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    Default Question on Durability of ROTA Wheels?

    actual article here :

    cant be bother posting the pictures.


    Discuss.
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    Originally Posted by cicca_294
    my dads mate is getting one, in white, aus delivered.
    his mate has an imported on in white,
    and their mate has a blood red one with a 25k new exhaust system...

    i wish i had enough money for a freaking corolla

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    Ok,I'll bite.

    - This is fairly clear.

    I've been in the motor industry since 1996. I've never seen a genuine Japanese-made wheel,being cast or forged fail in service. I've knocked back several cars for rego due to having buckled knock-off taiwanese wheels,and had one car need to be towed away as it had cracks through half of the spokes on both of the near-side wheels. I've never had to do that to a car with TE37's...

    Cheap stuff is cheap for a reason. All the manfacturers you listed above that have used cast wheels likely weren't charging $150 each for them. There's nothing wrong with cast wheels,provided that the castings are done properly,using quality material. Cheap stuff is made to a price more than to a recipe. A brand new wheel that costs $150 retail is not going to be good quality. It might be stamped with VIA and JWL,but that doesn't mean that the design was actually tested to those standards. Can anyone seriously say that stuff out of China is strictly quality controlled,or that copyrights hold any weight there? Ask anyone who bought a knock-off Greddy SR20 sump a few years back if you want an example. Most of those were porous castings...not a desirable feature in an oil sump.

    I'm sure plenty of people will get by perfectly well with knock-offs. Some won't. Some people like to do things well,some like things to do things well enough.

    What people buy is up to them. I won't buy copies,and I won't encourage anyone else to either.


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    2 out of 4 on friends sil have stress "marks" cracks, 1 out of 4 on mates R34, huge crack on inside and has been reapired, but as they both say, they dont care for the price there paying

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    I couldn't not put my 2c into this. A few years ago I bought a set of axis (sportmaxx) hayashi street copies, because I wanted 15*8's and me being a first year apprentice at the time I couldn't drop $2000 on real hayashi's. I've had them on two cars now and they have taken an absolutely massive amount of punishment from me, still perfectly round and still balance almost perfectly. I've only ever heard of anyone damaging rotas or sportmaxx when they were truly being a dickhead, great wheels when you're on a budget.

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    to the OP you should put your post in quotations because it looks like you wrote it

    also the person that wrote it obviously have a vested interest in the wheels

    he sells them and probably at much higher margins than other wheels on the market

    would you run copy tyres with the same tread wear rating and same pattern?
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    They still look gay.

    *IMO

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    Do those exist?


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    yes

    and blue streak bought a lot of good years moulds
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    happens with tyres all the time, especially with cheap tyres, order tyres at work for a car(4 tyres) and get 2 with one name and the other 2 have different names, the treads identicle, wear rating etcetc, same type different name(knock/cheapy anyway)

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    good point . done ! =P
    Originally Posted by cicca_294
    my dads mate is getting one, in white, aus delivered.
    his mate has an imported on in white,
    and their mate has a blood red one with a 25k new exhaust system...

    i wish i had enough money for a freaking corolla

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