Fuel Wheels Review (2026): D576 Specs & Verdict

The Fuel Off-Road D576 Assault is the street-stance wheel in Fuel’s one-piece cast line: a deep concave face behind a simulated beadlock lip, sold in the reference fitment this review judges — 17×9, dual-drilled for 6×135 and 6×139.7, at -12mm offset with a maker-stated load rating of 2,500 lb per wheel. This review judges that one wheel on the maker specifications reproduced by the retailer spec listings for that exact 17×9 fitment, and on the owner record the design has built in fitment galleries. Wheel listings are fitment-specific, so every figure in this review names the size and bolt pattern it belongs to, and no figure is transferred to the line’s other sizes. The full category picture sits in our best truck wheels guide and the truck wheels archive.

One finding shapes this whole review, so it goes first: no Amazon listing for the D576 Assault could be verified — not in the pillar research, and not when the check was repeated for the head-to-head work. The Assault is therefore sold through wheel stores, and this review never gives it a buy button of its own. Wherever the affiliate gate requires a button under the Fuel, you will find a written alternative instead — the Method MR703 below, with its own verified button and an honest warning about which trucks that button does and does not fit. Short version: buy the Assault for the dual-drill coverage and the stance, skip it if you need bead retention at low pressure or a wheel that does not cost you payload. Truck owners building the whole setup should also read our best truck winches and off-road winch guides.

Quick compare — the D576 Assault against the three pool alternatives on the maker-stated facts that decide a wheel purchase. Each row is that wheel’s stated reference fitment; patterns and widths differ, and the table says so. The Fuel row carries no button of its own because no Amazon listing for it could be verified.

How to choose the D576 Assault — and when to choose something else

Bolt pattern first: the dual-drill is the Assault’s real headline

A wheel that does not match your bolt pattern does not fit, whatever the styling. The D576 reference fitment is dual-drilled 6×135 and 6×139.7, which is why one part covers the F-150 and the GM, Ram and Toyota 6×139.7 crowd in a single listing. Count your lugs and confirm the pattern from the table below before anything else — and remember the dual-drill belongs to this 17×9 part; other Assault sizes carry their own drillings.

Load rating against half the axle GAWR

The sizing rule never changes: a wheel’s load rating must clear half the gross axle weight rating of the axle it sits on. The Assault’s 2,500 lb per wheel clears that maths for the half-ton trucks its patterns target, with headroom for levelled trucks on 33in tyres. It does not make the Assault an HD wheel — 8-lug trucks working at rating belong on a 3,640 lb class wheel like the Arsenal alternative, whatever the Fuel line’s 8-lug sizes claim on their own listings.

Offset and backspacing: -12mm is a stance decision

At -12mm offset and 4.53 in of backspacing, the 17×9 Assault pushes the tyre outboard of the stock position — about +44mm on an F-150 — which is exactly the flush-to-poked street stance its buyers want. The costs are real: spray past the flares, more steering effort, and clearance that must be checked at full lock with the tyre you actually run. If you want the tyre tucked and the paint clean, a nearer-stock offset in another line is the honest buy.

Hub bore: read the conflict before you order

The pillar research records the reference fitment’s hub bore as 106.1 mm, while one retailer table for the same SKU lists 87.1 mm — the F-150 hub figure for a dual-drilled wheel. Both numbers are printed in the detailed review below rather than hidden. A bore larger than your hub needs hub-centric rings; a bore smaller than your hub does not fit at all. Verify the bore on the seller’s listing for your exact part number before the tyres are mounted.

Weight: 42 lb a corner is the Assault’s honest cost

At 42 lb in the 17×9 fitment, the Assault is the heavy wheel in this review — the AR172 alternative weighs 26.42 lb in the same nominal size, and the Method 31.6 lb in a narrower width. Unsprung weight is felt in steering response, ride over broken pavement and fuel use, and four corners of it also eat into payload. Buy the Assault knowing the number, not despite it: the deep concave face that creates the look is also where the metal is.

