ZLover4Life

www.fakewheels.com

Dedicated to differentiating between quality brand-name original wheels and their shitty knock-offs. Check it out.

280zx2by2

i like it added to favs

Bleach

I like fake wheels.

SloppyGoat

Me too. As long as they're reasonably balanced and safe, what difference does it make?

KasbeKZ

weight.

and fake wheels may charge more than they are worth because they look like a better wheel.

but other than that, i agree. i'd take the rota knock off of a panasport.

280zx2by2

me gusto rb's better than panas

KasbeKZ

wow. yeah i take preference between two things that look exactly the same too! we're like brothers!

280zx2by2

i see a difference (besides color)


but it dosent help my case that the rb's are on a miata..

Bleach

Pana's can't beat the 17x9.5 Rota wheels

KasbeKZ

yeah the polished lip is nice.

ZLover4Life

What's the difference? Quality...







Cheaper wheel means cheaper material and cheaper manufacturing process (like cast instead of forged).

280zx2by2

those are the older gayer rotas, they dont even touch the 2009 series...




but wait they still sale those same wheels... btw lolz

mayitin

Man that can cost you your life and if you live... what kind of life will you have?... what is the saying? you get what you pay for? I try to explain that to my son he got the message when he saw what happend to his friend. we all want to save money but they are some things like wheels that is just not worth it. Just look at your car is it not a miracle that it runs with all those moving parts in perfect timing?

Bleach

Pointless pics

ZLover4Life

*yawn*

hoov100

does it count if the knock off's are stronger and cheaper the original?

Bleach

No, because your rich friends will still laugh at you for not having everything "name brand"

snwbrderphat540

on your buddy's site, he didnt seem to mind the rota brand from the little he wrote about them.

rtmorgan

lol thats my professors buddy car lol

snwbrderphat540

are you sure? and if so, whats the deal?

ZLover4Life

Show me a knock-off that is actually better than the original. As I said, they are cheaper because they are made with weaker metals and/or a different process like cast instead of forged. Most of the high-end wheels are forged while most of the cheap ones are cast, and you'd be hard pressed to find a cast wheel that is stronger than its forged counterpart.

Heat Rave R

I think it would be helpful to know the context of those broken wheel pics. I'm skeptical these guys were just commuting to work and then suddenly the wheel breaks in half. If you're doing some racing, or are the type of driver that doesn't slow down for speedbumps and has to toss it into every corner, then yeah, you ought to consider the higher quality wheel. But I'm betting the majority of us don't drive so aggressively (certainly not on a regular basis) that we'd ever stress even a cheap wheel to its breaking point.

KasbeKZ

i drive pretty lightly too, but i surely wouldn't want a wheel that was likely to break for the reason of accident avoidance.

ZLover4Life

I'm pretty sure all three of those were during track events. But what good is modding a sports car for performance if you can't take it to the track? "Form follows function" and "if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right" come to mind.

duowing

I look at those pictures and think: Because the real brands can never ever break, right? </sarcasm>

I can understand what you're saying about doing it right, but even with a sports/performance car if someone is doing autocross once in a while or occasionally takes it to the track the wheels will probably never get stressed to that point. Or it will take a long time. Everything breaks anyway so what's to say that this will never happen to the actual brand named ones anyway. Every so often as with everything there are manufacturing defects that end up on the market.