More fuel for the fire...

[_Tom]

My mates Rota..

 

[Addicted]

Eek, buy cheap buy twice

 

[DaveDreads]

Yikes!!!
What speed was he doing when that happened?
He must have shat himself.

 

[Naith]

was he running stretched tyres?

 

[_Tom]

Yeah stretched but not mental. He was having a bit of sideways fun when it happened. Tyre blew out and this is what he found.

 

[JCC]

Commence real vs fake shitstorm.

 

[Dan519]

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaatently rolled the tyre over and the rim has hit the floor to do that.

 

[chriscummins7]

Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaatently rolled the tyre over and the rim has hit the floor to do that.

+ 1 million.

 

[Ian_182]

Correct,most wheels would behave like that under stress.

 

[Gaz.]

Bet it's a replica Rota, innit.

 

[Christopher]

LOL. Love it.

'But they're just as good as genuine, forged wheels...'

GTFO. Cheap copied sh*te.

 

[Gally]

Si isn't even in yet.

 

[Scrooge]

What Danny said.

 

[_Tom]

Funny how its right along a seem of the wheel. On a worse note. The front is cracked too but that one hit the kerb after the blow out. Bent his rack, snapped his wishbone.

 

[Gaz.]

I didn't even manage to crack my Rega, and that f**ked my suspension up!

 

[geordieracer]

So there was a blowout?

From sideways action, with stretched tires.

My question would be, did the blowout happen first, I would say yes probably.

 

[_Tom]

So there was a blowout?

From sideways action, with stretched tires.

My question would be, did the blowout happen first, I would say yes probably.

Yes, it blew out. He hit the kerb and damaged the front. Its not the fact it had stretched tyres..It wasnt like he was going mad. Rear step out, bang. Oh dear.

 

[geordieracer]

Yeah sorry, was just trying to say, that if the blow out happened first, then the rim hit the ground etc, whilst having some sideways action, I would hardly describe it as a fault of the rim to be looking like that after such an incident.

 

[_Tom]

Thing is, the lip would have been pulled the other way from a blow out. Thats the NS wheel going round a right hand bend.

 

[Waitey]

t**t anything like that and it'll break.

 

[_Tom]

tw*t anything like that and it'll break.

Like what? The back wheel didnt "t**t" anything.

 

[Waitey]

Like what? The back wheel didnt "tw*t" anything.

I'd guess it made contact with the road if the tyre came off? Or is this a hover car, in which case why did he have wheels?

 

[Dan519]

Like what? The back wheel didnt "tw*t" anything.

if it hadn't hit the floor HARD it would just be a crack, and not massively bent out. 100% user error

 

[Silent_Scone]

oopsy. I've seen wheels come off far worse to be fair. The Focus RS wheels are Borbets are they not? They're weak as fook.

Just looks like the result of running silly tread

 

[Christopher]

tw*t anything like that and it'll break.

You mean like when Gaz nerved his Regamaster and it didn't give a single f*ck? It stayed in one piece.

 

[Waitey]

You mean like when Gaz nerved his Regamaster and it didn't give a single f*ck? It stayed in one piece.

I would post a retort but you locked the last thread when I did that.

You crash and bend a wheel then so be it. Having a hard wheel will just break something else. A man hole cover totally goosed one of the magnesium wheels on my old Westfield. Some wheels are just soft.

People buying Rota's et al is fine, the people buying cheap wheels and then moaning when they break are morons. Rota's et al are 100% fine for road use, unless your normal road use includes drifting, jumps, hitting kurbs etc...

 

[Christopher]

Totally agreed. They're total sh*te and should be avoided.

 

[Waitey]

Moaning about cheap wheels = Moaning that your cheap hooker had a ****

99% of the time you'll be fine but the 1% is all you will ever hear about.

 

[Cookie]

Fcuking stretched tyre w*****s

 

[Gaz.]

100% user error

When did drifting become user error? Tyres fail when they're smoked around.

 

[kpowell911]

Stretched tyres + Drifting? Seriously?

 

[Dan519]

When did drifting become user error? Tyres fail when they're smoked around.

not the wheels fault though is it

 

[Adam.]

Served. Hard.

 

[_Tom]

Stretched tyres + Drifting? Seriously?

They were barely stretched and plus most people who drift cars run stretched tyres. The profile on these was quite big.

 

[stephen chadwick]

just found this

http://custompinoyrides.com/2012/03/question-on-durability-of-rota-wheels/

 

[welshname]

just found this

http://custompinoyrides.com/2012/03/question-on-durability-of-rota-wheels/

That's pretty good, although I wouldn't say they "took inspiration" from others designs, I'd say they copied the designs, but they aren't sold as direct copies of other wheels, like they said, it isn't claiming to be something it isn't.

 

[Waitey]

That's pretty good, although I wouldn't say they "took inspiration" from others designs, I'd say they copied the designs, but they aren't sold as direct copies of other wheels, like they said, it isn't claiming to be something it isn't.

What is says though is this happens a lot, only ROTA get picked out for it. They even own the licensing to some of those designs now.

 

[welshname]

What is says though is this happens a lot, only ROTA get picked out for it. They even own the licensing to some of those designs now.

Oh yeah, I'm not disputing it happens a lot, but there is no 2 ways about it, they have seen a design that people like, and reproduced it themselves. It happens in everything, music is the worst for it, so many riffs are just completely ripped off but no one really complains when that happens.

 

[Gaz.]

Ah, well, Phil Morrison says buy them.

He would do, seeing as he sells them.

 

[Turkish]

So cynical Gaz. He's bound to be 100% unbiased, it's not like he stands to lose out financially if he makes any negative comments about them....