How can you tell if BBS alloys are fake?
All of the rivets around the face of the wheel have BBS engraved on them. Dimensions of the center cap are unique… forget what the authentic sizes are. If they have original stem caps, those also have BBS on them.
What is BBS in a car?
BBS was founded in 1970 by Heinrich Baumgartner and Klaus Brand in Schiltach in the Black Forest. The company name is an acronym for Baumgartner Brand Schiltach. Plastic auto body parts were initially manufactured at the plant until 1972, when an innovative three-piece motorsports wheel was designed there.
Is BBS going out of business?
2020 was supposed to be a year of celebration for BBS, with the German wheel manufacturer celebrating its 50th anniversary. Instead, BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik finds itself filing for insolvency.
Are BBS expensive?
If your need for track days exceeds your desire to attack back roads, then BBS can provide you with some race-spec wheels at a relatively reasonable price of $4,550 per wheel.
Who bought BBS?
Punch International
Punch International, a Belgian holding firm, has just announced its purchase of German performance wheel maker BBS. The rising cost of aluminum was cited for BBS’s loss of almost four million euros last year, which forced the company into bankruptcy in May.
Does BBS still make BMW wheels?
BBS produces wheels from the most basic road vehicles, to the most exotic and has developed special wheels for numerous factory racing programs. BBS Cast and flow-formed wheels are standard on many of these vehicles including models from BMW, Ferrari and Porsche, just to name a few.
What is special about BBS wheels?
BBS has produced many cast flow-formed wheels for OE customers like BMW, Ferrari and Porsche. This technology can produce a high performance product that is also a great value. The flow-forming of the rim area creates a rim structure similar to a forged wheel without the higher cost related to a forged product.
Why are BBS wheels expensive?
They said that the rim manufacturers began using the non-ferrous metals. As a result, the price of materials increased drastically, and BBS rims became very expensive.
Why are BBS LM so expensive?
Forged Aluminum So how are a set of forged alloys produced, exactly? Well, you start off with a Billet of 6000 series aluminum, then using a three-phase die-forging process, a semi-finished piece is formed. This is one of the reasons that make a set of BBS aluminum alloys very unique and thus fairly expensive.