On the "Silver stars" in the XJ section. Aren't they Ultra Stars?
Silver Star
http://www.quadratec.com/products/92700_00.htm
Googled Silver and Ultra, seems to be fairly consistent. Anyone care to clarify one way or the other?
Man I know what you mean, and the same confusion has existed since about 2002. Even way back then people were using the terms "silverstar" and "ultrastar" interchangeably for either wheel.
At this point I don't really care, the ones from quadratec were never factory equipped wheels, and are much rarer than the 5.9 "silverstar".
I'm not sure where either name came from, my recollection of factory window stickers from back in the day was that the "silverstars" were only listed at '16" Wheel Package' with no other name.
Which also brings up another point, most of the names we have used on these wheels I don't think ever came from an official Jeep literature(though some undoubtably do). The Ecco and Icon are obvious, they come from the Ecco and Icon concepts respectively.
But what about the Gamblers, Grizzly, Canyons and Ravines? Where do we get those names? Some people have indicated to me that the names came from dealer brochures back in the day, but until someone can find some of those and scan them(which I would love to include on the wheels page as a sort of source for the wheel nomenclature) I'm gonna stick with what I got for now. Even then, at the end of the day I'm betting most of the wheels never had an official cool name like the Icons and Eccos do. The WJ guide has a pretty complete and accurate collection of wheel names, and I can only assume they came from the original literature.
Even then I'm less concerned with making sure all the names are 100% original(though if I can identify what Jeep may have called them I'll use that for accuracy's sake), but rather having a guide so that when people are talking about factory options, restoring a vehicle(that sounds funny now but in 10-20 years we will be seeing that going on) a good reference is in place for the variations and what vehicles they came equipped on(which is one thing I haven't really put in place yet on the guide, what years and models the wheels came on).