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NateRW21

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Okay, I'm a pretty passive guy usually; rather laid back and things don't get to me too often. But this whole "RIMS" thing is driving me nuts. If you can find me a reputable dealer's website which refers to them as "RIMS", I will be more than happy to apologize. But until then, don't make yourself sound less intelligent than you are, call them what the ENTIRE rest of the industry calls them; WHEELS!!! No tire store, custom shop or wheel company calls their products "RIMS". Do everyone a favor, call it a wheel when you are referring to the entire object; when you have a bend on the "lip"... then you are talking about the RIM. Correct terminology will go a LONG way to making you sound like you know what you are talking about.

You could come in to a custom shop and say in PERFECT English "I would like to buy a set of 18" RIMS for my car and have you put them on" and still sound like a very unaware car owner. OR you could go in speaking in total ebonics and say something along these lines "Playa, I gotta have those WHEELS in 18 Inches... 8 five wide wit tha 5 en 108's" and sound MUCH more knowledgeable than Mr. English Major. I'd even be happy with someone calling them Dubs or whatever... at least you wouldn't be addressing the entire wheel by one specific part of the wheel. It's like saying "I've got a nice, brand new, painted red door." When you actually are talking about a nice, brand new painted red CAR.

Thanks for being understanding and altering the manor in which you refer to those round pieces of metal that the tire wraps around!
 
What difference does it make?? You and the rest of the forum know what they're talking about when they say rims.
 
Seriously, who gives a rat's ass?

And FWIW, Will Castro from Unique Autosports calls 'em rims. Yet to hear him say "we gonna wheel up that guys ride".
 
06AtlantaLS said:
What difference does it make?? You and the rest of the forum know what they're talking about when they say rims.
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What difference does it make? The difference between sounding like someone that doesn't know ANYTHING and someone that is informed. Also, tell me how much sense this makes: "I just put those new OZ rims on when I hit a pot hole and bent the rim on my rims. Thankfully it was only the outside rim of the front rim because I steered clear after the first rim hit."

Doesn't this make much more sense?:
"I just put those new OZ wheels on when I hit a pot hole and bent the rim on my wheel. Thankfully it was only the outside rim of the front wheel because I steered clear after the first wheel hit."



Simple, you sound like you know what you are talking about.
 
Dude we should race doors i bet my door will kick your ass. Hmm, I like it!

Not all slang has to make sense... :facesjump
 
I have to agree with Nate on this one.

It's a Wheel, not a Rim. Unfortunately, in the quest of sounding, acting and being cool, "rims" sounds cooler, I guess.

I'll call them wheels till the day I die. Whenever someone I deal with calls them Rims, I take my wheel and tire business elsewhere.

Is that a little drastic? Maybe. But it's my money.
 
Wow you actually made time to write a whole thread about this and write a couple paragraphs on this. Maybe you should turn on ESPN and watch some basketball or something. Let me guess your in another forum starting a thread about "pop", "soda", "cola" and "coke". People may say "I'm thirsty for a coke", then go order a Sprite. Its just a term to generalize a certain group. This isn't about correct grammar or proper English. I'm from the most wealthy part of Missouri and I say rims. Its all about how you were raised and what era you grew up in. Many different terms have changed from era to era and "rim" is one of those terms. It doesn't mean someone is a moron, it's just different between different areas, states, countries, and people. There could be hundreds of debates just like this one if we took a group of 16 year olds, 25 year olds, 50 year olds and 90 year olds, over time words pick up different meanings, it's just how this country is. Just my .02 cents
 
Realize that not everyone is as "wheel" intelligent as you. I'm going to make an assumption here and say you work at some sort of car store, which if that is the case just quit your job. Realize that not EVERYONE cares about proper terminology when they are in the market for something that makes their car look good, not sound proper. As the previous poster above me said, its really all about where you come from and once again just like the 24's thread, its ALL PREFERENCE.

But, I will agree with you on something here, I have also been getting annoyed lately on this forum. I am in no way directing this towards you because of your topic, but honestly though is there really a reason for Making All Your Beginning Letters Capitalized Throughout Your Entire Post?
 
This thread is going nowhere fast...

To each his own, I guess... But when I hear wheels called "rims", my respect for the speaker's tire/wheel experience goes into the toilet. That is not to say the speaker has no experience with them in general. But in my eyes, they dont have any experience when they call wheels "rims".

oh well....
 
Frogman said:
This thread is going nowhere fast...

To each his own, I guess... But when I hear wheels called "rims", my respect for the speaker's tire/wheel experience goes into the toilet. That is not to say the speaker has no experience with them in general. But in my eyes, they dont have any experience when they call wheels "rims".

oh well....
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It's not going anywhere because this is supposed to be forum where you can ask for help on various subjects, find previous threads that have knowledgeable information, or discuss general LS topics in general. There really is no reason to post a thread about something so minor that annoys you which as we've seen, only leads to unneeded arguing. No one in this world is perfect, and there will always be those people that you encounter during life that make you ask yourself, what the hell were they thinking? It's just best to keep those type of comments in your head.
 
The hell are you talking about, skippy? I'm not the one who started/posted this thread.

Keep my comments in my head? Huh? What I do with my comments is my own business. They are my opinions, and as it turns out, I happen to be an EXPERT on my own opinions. I know, I know. You're as shocked at that news as I was... alas, I will speak them out loud WHEN I feel like it, to whomever I feel like it.
 
