Question On Durability Of Rota Wheels

[Frosty]

  On 07/12/2012 at 2:08 AM, ichi-go said:

Let put aside wheels cracking, I bet you havent seen any genuine wheels do this?

BEFORE

AFTER

seems suss! for that to move like that there will be signs of fatique and cracking yet none? well that you can see in the pics

[gtsttrk]

  On 30/11/2012 at 6:40 AM, ichi-go said:

I would question the creditability of the article esp if it's written by some cheap wheel fanboy, and i never said Enkei RPF1s are forged, at least it's not copying someone else

The message we're trying to carry through is

Rota = Company ripping off the design from companies who PAY to have these wheels design/tested

@gtsttrk - Is this you?

Clearly someone doesn't understand The term facetious. Clearly I was making a flippant remark to a somewhat over argued and obnoxious 'have vs have not' debate.

[ichi-go]

Clearly very useful information in your post

[gtsttrk]

Just trying to get your post count up brah?

[France]

  On 29/11/2012 at 2:21 AM, nisskid said:

and people wonder why originality and innovation is slowing despite a growing market?

justify your junk as long as you want, end of the day it's companies like ROTA who choose to imitate and create inferior products at a fraction of the cost that make in not viable to innovate.

Innovation costs money, whether it's the process of creation or simply the losses associated with learning from failures, these costs must be recuperated some how, after doing all the leg work to create a popular design, to have a company come in and near on replicate the wheel and reap the benefits is bullshit, and who ever thinks this is ok needs a kick in the dick. It's one thing for a few manufacturers to create similar designs, it's another for a company to base their whole product line on replica's.

Not only this, but the reputation of many of these good brands have been tarnished by photos of cheap replica junk broken in ways which could only be caused by poor manufacturing, mistaken for the real deal.

I have run a lot of different wheels in some of the harshest conditions possible for wheels, and for people to tell me their cheap junk is anywhere near the strength of the good stuff is a joke, i have bent every type of wheel possible on pot holes and curbs that you couldn't even imagine exist, i have seen the failures of wheels on other's cars first hand time after time. Put simply, your chinese/taiwanese junk doesn't compare to well manufactured wheels, i don't care if your wheels have a big Japanese brand on them, chances are they were still outsourced from some shitty factory in china. I don't care if a "competition drift car" runs rota's, you think they are going to say no to free wheels?

Maybe it's just me, but despite what my car may look like to others, i still believe in taking pride in your car, and for me that's not using cheap replica junk which is destroying the industry, and is clearly an inferior product, just to save a few $$.

Good post. Sums up pretty much all of my gripes with rota wheels.