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Zitat

This thread is ridiculous

a)How many Rota's do you think I sell in the UK and Europe?
b)How many have I had back from 'falling apart'?

All Rota wheels undergo the same test procedures as any other wheel, I have the JWL and VIA test results for every Rota wheel made, Rota do not let a wheel go unless they significantly exceed the strength requirements for JWL.

I would go into the in's and outs of the wheels shown in the original post, but a rough overview.

a) the bent subzero had hit the brake caliper due in clearance issues, also note that the wheel has been powder coated, which is NOT advisable.
b) THREE of the wheels in the original post are not a Rotas :cuckoo:

one is an HRE (how much are they ?? £3k plus) thats the one with the spokes snapped clean off..
Another of the wheels is a Konig, not a rota

People like to get their knickers in a twist, because Rota's look like the real thing.
This is the only reasonable complaint..

The answer to my original questions?

a) I sell 30,000 rota wheels per year, I have sold in the last 7 years a minimum of 180,000 wheels - thats 45,000 sets.
b) I have NEVER had a warranty claim from a wheel breaking, some claims from laquer peel, but thats bound to happen with the ammount of salt on our roads.

I take this as a personal insult to be honest, if I had ANY doubt over the quality of Rota wheels, there is no chance I would sell them.
The original poster should bare this in mind, as this post really seems to be up to disuade people from buying Rota wheels.

Zitat

Bit more food for thought for you all..

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Enkei RPF01
Another Enkei
Advan
SSR
who makes 350z wheels
Jag
THIS IS THE £3k per set HRE
Rays
Collasped Advan:
CE28
Enkei
VOLK

Yet more food for thought for you all ...

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Glad you bought Work emotions over Rota Torques?!! - you did realise that Work Emotion CR's are not actually JDM? They are cast in taiwan :cuckoo:

on that note - heres a work emotion

Zitat

Hit any wheel hard enough and you will break it.

With a forged wheel it is more likely to bend than to break, however if you hit a forged wheel hard enough to crack and break a cast wheel, the forged wheel will still, for want of a better word, be f**ked.

For those that think that Rota copy forged wheels so they are more likely to break:
The wheels are NOT copied, as in they dont take a mould off the original and then cast it, the wheel is engineered to look similar, whilst still being strong.

We have Rota's on R35 GTR's running full slicks and bouncing off kerbs, no problems whatsover.
Pretty much all of the UK's driftcars running our wheels, no problems.

I will let this go now, but if the original poster continues to slander a product I put my name on the line for then I wont take it lightly.

Zitat

This guy was so annoyed with JDM fanboys slating Rota, he decided to take it into his own hands:
As you can see it's no lightweight low-load track toy, and the xray shows not only a total lack of defects, but everything to be in excellent order and entirely uniform. The track time was maximum attack, taking full advantage of the curbs.

Zitat

I did have a really great article on it, but simply googling 'powder coating weakens wheels' will bring up some information.

Plenty of wheels that are not known to have issues have had issues straight after powdercoating.
It depends entirely on the heat applied, and the length of time it is is applied for, and the exact heat treatment/ make up of the alloy.
As you cant really tell the exact makeup of a particular alloy wheel, it is a bit of a gamble.
I have seen plenty of wheels not known to crack, crack after powdercoating (the S2k wheels above for example) I recently have seen a set of EVO 6 wheels cracking, the week after powdercoating, something that never happens with a standard EVO 6 wheel.

The Subzero's on the original post, were used on a 500bhp civic, for 3 years, without incident (originally gold, there are plenty of videos on youtube of the civic with the gold subzeros)
He had them powdercoated black, the first time out on them, the wheels flexed, caught the caliper and the pictures are the result.

There is a big story on the internet, where someone powdercoated a diving tank it exploded whilst being filled, and killed someone.

I definatly wouldnt recommend it, nor would any of the other wheel manufactors that I know of, in fact most if not all state that warranty is invalid if powdercoated.