How do you tell apart a real bbs LM wheel and the bbs lm reps?

**vinny.dtw** · 10-10-2007 06:35 PM

Just out of curiousity. Besides the center caps saying bbs, and bb5. Is there anyway to look at the wheel and differentiate the two? call me a newb, but i can't see the difference between the wheels yet.

**manguyen** · 10-10-2007 06:43 PM

i would think the wheel itself would say so. There should be markings on the wheel and not the cap that says BBS

**vinny.dtw** · 10-10-2007 06:50 PM

Well that i know, I'm talking about visually. Not taking the lugs off and inspecting behind the wheel

**80020vr6** · 10-10-2007 06:50 PM

Below is a blow up of the real LM center. You can see distinctive info stamped into it.

**A4ringedONE8T** · 10-10-2007 06:51 PM

I believe BBS is stamped on the wheel face somewhere between rivets. The real BBS wheels also have a serial number stamped in the hub. The real ones are also multi piece, you should be able to look at the barrell and tell that

**akademiks120** · 10-10-2007 08:00 PM

^^ yeah..theres a huge difference between the BB5 barrels and the BBS barrels. Pretty much, when you see a real set, you will know it is a real set.

**A4B603** · 10-10-2007 09:00 PM

i have the reps and THEY LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME other than the markings on the rim and the real ones look More 3 piecy (if thats a word) than the reps. I have a ton of morons around my way and they just hate that i have LMs and they cant afford it... lol Lucky they dont know the diff.