{"id":1732,"date":"2011-07-25T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.originalwheels.com\/blog\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2016-05-19T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T22:04:34","slug":"difference-between-rims-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.originalwheels.com\/blog\/difference-between-rims-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference Between Rims &#038; Wheels?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that most people get confused between \u201crims\u201d &amp; \u201cwheels\u201d. When I first started working here, I would ask: \u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between the Cadillac wheels &amp; the Cadillac rims?! How do I know which original\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalwheels.com\/cadillac-wheels\/dts.php\">Cadillac DTS wheels<\/a> the customer needs?! What do I do?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I was a bit dramatic, but thankfully they got over it.<\/p>\n<p>The thing with OE wheels &amp; rims is that they have the same function, they go on the same part of every car, they\u2019re usually made of the same materials (depending if you have alloy wheels or steel wheels), and they both look really nice when they\u2019re clean&#8230; especially the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalwheels.com\/cadillac-wheels\/dts.php\">Cadillac DTS rims<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>So I guess you can say that they\u2019re the same thing&#8230; just with different names. I say &#8220;po<em>tay<\/em>to,&#8221; you say &#8220;po<em>tah<\/em>to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1a46e4;\"><strong>You know?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #1a46e4;\"><strong>Mykalanne.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I used to get confused when people said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalwheels.com\/cadillac-wheels\/index.php\">Cadillac Rims<\/a> &#038; Cadillac Wheels, then I&#8217;m sure you get confused as well. Do you know the difference between the two words? It took me a while to understand it, but this blog should take less than 3 minutes to read &#038; understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157,576,419,269,5,7,6],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wheels-information","tag-cadillac","tag-cadillac-dts-rims","tag-cadillac-dts-wheels","tag-oe","tag-original","tag-rims","tag-wheels"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Difference Between Rims &amp; Wheels? - OriginalWheels.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.originalwheels.com\/blog\/difference-between-rims-wheels\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.originalwheels.com\/blog\/difference-between-rims-wheels\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.originalwheels.com\/blog\/difference-between-rims-wheels\/\",\"name\":\"Difference Between Rims & Wheels? 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