Simulated beadlock is styling — say it plainly

The ring around the Assault’s lip is a simulated beadlock: it looks like the clamping ring on a competition wheel and clamps nothing. No part of this wheel holds a tyre bead at low pressure. Drivers who air down need a bead-retention technology — the Method alternative’s Bead Grip seat is the pool’s answer — or a true beadlock where the law and the use allow it. Judged as styling, the Assault’s lip is well executed; judged as hardware, it is not hardware.

Bolt patterns for D576 shoppers

Bolt pattern, hub bore and typical stock offset for the trucks that shop this wheel most, carried over from the pillar research. Offsets are typical stock values and trims vary — confirm against your own truck before ordering.

Truck wheel choices by budget tier

Tiers here describe specification and warranty position, never a price promise — wheel prices move by size, finish and season, so this review prints none. The Assault sits mid-tier on that honest basis: you pay for the design, the dual-drill coverage and the stance, not for bead technology or a weight saving.

Types of truck wheel, compared

The Assault is the first row. Whichever type you choose, the truck around it still needs a recovery plan that does not depend on wheels: see our recovery kit guide and getting out of mud without a winch.

Detailed review: Fuel Off-Road D576 Assault

The full Section 7 review of the D576 Assault follows — specs for the 17×9 reference fitment only, fit, pros and watch-outs, what owners report, and who should walk away — then a shorter comparison section for the three alternatives.

Street Stance Pick: Fuel Off-Road D576 Assault

Reviewed product — Best Street / Beadlock-Look in the pillar guide

Why the D576 Assault is our pick

For a levelled half-ton that lives on pavement, the Assault’s case is coverage plus stance: one dual-drilled 17×9 covers both the F-150’s 6×135 and the 6×139.7 crowd, at -12mm, with a 2,500 lb rating and a deep concave face behind a simulated beadlock lip. It is honest about what it is — a street wheel with trail styling, not a beadlock — and this review judges it on exactly that brief, in the 17×9 fitment only.

D576 Assault key specs

• Maker part number: D57617909845 (17×9 reference fitment)
• Reference fitment: 17×9, dual-drilled 6×135 / 6×139.7, -12mm offset — the only fitment specified in this review
• Load rating: 2,500 lb per wheel (reference fitment)
• Construction: 1-piece cast aluminium
• Hub bore: 106.1 mm (reference fitment — one retailer table lists 87.1 mm for this SKU; verify before ordering)
• Backspacing: 4.53 in (reference fitment)
• Finish: Gloss Black Milled
• Sizes offered in the line: 17×9, 18×9, 20×9, 20×10, 22×10; 5-, 6- and 8-lug patterns (figures above are 17×9 only)
• Weight: 42 lb (reference fitment)
• TPMS: Compatible
• Warranty: Lifetime structural; 1-year finish (retailer spec data)
• Bead retention: None — simulated beadlock-look lip only, not a functional beadlock

D576 Assault: fits and best for

F-150s first — the dual-drill is one of few stated fitments in the pillar pool covering 6×135 — and 6×139.7 Silverado, Sierra, Ram and Tacoma trucks wanting a -12mm street stance on 33in tyres. It suits levelled trucks that stay on pavement or graded roads, where the stance is the point and the weight is an accepted cost. If the same truck also winches, pair the wheel choice with our F-150 winch guide, Tacoma winch guide or Wrangler winch guide as appropriate.

D576 Assault pros and watch-outs

D576 Assault: what owners report

D576 Assault: who should not buy

Skip it if you air down seriously — a simulated lip holds nothing, and the Method MR703 alternative below is the bead-retention pick. Skip it if payload is tight or the truck tows at rating on an 8-lug axle: 42 lb a corner is real unsprung weight, and the Arsenal alternative carries the HD rating. Skip it, finally, if you need the bore question answered by the listing alone — the sources conflict, and a hub-centric-exact buyer should choose a wheel whose fitment data does not.

D576 Assault: pair it with

A street-stance truck still ends up at trailheads, trailheads still produce stuck trucks, and a rated snatch block doubles a winch’s line pull on a proper mount. The WARN Epic below is from this site’s verified pool — it is an accessory recommendation, not a wheel button — and the full kit logic is in our essential winching accessories guide.

