5500 wheel manufacturer?

[Pressure_welder]

Good day everyone! so i just wanted to confirm. But is it Alcoa that provides the factory aluminum wheels for 3500 and up? I thought i remember it being on the build website when i built my truck back in 2022. The dealer has no idea..... obviously. If they cant read it from a pamphlet good luck. and i cant seem to find any markings on the wheels themselves. havent taken them off either though. Reason i am curious is Alcoa has a 60 month warranty for bubbling/chipping which my rears are certainly doing, and the fronts are starting. So i was looking to put a claim in.

 

[superjoe83]

Not sure on the 19.5's but my '22 3500 has made in China Mopar branded wheels. I think the real alcoas on the 3500's were phased out a decade ago

 

[Pressure_welder]

i see no offical alcoa markings on them so you may be right, it would make sense that they would go with some cheap chinese mfg

 

[Brutal_HO]

AFAIK, they haven't been Alcoa's for quite some time.

 

[jeffmcpa]

AFAIK, they haven't been Alcoa's for quite some time.

 

[H3LZSN1P3R]

They are not alocas and even if they were the ones sold to RAM were not able to be covered by Alcoa from what i was told talking to my Alcoa sales rep a few years back

 

[Pressure_welder]

good to know! i guess it makes sense they would go with an overall cheaper wheel. On a side note, its funny how desperate some of these dealers are to make sales are around here.... however the pricing there providing is disgusting, and acting like its a fantastic deal.

 

[gprguy]

There are two styles of 4500/5500 wheels - the Alcoas have 8 holes and the shoulder of the holes are a squared off profile. Those were the early trucks, I think up till 2020 roughly? Not positive. Here's one of those:



Later trucks have the not-Alcoas and have 10 holes with a chamfered edge profile to the holes:



In both cases the bolt pattern is 10x225 so you could put a set of the old Alcoas on a new truck as far as I can see.

FWIW, I needed to buy two extra of the new style and I found them on eBay as A grade insurance takeoffs for like $350 each. Dealer price was around $950. They were as close to mint as mattered especially since I had them blasted and powder coated.