street and make your vehicle look absolutely its best. Don't go for the three-piece look with fake bolts, get the real thing with this stunning design, available in a wide range of finishes including powder coated.
BBS is one of the classic wheel looks that everyone else tries to emulate. Even some factory wheel designs (of course some BMW factory wheels actually come from BBS). A two-piece wheel, BBS says that the LM-R uses technologies that the company developed for their Porsche Carrera Cup racing wheels. An update of the classic LM that's been around nearly 30 years and started off being used by 24 Hours of Le Mans racing teams, the LM-R is lighter and tougher than the original, as well as offering a slightly simpler design with half the number of spokes.
TSW says that this wheel design wasn't manufacturable. Until they spent months working with their engineers to ensure that every intricate corner could be built at just the right angle to create this look. Two split-five-spoke overlapping designs make a 3D mesh pattern with just the right angle on every spoke to make an appealing sharp edge. TSW was founded in South Africa by a national champion Formula 5000 driver and the company made wheels for automakers before splitting off its aftermarket lineup. This is a design that takes the classic multi-spoke and brings it into the modern era for your modern BMW.
Beyern Wheels makes wheels only for BMW. They have so many great looking BMW wheels that we could have filled this list with them but forced to pick just one we've gone with this one. The Beyern Multi turns up the Alpina look with 25 spokes in all for an ultra-fine and super cool appearance. A deep dish and mirror cut lip make the entire wheel pop, if you'll pardon our wording, and really sets your BMW out from the rest of the crowd. It's available in 17 through 22-inch diameters and offers up to four inches of lip depending on just how deep you want to go with your ride. So, get ready with the wheel brush because while you might need to spend more time keeping these shiny, we don't think you'll mind one bit.
Brixton Forged wheels are made in the US by a company based in Beverly Hills. Basing your company in one of the most high-end auto scenes in the world helps them to know what is hot and stylish and what is old and busted when it comes to making your BMW X5 look great. These wheels are a simple five split-spoke design that looks like nearly nothing at all between your rim and your center cap, showing off the massive brakes that BMW M has fitted to your X5 or X6. A lifetime structural defect warranty is combined with a two-year warranty on the finish of the wheel, the latter much longer than the industry standard.
Volk TE37s are one of the original road car competition-use wheels. The 37 in the name comes from the very first 15-inch sizes weighing just 3.7 kg. Today the larger sizes are heavier, but these chunky five-spokes are still an excellent choice for racetrack use. The latest model with new rim stickers and spoke design has trimmed up to 400 grams depending on the size, and that pays dividends when it comes to racetrack use. SL for Super Lap means an even stronger wheel designed for the abuse that modern performance cars like your BMW M3 can inflict on a wheel. Forged for strength, they don't even bother with center caps to save weight. Rays also gives you the wheel stickers separately so you can install them wherever you'd like.
HRE Wheels has long been one of the leaders in aftermarket wheels and the FF10 shows why. The spokes are more intricate than any factory offering yet are still amazingly thin for an extremely lightweight appearance. They're flow formed as the name suggests, made like HRE's competition series, but one-piece instead of a two-piece design. HRE offers this wheel in 15 different finishes including black, gold, and silver, but you can even get bright or deep blues and brown colors. Really, you can match or contrast with the finish of nearly any BMW paint and that's one of the features that sets HRE apart from the rest.
CHECK PRICE
How to Buy Wheels:
There are a few important details when it comes to wheel sizing. The first being diameter, or how many inches it is across, measured where the tire sits. Your BMW probably came with wheels between 17 and 22-inches, and you can usually add a larger wheel without an issue. Smaller wheels may not fit over your brakes, so that's an important consideration.
Next up is the bolt pattern, how far it is from one wheel stud to the one across from it. Nearly all BMWs after the E30 used a 5x120 pattern, meaning five lugs, 120 mm across the center. The latest BMW pattern is 5x112, or 112 mm across, and is shared with other automakers including Audi and Mercedes-Benz. While adaptors can fix this, letting you use one wheel on the wrong size car, it's an expensive and elaborate fix that makes getting the right fit tough. So stick with stock here
Bore size is the diameter of the hole in the middle of the wheel. This sits on a same-size lip on the car's hub and is what holds the wheel in place while you fasten it. A bore size smaller for the wheel than the car means the wheel won't fit, which is nearly impossible to fix. A bore size larger is acceptable, but it's recommended that you buy hub centric ring spacers, a thin plastic part that takes up the space between the outside of the hub and inside of the wheel, ensuring a proper fit.
Width is how wide the rim surface is, and this needs to match the tire you're planning to use. Every tire comes with a rim width recommendation, usually allowing a two-inch range of wheel widths that will work. Using wheels to wide or narrow for the tire can compromise safety while going too wide can also mean the wheel hits your suspension or bodywork.
Last up is offset, the distance from the center of the wheel (if you're looking at it from the side) to the face that touches the hub. This number affects how far in or out your wheel sits. Positive offset means the face is closer to the outside of the wheel (the street-facing side) and negative offset means that the face is closer to the inside. Concave wheels, or deep-dish wheels, have a high negative offset. This figure is important as moving the wheel in or out from stock can mean the wheel and tire hit your fenders or your brakes and suspension. Stick with stock or check out our forums for recommendations and photos of what wheel will fit and look right on your car.
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These are all 5X120
What no love for the 5X112 guys?
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