I'm jus wondering if anyone is tuning this type of wheel.. If u have pics... It'd be a great help.

 

 

Thats real cute. Here is an OEM S2000 wheel cracking the exact same way. Hate all you want how are we not supposed to know the car's wheel in that pic wasnt crappily powder coated like this OEM wheel thus weakening its metal?



I have run Rota Grids on my last can and they were tracked HARD by the previous owner. Great wheels. I loved them. And i'd buy them again.

 

Any wheel wheel break if u slam into a curb at 90mph.

 

I know... No matter what, Brand name or not... U drive wrecklessly.. U will crack em... But Anyways.. If any one running that wheel set up, pics woulD be great... I just want to know and see if it looks good..

 

He does this $hit everytime someone mentions Rota Wheels

 

my rpf1 broke last time i hit a curb doing 30.

 

Actually, the reputation for building wheels that crack is founded upon a production run of wheels that did indeed crack under normal driving conditions- not slamming into curbs, etc.

Back in '03, the first gen of the Rota Attack was produced with a cavity behind the spokes, ostensibly to further reduce weight. The start of the cavity can be seen in this pic, and the end result as well.



This crack happened to many of the 1st gen Attack owners, and Rota issued a recall to upgrade owners to the revised version without a cavity, to enhance strength.

No company is perfect, and to their credit they replaced all of these defective wheels, so it's good to see them stand behind their product.

This was a long time ago, and I'm sure their QA methods have improved since this incident, but I'm unaware of any similar incidents involving top tier wheel manufacturers such as Volk or BBS.

It's not fair to attack Rota (pun intended ) every time someone mentions buying them, but there seems to be even more people who defend them and say that Rota has never made a defective wheel, and try to blame pics of failures as the result of abuse. The company ADMITTED it made a bad run of wheels....

 

i know where to find info bout offsets and all and ive read them.. i jus want a visual of how 17x7.5 +35 would look... doesnt matter if its rotas or not... i jus mentioned the GRIDS cuz i like the way they look especially when they are concaved... but any ways... im still tryin to decide if x7.5 width is good enough.. either i have to go wider with HIGH offset or semi wide rims with low offset... jus to have that OH-SO FLUSHED look..

 

You can get that God-awful "OH-SO FLUSHED" look with wider wheels with higher offsets. 9" +54 = exact same "flushness" and potential concavity as 7.5" +35.

Nothing looks worse (IMO) than skinny-ish wheels with uber-low offsets