If you're not an off-road fanatic, you may have heard the term 'beadlock-capable wheels' or 'beadlock wheels' in relation to preparing a car for going off road. This refers to a rather special type of ...

Well luckily, you have us, and we know, and were here to share. The fact is beadlock wheels do exactly what their name says: They lock the tire's bead (the part that's designed to be on the rim of the ...

Of all the car parts that most people wouldn’t build at home, safety-critical items like wheels are pretty close to the top of the list. That goes double for performance wheels, like those with ...

Anthony Capretto is an automotive journalist at CarBuzz with a background in Media Communications and Film from the University of Pittsburgh. Since joining in 2022, he’s covered industry news, EV ...

One of the first things that most truck and SUV owners customize on their rigs is the wheel-and-tire package. This is the proverbial low-hanging fruit, it requires little to no modification (depending ...

Excellent question Jason, as beadlock wheels are not something we've seen too much of, outside aftermarket off-road specialists. And to be clear, in the case of the new Ford Ranger Raptor, we are ...

We’re not quite sure why the Chevy Colorado ZR2 Desert Boss prototype in our latest spy shots is wearing the Bison’s beadlock wheels. One possibility is that GM is simply testing the wheel and tire ...

One surefire way to give any crossover an added dose of coolness is by outfitting it with a set of off-road wheels and tires. Unplugged Performance wants to allow owners of the Model Y do just that, ...

Michal studies Automotive Journalism at Coventry University in the UK, and has been writing for CarBuzz since March 2025. He was nominated for student culture piece of the year recently and has been ...