View Poll Results: What do you think of ROTA wheels?
They are great and good value for your hard earned dollar! Would rock them!
350
79.91%
They are bootlegs/knock offs with poor quality! Would not rock them!
88
20.09%
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ROTA wheels and your thoughts on them?
I voted for Rota. I run the P45R's on my 240sx which I daily drive and abuse everyday and never had an issue of them bending or cracking. The price is affordable and they look good. On the other hand, I have Volks on my Evo which basically stays in the garage.
Unfortunately this quote seems to be the mindset for a lot of Rota owners; people who did pay for a name brand wheel are overpaying.
With a set of say Volk TE-37s, you are getting a wheel of known high quality that can be daily driven and driven in competitve environments (Auto-X, whatever).
With Rotas Grids, you'll get a wheel that will survive daily use, but may or may not be ideally suited for competitive or very spirited driving.
That's what you're paying for: piece of mind in that your wheel can be used and survive on the street and track.
With a set of say Volk TE-37s, you are getting a wheel of known high quality that can be daily driven and driven in competitve environments (Auto-X, whatever).
With Rotas Grids, you'll get a wheel that will survive daily use, but may or may not be ideally suited for competitive or very spirited driving.
That's what you're paying for: piece of mind in that your wheel can be used and survive on the street and track.
1. if you read the whole thing, i stated i was speaking from a purely ASTHETICS point of view.. i whole heartedly know that volks are far superior wheels in both strength and weight.. i would never tell someone whos rocking a set of volks that they overpaid, unless they paid more than those wheels were worth.. for me, it just isnt practical to have volks, not to say i cant afford them.
2. in the sense of "you get what you pay for"... or "thats what your paying for" ... for volks, your paying more for the forged wheels, lighter and stronger. but thats not saying that rotas are weak, heavy, and crap! they just arent as GOOD of quality as volk.. rotas are and have been used by many auto-x and road race/time attack cars for years! with great sucess! they are plenty strong enough and long lasting for anything volks can handle!
You're basing you wheel choice off of a motivational poster with 1 broken Rota? Seems logical to me......
....one broken wheel doesn't exactly denote poor quality from the manufacturer.
Rota's are affordable, look good and have a fairly large selection to choose from. I rock them, if somebody doesn't like them.....well, so be it.
....one broken wheel doesn't exactly denote poor quality from the manufacturer. Rota's are affordable, look good and have a fairly large selection to choose from. I rock them, if somebody doesn't like them.....well, so be it.
Also, not exactly... I have seen/had a total of 4 Rota wheels break/fail, on three different vehciles, and three different wheel models, ranging from launches on a track, street, and one curb smash.
As a consumer, I am not impressed with the quality Rota has to offer, personally. Perhaps all it would take from Rota is a little more in the quality control department to help their image with customers, such as me, that have had misfortune with their products.
There are just some areas that I feel nervous with cutting corners. Wheels, chassis parts, bearings, and a few others. If it is a component in a system that ensures safety, it does not deserve to be short changed. Another personal example: 2003 Ford Ranger cruisin down the highway at 85mph. Instant wheel bearing failure/lockup. Bearing: NTP - econobrand sold at some auto parts stores.
Similar things have happened with "lower end" chassis parts. It was sh***y enough in a Ranger at 85, it would be a different story in an Evo flirting with 150.
Point: There are just some things I would not cut corners on. I gave Rota a shot, and was overall not impressed.
2 things....
1. if you read the whole thing, i stated i was speaking from a purely ASTHETICS point of view.. i whole heartedly know that volks are far superior wheels in both strength and weight.. i would never tell someone whos rocking a set of volks that they overpaid, unless they paid more than those wheels were worth.. for me, it just isnt practical to have volks, not to say i cant afford them.
2. in the sense of "you get what you pay for"... or "thats what your paying for" ... for volks, your paying more for the forged wheels, lighter and stronger. but thats not saying that rotas are weak, heavy, and crap! they just arent as GOOD of quality as volk.. rotas are and have been used by many auto-x and road race/time attack cars for years! with great sucess! they are plenty strong enough and long lasting for anything volks can handle!
