"I bent my rim and need it repaired"
"Damn dog... which part of da rim you bend"
"Uh... the RIM"
"Yeah but which part?"
"The rim IS the part.""How do you measure a wheel's mounting width?"
"From rim to rim."
"Huh?"
"You mean like, from my driver's rim to the passenger's rim, right?"
"No, you dork! Inner to outer or outer to inner." One of my pet peeves is someone who uses wrong grammar (then vs than, your vs you're, who's vs whose) when the English language is their native language. With that said, one of the most recent incorrect uses that I have seen is the substitution of the word "rims" for wheels. I quote the word "rims" because it is used improperly as a substitution for the word wheels. 
From what I have seen, every wheel manufacturer, car manufacturer, automotive motorsport team, any legitimate company that has a name in the automotive industry calls the four round things you have on your car wheels. To me, that fact, along with the fact that Henry Ford's Model T's ran on wheels, is the word for those round metal things that my tires sit on. 
Then what is a rim to me? A rim is a part of the wheel upon which the tire mounts. It's as simple as that. A rim is a part or a single component of what makes up a wheel. Being that twinturbo.net is on the Internet and the Internet is accessible worldwide, we need to make sure non-English speakers can read our posts and understand what we are really saying. I have seen non-English speakers make posts asking for help and other than trying to help, I see people ridiculing the poster saying that they can't understand the post. If we don't write proper English, who is to say others can read what we are typing? Why do we hold others to higher standards when we don't practice those standards ourselves? And yet we complain that our schools don't educate our children enough.
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