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Buying the Assault: it is sold through wheel stores under part D57617909845 for the 17×9 dual-drill fitment — confirm the bore and the drilling for your truck on the seller’s listing before ordering. Alternative with a verified Amazon listing: the Method MR703 Bead Grip below. Note exactly what its button buys — a 17×8.5 in 6×139.7 only, at 0mm offset. It fits the 6×139.7 trucks the Assault covers; it does not fit a 6×135 F-150, whose buyers should order the Assault itself from a wheel store.

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The alternatives, briefly

Three pool wheels answer the briefs the Assault does not lead. Each is judged on its maker’s specifications for its stated fitment and carries its own verified button; the full category treatment is in the pillar guide.

Method Race Wheels MR703 Bead Grip

Alternative — low-pressure trail use

• Fitment listed: 17×8.5, 6×139.7, 0mm offset (part MR70378560800)
• Load rating: 2,650 lb per wheel; 3,640 lb in the line’s 8-lug fitments
• Construction: solid A356 aluminium, T6 heat treatment; patented Bead Grip bead seat
• Hub bore: 106.25 mm (this fitment); backspacing 4.75 in; weight 31.6 lb
• Warranty: lifetime structural (maker claim via listings); TPMS compatible

The functional answer: where the Assault’s ring is styling, the MR703’s bead seat is engineering — Tacoma and overland owners credit it with holding beads at low pressure, and it weighs about 10 lb less a corner in a narrower width. It is also this review’s written alternative under the Assault, with the same fitment warning: this button’s pattern is 6×139.7 only. Tacoma and 4Runner owners weighing the whole build should also see our 4Runner winch guide.

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We may earn a commission at no cost to you. Listing shown for 17×8.5, 6×139.7, Gloss Titanium — select your fitment on the listing; this pattern does not fit 6×135 trucks.

Black Rhino Arsenal

Alternative — heavy-duty 8-lug

• Fitment listed: 17×9.5, 8×180, +12mm offset (part 1795ARS128180M25)
• Load rating: 3,640 lb per wheel (8-lug fitments)
• Construction: 1-piece cast aluminium monoblock, full-face design
• Hub bore: 125.1 mm (8-lug fitments); backspacing 5.7 in (reference fitment)
• Line: 16, 17, 18 and 20 in; offsets -44mm to +38mm; 5-, 6- and 8-lug patterns
• Warranty: not published in the sources checked

The rating answer: 3,640 lb per wheel is the number an 8-lug truck working at its axle ratings actually needs, behind a full face that shrugs off gravel rash visually. Owner coverage is thinner than the half-ton picks and the wide fitments are heavy — both said plainly. HD recovery thinking to match is in our heavy-duty truck winch guide.

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We may earn a commission at no cost to you. Listing shown for 17×9.5, 8×180 — select your fitment on the listing and confirm its load rating for your axle.

American Racing AR172 Baja

Alternative — classic & light

• Fitment listed: 17×9, 5×127, -12mm offset (part AR1727973)
• Load rating: 2,500 lb per wheel; 2,800 lb in the line’s 6×139.7 17×9 fitment
• Construction: 1-piece cast aluminium, classic 8-hole design
• Hub bore: 83.06 mm (reference fitment); backspacing 4.53 in; weight 26.42 lb
• Line: 15, 16 and 17 in; widths 7–10 in; finishes Polished and Satin Black
• Warranty: lifetime structural / 1-year finish; TPMS compatible

The weight answer: at 26.42 lb the Baja gives back roughly 15 lb a corner against the Assault, in a simple face owners praise for easy cleaning — with the honest watch-outs that the polished finish needs upkeep in salt country and the 83.06 mm bore needs rings on 71.5 mm Jeep hubs. Jeep fitment thinking continues in our Jeep winch guide.

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Spec comparison

Every figure is the maker’s published figure for the stated reference fitment. Where a maker publishes nothing for that fitment, the cell says so. No scores are printed — this site does not test wheels, and a score would fake a precision the spec sheets do not support.