1. if you read the whole thing, i stated i was speaking from a purely ASTHETICS point of view.. i whole heartedly know that volks are far superior wheels in both strength and weight.. i would never tell someone whos rocking a set of volks that they overpaid, unless they paid more than those wheels were worth.. for me, it just isnt practical to have volks, not to say i cant afford them.
2. in the sense of "you get what you pay for"... or "thats what your paying for" ... for volks, your paying more for the forged wheels, lighter and stronger. but thats not saying that rotas are weak, heavy, and crap! they just arent as GOOD of quality as volk.. rotas are and have been used by many auto-x and road race/time attack cars for years! with great sucess! they are plenty strong enough and long lasting for anything volks can handle!
I did read your entire post and did see you limiting the comparison to just aesthetics.
I just don't like how some would sacrifice on quality on something as important as wheels and buy a product of lower quality to save some money. Especially when Evo's are cars that can be pushed to such extremes and most fun when driven spiritedly.
As I've said in my previous post and another post here on evom about Rotas, they appear to be quality enough to handle daily driving tasks and light track duty. Never said they were garbage; just not as good as Volk.
Heck if there were inherent weaknesses in Rotas, you can bet every forum from NAISOC, iwsti, evom, etc. would be posting it up.
Start by saying i dont have Rotas but i would absolutely "rock" them. I dont care about weight or name brands i just want what i like and they make good looking wheels at a price thats much more affordable. Any wheel can have a defect even volks which some of you guys make sound like jesus forged himself. Id love to have Volks and if i could even scrape by and get a set but why when a USED set of volks costs more than 2 sets of brand new rotas.
I dunno...
I always wanted a set of advan rs for my car but when I saw the price tag landed to Trinidad for the wheels alone ($3700) I actually started putting my views on the rota G-forces...
That said I did a lot of forum browsing regarding em and through the bandwagonists that swear by em and the bandwagonists that call em crap you do tend to see some fair points that help make decisions on it: For me the one of thoe posts was that GTR guy running the Grids...
When the spokes cracked on him is when I started to turn away from Rota... they are nice wheels for the money, but my thing here is that he was tracking a heavy car with these wheels for I think 6 months (correct me if I'm wrong) and they cracked. Yes your street car won't probably be put through as hard a run as that guy but we all do put our cars through paces over the course of owning them and my whole thing is, if under abuse 6 months was a fracture point, does it then mean that over the course of a couple years of throwing the car around and hitting some potholes from time to time may eventually cause a spoke to go?
It's that uncertainty of if and when it would happen that I became a bit sceptical of the brand.
Of course, that's just my opinion.
I always wanted a set of advan rs for my car but when I saw the price tag landed to Trinidad for the wheels alone ($3700) I actually started putting my views on the rota G-forces...
That said I did a lot of forum browsing regarding em and through the bandwagonists that swear by em and the bandwagonists that call em crap you do tend to see some fair points that help make decisions on it: For me the one of thoe posts was that GTR guy running the Grids...
When the spokes cracked on him is when I started to turn away from Rota... they are nice wheels for the money, but my thing here is that he was tracking a heavy car with these wheels for I think 6 months (correct me if I'm wrong) and they cracked. Yes your street car won't probably be put through as hard a run as that guy but we all do put our cars through paces over the course of owning them and my whole thing is, if under abuse 6 months was a fracture point, does it then mean that over the course of a couple years of throwing the car around and hitting some potholes from time to time may eventually cause a spoke to go?
It's that uncertainty of if and when it would happen that I became a bit sceptical of the brand.
Of course, that's just my opinion.
Last edited by MISHI; Apr 7, 2011 at 05:18 PM.
I would love another set of rotas, It's not in the budget for real wheels right now, unless I find them used. I've owned 2 sets in the last year and they weren't bad wheels.
That being said I wouldn't track them, but I wouldn't track any big heavy 18x9.5 wheels, even if they were forged and invincible.
That being said I wouldn't track them, but I wouldn't track any big heavy 18x9.5 wheels, even if they were forged and invincible.
