On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Ben McCafferty wrote:

> He rents westies out of Redwood City, and always puts steel wheels on them.
> I believe it's because they're easier to fix/harder to ding.

Same reason I will never put alloy wheels on any vehicle I own here in
Michigan.  We get humongous potholes in the freeways here.  Alloy wheels
are just too malleable.  A steel wheel will take a pretty good hit before
it'll get bent.
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