Fitment & installation

Fitting any wheel in this review is tyre-shop work: mounting, balancing and a TPMS relearn, followed by a torque check in a star pattern and a re-check after the first 50 miles. The decisions that are yours come before the appointment. First, pattern and bore: confirm the bolt pattern from the table above, and settle the Assault’s bore question on the seller’s listing for part D57617909845 — if the bore is larger than your hub, order hub-centric rings with the wheels, because retrofitting them means breaking the tyres down again. Second, offset and clearance: the Assault’s -12mm pushes a 33in tyre outboard, so check full-lock clearance against your truck’s flares, liners and mud flaps with the tyre you actually run, not the stock size.

Third, hardware: wheels in this class ship without lug nuts in most listings, and the lug seat type must match the wheel — conical-seat wheels need conical-seat lugs, torqued to the vehicle maker’s figure, never an impact-gun guess. Keep the spare honest too: a stock spare on a different offset is a limp-home device, not a fifth matching wheel. The level of care is the same one we ask for mounted hardware in our Bronco winch guide, Gladiator winch guide and pickup winch guide — fitted correctly, then checked on schedule.

Safety essentials

Recovery gear pairs with the trucks these wheels dress, and these three are from this site’s verified pool, alongside the setups in our accessories hub:

WARN Epic snatch block — doubles line pull with a winch on a proper mount.

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GearAmerica tree saver strap — protects anchor and tree on a winch recovery.

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AMBULL shackles — rated connection hardware for the kit.

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Build the full kit from our tree saver guide, snatch block guide and shackle guide — gear carried, maintained and rated, never improvised at the trailhead.

Troubleshooting

Who should NOT buy these

You air down for trails. The Assault’s ring clamps nothing, and no styling lip substitutes for bead retention. Buy the Method MR703 alternative for its Bead Grip seat, or a true beadlock where your use and local rules allow it. Our pillar truck wheels guide scores the whole field by use.

You run an 8-lug truck at its ratings. A 2,500 lb half-ton fitment is the wrong specification for a working 2500 axle, whatever the stance. The Arsenal alternative’s 3,640 lb 8-lug fitments are the honest buy, and the sizing discipline is the same one in our truck winch sizing guide.

You count payload carefully. Four 42 lb wheels spend payload before a single bag is loaded, and the effect on steering and economy is in the owner record. The AR172 alternative returns roughly 15 lb a corner in the same nominal size. If every pound matters, the light wheel wins — see also our winch value guide for the same discipline applied to recovery gear.

You want a fitment with no open questions. The Assault’s hub bore is recorded two ways in the sources, and this review prints both rather than choosing quietly. If verifying a bore on a seller’s listing is friction you do not want, choose an alternative whose fitment data is single-sourced — and buy through the truck wheels archive with the pattern table above open.

Final verdict

Reviewed product — Fuel Off-Road D576 Assault: the dual-drill street-stance pick in 17×9 (part D57617909845), rated 2,500 lb, sold through wheel stores — no verified Amazon listing exists, so start from our truck wheels category and the seller listings in Sources.

Trail alternative — Method MR703 Bead Grip: the bead-retention pick for trucks that air down. Check its price.

Heavy-duty alternative — Black Rhino Arsenal: the 3,640 lb 8-lug pick for working HD trucks. Check its price.

Classic alternative — American Racing AR172 Baja: the light, classic pick for Jeeps and older trucks. Check its price.

Verdict on the Assault itself: buy it for the coverage and the stance, in the 17×9 dual-drill fitment, with the bore verified and the weight accepted — and keep the truck’s recovery honest with the gear in our off-road winch guide and essential winching accessories.

FAQ

Are Fuel wheels any good?

On the evidence this review can print: the D576 Assault’s maker specifications are honest half-ton numbers — a 2,500 lb load rating, a lifetime structural warranty in retailer spec data, and one dual-drilled 17×9 that covers the F-150 and the 6×139.7 crowd. Its costs are equally documented: 42 lb a corner, a simulated beadlock lip that is styling only, and thinner long-term owner coverage than Method’s. Good for the street-stance brief; the wrong tool for bead retention or HD ratings.

Is the Fuel D576 Assault a real beadlock?