NateRW21 said:
Okay, I'm a pretty passive guy usually; rather laid back and things don't get to me too often. But this whole "RIMS" thing is driving me nuts. If you can find me a reputable dealer's website which refers to them as "RIMS", I will be more than happy to apologize. But until then, don't make yourself sound less intelligent than you are, call them what the ENTIRE rest of the industry calls them; WHEELS!!! No tire store, custom shop or wheel company calls their products "RIMS". Do everyone a favor, call it a wheel when you are referring to the entire object; when you have a bend on the "lip"... then you are talking about the RIM. Correct terminology will go a LONG way to making you sound like you know what you are talking about.

You could come in to a custom shop and say in PERFECT English "I would like to buy a set of 18" RIMS for my car and have you put them on" and still sound like a very unaware car owner. OR you could go in speaking in total ebonics and say something along these lines "Playa, I gotta have those WHEELS in 18 Inches... 8 five wide wit tha 5 en 108's" and sound MUCH more knowledgeable than Mr. English Major. I'd even be happy with someone calling them Dubs or whatever... at least you wouldn't be addressing the entire wheel by one specific part of the wheel. It's like saying "I've got a nice, brand new, painted red door." When you actually are talking about a nice, brand new painted red CAR.

Thanks for being understanding and altering the manor in which you refer to those round pieces of metal that the tire wraps around!
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Can I still say dubs?
 
itsnotmydaddys said:
Wow you actually made time to write a whole thread about this and write a couple paragraphs on this. Maybe you should turn on ESPN and watch some basketball or something. Let me guess your in another forum starting a thread about "pop", "soda", "cola" and "coke". People may say "I'm thirsty for a coke", then go order a Sprite. Its just a term to generalize a certain group. This isn't about correct grammar or proper English. I'm from the most wealthy part of Missouri and I say rims. Its all about how you were raised and what era you grew up in. Many different terms have changed from era to era and "rim" is one of those terms. It doesn't mean someone is a moron, it's just different between different areas, states, countries, and people. There could be hundreds of debates just like this one if we took a group of 16 year olds, 25 year olds, 50 year olds and 90 year olds, over time words pick up different meanings, it's just how this country is. Just my .02 cents
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Well, you made another good example of the same thing; COKE is either a brand or a specific type of soft drink. Case in point; if you say I'm going to go get a coke; that means a coke. Not a mountain dew. But that's aside the point. It's about sounding like you have some kind of knowledge base. People don't call spark plugs "electrodes" even though a spark plug has two electrodes.
 
mont said:
Realize that not everyone is as "wheel" intelligent as you. I'm going to make an assumption here and say you work at some sort of car store, which if that is the case just quit your job. Realize that not EVERYONE cares about proper terminology when they are in the market for something that makes their car look good, not sound proper. As the previous poster above me said, its really all about where you come from and once again just like the 24's thread, its ALL PREFERENCE.

But, I will agree with you on something here, I have also been getting annoyed lately on this forum. I am in no way directing this towards you because of your topic, but honestly though is there really a reason for Making All Your Beginning Letters Capitalized Throughout Your Entire Post?
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I agree with your second paragraph... however:

Realize that not everyone is as "grammar" intelligent as you. I'm going to make an assumption here and say you work at some sort of school, which if that is the case just quit your job. Realize that not EVERYONE cares about proper capitalization when they are in the market for something that makes their car look good, not sound proper. As the previous poster above me said, its really all about where you come from and once again just like the 24's thread, its ALL PREFERENCE.

And no, I do not work at some kind of car store. I have been a mechanic in the past and it makes you look about as smart calling an entire wheel by the name of one section of the wheel as capitalizing the first letter of every word.
 
I cant believe I'm wasting my time but, why the hell is this even a thread and what sense does it make....so you hate that word being used in poor context....well I hate when people call crayfish crawllfish....what does any of this have to do with this forum.....I actually hear some people that sell wheels at shops for a living use the blasphemous word RIMS when selling as well. I hate it but I never devised a plan to raise anarchy against it.

Now some people do make improper use of the term but waste space posting bulletins on myspace or something. Or even better how about the "wheel" forum.


Some one close this crap out....
 
lol wat a bunch of anal old guys
u say tomato i say tomaato

get over it as long as were all on the same pg
 
Haha....someone moved it to where it belongs....oh and older spoked wheels where called rims for the simple fact that they are hubs laced to a rim.
people didn't care as much then obviously as there was not much to it just a few wooden spokes and a "RIM". The word wheel was of course used before the invented vehicle but to describe "solid" round masses such as grinding wheels for the black smiths.........


That sparks a question in my mind...what was it originally called.....would you moc the inventors original name seeing how he invented it.
 
NYC LSC said:
It's "beside" the point.



Pot, kettle, black.
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The discussion is about calling a wheel by a specific part of the wheel (that being the rim). Not a grammar mistake that occurred after I ran my IE based spell check.
 
NateRW21 said:
Well, you made another good example of the same thing; COKE is either a brand or a specific type of soft drink. Case in point; if you say I'm going to go get a coke; that means a coke. Not a mountain dew. But that's aside the point. It's about sounding like you have some kind of knowledge base. People don't call spark plugs "electrodes" even though a spark plug has two electrodes.
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NateRW21 said:
The discussion is about calling a wheel by a specific part of the wheel (that being the rim). Not a grammar mistake that occurred after I ran my IE based spell check.
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Really now.
 
You guys should check out his other posts.....calling the forums worthless....LOLOLOLOLOL......
 
God I just realized......shouldnt this be in off topic seeing how this guy went so far off the topic....change it again that was funny....send it to a off topic page.
 
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