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2012-06-02 22:26:43
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Whats your debate on Rota wheels?
Came across this on Another forum. It is long but an interesting "argument"
** I take no credit for the link below** just seen it and thought it would be an interesting topic for us.

Question on Durability of ROTA Wheels? | CustomPinoyRides.com - Pinoy Pride In Our Rides!

Me personally. I'd love me a set of ssr's, or work meisters. But you get what you can within your budget range.

Although not ROTA's, The drag dr20's I had, the polished layer on the black paint started peeling within a month or so. Sucks. Pretty sure it was do to my wheel cleaner. Did they crack? Yes, when the wifey slid into a freshly made curb, In our last snow storm.

2012-06-03 14:40:20
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Working for an aerospace company, and machining forged wheels daily I will give you my $.02.

Cast wheels have been around forever! Early days all wheels were cast, either steel or aluminum. Now a days, this is still the same case as most OEM wheels are cast. I agree that a forged wheel is stronger, but it also has its limits.

In the aerospace world, as well as on the streets wheels are a wear item, forged or cast. Airlines only get xxx amount of landings on forged wheels before they are scrapped. They are wear items. We actually recalled a lot of wheels due to a bad design which led to them cracking. Yes forged wheels cracking.

I can not stress enough that wheels are wear items, and should be replaced as so from time to time. I rock Rota wheels on my Subie, and am on our 3 set. No reason to buy high dollar wheels to please a bunch of tough guys online with my "legit" wheels while most of those tough guys hard park their forged wheels!

Want a good read from a Skyline site where they Xrayed a set of Rota's?

ROTA testing / quality - Skyline Owners Forum
2012-06-03 16:56:52
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Ugggg, not this again............:smh:
2012-06-03 19:33:59
#4
I'm approaching 10 years and 100k miles on my Rota Circuit 8's. I am very careful with them and I don't think a single one even has curb rash. I only get tires with rim protection. I've had two track sessions with them (road course). I will probably get some Kosei's strictly for road course work in the near future, and keep the rotas for DD. FWIW, it looks like the wheel in the first post had quite a nasty run-in with a curb.
2012-06-03 22:50:56
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^^^ if you look closely, you can see the snow on the ground, I was running my Dunlop direzza V rated tires which are no means for anything but dry roads. Do to not having steelies or snow tires, that's the result. my fault 100% I didn't even get bothered when the wifey called me to tell me.

@boostlee. Sorry if the topic annoys you, just figured it had good facts behind the rota "beef" you know. Reading the other 2 comments are "good to know facts" for those debating of buying rota's or not do to that debate. Figured it was a link with "good to know facts"

Lol. Hope I'm not on you "poop list" for starting this thread "again". Lol just kidding
Last edited by Echo2zz on 2012-06-03 at 22-56-31.
2012-06-04 05:49:47
#6
Sheesh, you should be glad that's all that happened from running summer tires in the snow!

Edit: And it sounds like you are...
2012-06-04 09:35:57
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^^^ we didn't have much of a winter this past winter and also, I really didn't drive the car much do to driving my b13 more often. It happened to be that my b13 at that moment was getting a new clutch installed.
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