BMW OEM Wheel manufacturers...

[vsonix]

I'm trying to find out information on who makes/made the various standard or optional wheels that BMW fit to their cars. Preferably alongside a list of the individual styles. There are a couple of websites that list all the different designs but none list the manufacturers.

I've managed to find out a few. For example:

Style 5, 17, 19, 29, 41, 42, 127, 133: BBS
Style 18, 63, 125: Borbet
Style 23: Rondell
Style 38: OZ (I think)
Style 71: Cromodora

I know many are made by Ronal but not specifically which ones; they tend to be the more 'standard' designs though.

anyone know where I could find such info or know any specifics on any other styles I haven't mentioned?

[vsonix]

Is that a whopping great crack

yowsa

Cromodora are related to OZ in some way are they not?

I used to have a set of the Style 71 made by them. They seemed like good, strong, light split rims. I had them in the E39 fitment which looked a lot nicer than the 18" E46 fitment on the 330ci Club Sport. They were also available in a lower-offset 18 inch but as far as I can tell, only in the USA where, as far as I can tell, they came as some kind of dealer fit option for E39 M5.

[vsonix]

roofer said:

It is. Also suffered the same with Alpinas, made by Ronal.

I had to double check, it's so fat it looks like it's been drawn with a 4B pencil.

[vsonix]

Yeah it's a little easier to find out the manufacturers of Schnitzer, Alpina etc as they're usually stamped up on the inside. Whereas I think a lot of OEM stuff has it printed as per the picture of the cracked one above and once the wheel's been cleaned a few times you can't see it any longer.

Funnily enough sometimes exactly the same wheel gets picked up by different tuners. For example the Hartges I had on my E36 coupe were made by OZ. 11 spoke, v classy. Show the same wheels in 5x112 instead of 5x120 to a Mercedes person and they'll be, "Ah yeah nice set of OZ Carlsson"

[vsonix]

ah cool yeah that fills in a few blanks on the list!
cheers mate

[vsonix]

• bump* for this old thread to see if anyone else has anything more to add?

I'm still quite keen on compiling some sort of list of manufacturers that can be cross referenced with the BMW wheel style list.