No. The ring on the Assault’s lip is a simulated beadlock — a styling detail shaped like a clamping ring. Nothing on this wheel mechanically clamps the tyre bead, and it must never be aired down on the strength of the look. For low-pressure bead retention in this review’s pool, the Method MR703’s Bead Grip seat is the engineered answer; a true beadlock is a separate, maintenance-heavy category.

What trucks does the D576 Assault fit?

The reviewed 17×9 reference fitment (part D57617909845) is dual-drilled 6×135 and 6×139.7, so it bolts to F-150s (6×135) and to the 6×139.7 half-tons — Silverado and Sierra 1500, 2019 and newer Ram 1500, and Tacomas to 2023 among them. The wider Assault line also sells 5- and 8-lug sizes, but each carries its own drilling, offset and figures — this review specifies the 17×9 only, so verify the exact part for any other truck.

How much does the Fuel D576 Assault weigh?

42 lb per wheel in the 17×9 reference fitment, per the retailer spec data in the pillar research. That makes it the heavy wheel in this review: the AR172 Baja alternative weighs 26.42 lb in the same nominal size and the Method MR703 31.6 lb in a narrower 17×8.5. Expect the weight in steering feel and fuel use, and count four corners of it against payload.

What is the D576 Assault’s load rating?

2,500 lb per wheel for the 17×9 reference fitment. Against the sizing rule used across this site — a wheel must clear half the gross axle weight rating of its axle — that rating suits the half-ton trucks its dual-drill targets, with headroom for levelled trucks on 33in tyres. It is not an HD specification: 8-lug trucks working at rating need a 3,640 lb class wheel like the Arsenal alternative.

Why is there no buy button for the Fuel wheel in this review?

Because no Amazon listing for the D576 Assault could be verified — the pillar research searched for one, and the check was repeated for later comparison work with the same result. Rather than button a listing that might be the wrong size or pattern, this review leaves the Fuel button-less, names its wheel-store part number, and puts a written alternative with its own verified button directly under it, as the site’s affiliate gate requires.

Will the -12mm offset rub on a stock truck?

It can. The -12mm offset and 4.53 in backspacing move the tyre outboard of the roughly +28mm to +44mm stock positions in the fitment table, and gallery owners run this fitment on levelled trucks for a reason. On a stock-height truck with a wider or taller tyre, check full-lock clearance against liners and flares before ordering; the safe assumption is that a level and the stock tyre size are the combination this fitment was photographed on.

What lug nuts and rings does the Assault need?

The sources checked do not bundle hardware with the wheel, so plan on lug nuts bought separately in the seat type the wheel uses, torqued to the vehicle maker’s figure in a star pattern. For hub fit: the reference bore is recorded as 106.1 mm (with one retailer table listing 87.1 mm for the same SKU), so on hubs smaller than the bore, fit hub-centric rings at mounting time — retrofitting them later means breaking the tyres down again.

Fuel Assault vs Method MR703 — which should I buy?

Buy the Assault for the dual-drill coverage and the street stance, accepting 42 lb a corner and a cosmetic lip. Buy the MR703 for function: a Bead Grip bead seat for aired-down trails, a 2,650 lb rating and about 10 lb less per corner — but only in its own patterns, because the listed MR703 fitment is 6×139.7 only and does not cover a 6×135 F-150. The honest split is styling and coverage against engineering and weight.

Sources & changelog

Manufacturer and retailer spec sources, and the owner sources paraphrased above:

• CSP Racing — Fuel D576 Assault specs (17×9 reference fitment)
• Summit Racing — Fuel D576 Assault specs
• ThreePiece — Fuel D576 Assault fitment page
• THMotorsports — Method MR703 spec listing
• PartsEngine — Method MR703 maker data
• TireAgent — Black Rhino Arsenal specs
• Summit Racing — American Racing AR172 specs
• Custom Offsets — bolt-pattern guide
• Custom Offsets — Fuel Assault fitment gallery (owner trucks)
• TacomaWorld — wheel fitment discussion
• Fitment Industries — AR172 buyer ratings

Changelog — October 18, 2026: guide first published.

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