To update this thread, I ended up going with a set of VOLK CE28N Limited Edition in TI Gunmetal. The reason being I could not justify paying almost $3000 (yes we pay a lot more in Canada although our dollar is higher!), for a set of non forged Advan RS rims that were average weight. I thought long and hard and figured it was worth the money to invest in a good quality proven rim that was original in design and forged.
Although I don't have any real issues with Rotas other than the fact they are indeed knock offs of original designs companies work hard to create. I understand they are trying to appeal to a market, which can not justify paying the high price tag of an authentic rim, but want something that is reliable and quality.
The main reasons I ended up going with the VOLKS were the following, most of which were the best points I ran across in the thread.
1. The VOLKS are a true original design and weigh 16lbs a piece and are made of quality materials and are forged. Although I know rota makes a quality wheel now, there is no way their manufacturing process is as deep as the likes of VOLK which has been proven over time.
2. I waited like many people said in the thread. Finally found a good deal and went with it. Yes I still paid much more than a set of rotas, but it wasn't an insane amount more due to my patience.
3. The resale value of any wheel like VOLK, Advan, BBS, etc. is very high and you can easily sell your rims if you are looking for a change as people are always looking for the real deal wheels. Often people will ditch their rotas in a heart beat for well priced authentics.
4. Companies work hard to create original designs and the more we support replicas (no matter how good they are), we are hurting the manufacturers and eventually will drive them out of business. I work in the video game industry and I know when people bootleg and pirate games it hurts us and cuts into our salary and bonus money so I equated it to what rota is doing.
5. I have no problem with rota as mentioned previously and would probably buy a set for the winter, if I didn't have MR BBS rims already. I do believe they should come up with original designs however if they want to be taken seriously in a market of many other affordable wheels, which don't rip off designs like Enkei, SSR, 5zigen, etc.
Again this thread helped me with my opinion and making a decision on my set of wheels and I thank everyone who contributed!
Now it's time to get these bad boys on my EVO!
Although I don't have any real issues with Rotas other than the fact they are indeed knock offs of original designs companies work hard to create. I understand they are trying to appeal to a market, which can not justify paying the high price tag of an authentic rim, but want something that is reliable and quality.
The main reasons I ended up going with the VOLKS were the following, most of which were the best points I ran across in the thread.
1. The VOLKS are a true original design and weigh 16lbs a piece and are made of quality materials and are forged. Although I know rota makes a quality wheel now, there is no way their manufacturing process is as deep as the likes of VOLK which has been proven over time.
2. I waited like many people said in the thread. Finally found a good deal and went with it. Yes I still paid much more than a set of rotas, but it wasn't an insane amount more due to my patience.
3. The resale value of any wheel like VOLK, Advan, BBS, etc. is very high and you can easily sell your rims if you are looking for a change as people are always looking for the real deal wheels. Often people will ditch their rotas in a heart beat for well priced authentics.
4. Companies work hard to create original designs and the more we support replicas (no matter how good they are), we are hurting the manufacturers and eventually will drive them out of business. I work in the video game industry and I know when people bootleg and pirate games it hurts us and cuts into our salary and bonus money so I equated it to what rota is doing.
5. I have no problem with rota as mentioned previously and would probably buy a set for the winter, if I didn't have MR BBS rims already. I do believe they should come up with original designs however if they want to be taken seriously in a market of many other affordable wheels, which don't rip off designs like Enkei, SSR, 5zigen, etc.
Again this thread helped me with my opinion and making a decision on my set of wheels and I thank everyone who contributed!
Now it's time to get these bad boys on my EVO!
One question though:
I mean everyone has a story about a Rota model breaking... of couse the documented ones were slipstreams, subzeros (correct me if I'm wrong) and with the GTR... the grids.
But has anyone ever documented a G-Force cracking/ damage?
I mean everyone has a story about a Rota model breaking... of couse the documented ones were slipstreams, subzeros (correct me if I'm wrong) and with the GTR... the grids.
But has anyone ever documented a G-Force cracking/ damage?
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Nevr heard of Grids cracking.