Beware of Fake Rotas. LOL

[MommysLittleMonster]

So many big wheel Company's make Copies of each other and nobody cares. Yet one some smaller company comes along Boom look at the Reps. I find it kinda funny.

Work Meister


SSR Professors

The difference being, neither company you just mentioned is made in the Philippines with cheap materials. They're both well-made wheels that aren't just ripping off a design and making it poorly.

[benz88]

The difference being, neither company you just mentioned is made in the Philippines with cheap materials. They're both well-made wheels that aren't just ripping off a design and making it poorly.

eh, Thats your opinion. Lots of people Track Rota's and XXR's just fine without issue.

[Rob&co]

Enjoy!


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[Oh Damn, it's Sam]

I love the random pauses the computer voice comes up with.

"But you look more stupid with fake... ass-wheels"

[HKSpeed]

So many big wheel Company's make Copies of each other and nobody cares. Yet one some smaller company comes along Boom look at the Reps. I find it kinda funny.

Work Meister


SSR Professors

I think they're different enough. There's only so much you can differentiate with a 5-spoke 3-piece step-lip design. Same applies to 3-piece step-lip mesh designs. I like SSR SP1s more because the spokes are more flat/square (Meisters are more curved/round) and they extend over the bolt holes. I like the Meister's protruding (BBS style?) bolts more than the SP1 allen style bolts.

[MommysLittleMonster]

eh, Thats your opinion. Lots of people Track Rota's and XXR's just fine without issue.

False.

What I stated was fact. Just because some people "track" their cars with cheap, knockoff wheels, does not make them just as good as the real-deal.

I'm not getting into another argument about replica wheels vs. real wheels. If you stick up for replicas, then you're one of those people who doesn't do their homework.

[Average_Jerk]

eh, Thats your opinion. Lots of people Track Rota's and XXR's just fine without issue.

5million Subie owners cant be wrong.

[HighwayStarKG]

5million Subie owners cant be wrong.

ROTA (Replica Of The Authentic) warning buyers not to buy replicas of replicas.... Sounds like "Wheelception" to me.

[benz88]

False.

What I stated was fact. Just because some people "track" their cars with cheap, knockoff wheels, does not make them just as good as the real-deal.

I'm not getting into another argument about replica wheels vs. real wheels. If you stick up for replicas, then you're one of those people who doesn't do their homework.

I never Said they were just As good. I'm just saying its funny how people can crap talk a smaller company for making reps then suck a bigger companies ding a ling for making the same rep .

5million Subie owners cant be wrong.

haha touche.

[Ollie]

False.

What I stated was fact. Just because some people "track" their cars with cheap, knockoff wheels, does not make them just as good as the real-deal.

I'm not getting into another argument about replica wheels vs. real wheels. If you stick up for replicas, then you're one of those people who doesn't do their homework.

Oh god. I gotta respond to this shit.

That's some interesting homework because tens of thousands of people track Rotas all the time. Sure, Rota had QC issues many years back, hence the pictures that float around the web, just as HRE, Fikse, SSR and many other brand names did. Off hand I know Rota is certified in JWL (Japanese testing standard), VIA (independent JWL testing organization) and TUV (German testing standard and independent). Do you realize how many aftermarket wheels in the US are not independently tested because there are no performance standards to meet like in Germany and Japan and are gravity cast? And you bitch about Rotas, a mass producer of OEM wheels. Also the point of forged wheels are to make wheels lighter, not necessarily stronger. Forging just allows the designer to use less material. This is why Rota wheels often look blatanly different and/or have much thicker spokes than their original, forged counterparts. Forged wheels use forged centers and flow formed barrels. WORK uses low pressure CAST centers just as Rota now uses low pressure cast. Do you know how many super cars and $100k+ cars come from the factory on cast wheels? Few cars even benefit much from a forged wheel. Why pay Volk money for the poor specs they offer at their retail prices when it doesn't even offer much of a benefit, especially for a street car? I blame Volk for not offering a low pressure cast and flow formed TE37, as one example, as a more practical wheel for consumers who don't need to shave that extra few pounds. Forging is a very wasteful and therefore expensive process that just doesn't really offer the value to most consumers relative to the increased cost. So here's Rota filling that market need by passing savings directly to consumers. More value for the money for most consumers, simple ecomomics. Fuck, even Porsche doesn't think forging is worth it for their GT3. And at least Rota is open about the fact that they take inspiration from other manufacturers and their goal of offering sought after designs at a greater value to the average consumer.


I ain't going out and buying Rotas. It's just an objective point of view that doesn't include posting google images of the same broken rotas because I think I'm cool because I have 15 year old 2pc BBS. It's also not coming from a cheap subie owner that thinks Rotas are god because I haven't had any issues.

[MommysLittleMonster]

Ollie, you just defended Rotas.

I'm not sure how I feel about you right now.

[Ollie]

I'm just being real.

[motocaddy]

Rotas, Rotaform, fake Rotas...all the same in that they're cast in the thousands in some Asian country and not likely to cause death or awesomeness.

[Rob&co]

Ollie....


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[Dudermagee]

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