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Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:23 pm
by GunniPWguy
Thought I would share this find on CL Western Slope, Colorado. Seems like A good deal. If they were 35's I would be all over it.
http://westslope.craigslist.org/pts/3012827862.html
Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:27 pm
by Pit Slave
Chinese ones crack versus the American ones. Ask how I know this....
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Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:56 pm
by GunniPWguy
Pit Slave wrote:Chinese ones crack versus the American ones. Ask how I know this....
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Cheap Chinese crap. Do you know if the wheels would be stamped "made in China"?
Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:54 pm
by vanished
Ok I'll bite... how do you know? What's on my truck? Lol
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Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:02 pm
by LKelly
vanished wrote:Ok I'll bite... how do you know? What's on my truck? Lol
There might be other ways to tell, but a couple years ago we determined that you could tell using the serial numbers stamped inside the wheel...it seemed like the earlier the PW, the more likely it had US-made Alcoa wheels. The thread is probably still on that other site somewhere...though I'm not sure exactly what words to search for in order to find it.
I don't remember if they actually said "made in China" on them...it seems like it was more complicated than that.
Edited to add: Just looked at the pictures, and I guess it is that easy - mine say "USA" on them.
They actually have "USA AWFP-01", which means that they were made by Alcoa in the US - and '01' is the plant number that producted them. They also have the part number, and the date produced.
Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:22 pm
by vanished
Interesting... I'll have to look next time I got my wheels off.
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Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:08 pm
by LKelly
On a somewhat related note, I was cleaning out one of my sheds yesterday and found my set of "normal" 2500 aluminum wheels I bought off e-bay a few years back...and they were made in the USA. Dunno what year they're off of, but I wonder if they moved production of those to China when they moved production of the PW wheels...otherwise it'd be pretty sad if the PW wheels were made there, but the 'normal' wheels were still made in the US.
My steel 2500 wheels were made in Mexico, which makes sense - since they appear to weigh approximately 428 pounds each, it'd cost a lot to ship them overseas.
Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:42 am
by vanished
Btw, mine are USA!
Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:54 pm
by Soupnv
Do you know if these sold the link has expired
Re: Someone selling PW wheels on Craigslist
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:01 am
by myoung84
I have some for sale...