Oh the irony
08-19-2015, 12:25 PM
#21
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Originally Posted by Ultra_Nexus' timestamp='1439937415' post='23718680
Better to be ironic than dumb....
Rotas are manufactured to a standard and have quality control. They are good wheels at a good price.
What you don't want is a wheel that claims it's a quality controlled Rota, when it hasn't been cast correctly and not quality controlled.
Then your wheel breaks and you get people slating Rotas when it isn't even a Rota wheel.
And then internet morons jump on it because they are like sheep and can't think for themselves.
Rotas are manufactured to a standard and have quality control. They are good wheels at a good price.
What you don't want is a wheel that claims it's a quality controlled Rota, when it hasn't been cast correctly and not quality controlled.
Then your wheel breaks and you get people slating Rotas when it isn't even a Rota wheel.
And then internet morons jump on it because they are like sheep and can't think for themselves.
How do you know what corners the manufacturer is prepared to cut?
Afterall, they are prepared to cut corners in the design by copying others....
Naive; dumb; moronic?
Chris.
The same can be said about OZ, Volk, Mugen, or anyone else who makes wheels.
But you somehow think that by paying £1000 per wheel nets you some sort of quality guarantee when it doesn't.
As for 'copying' who cares!
Good artists copy and great artists steal.
It's a wheel ATEOTD - how many different designs can you actually get before someone accuses someone else of copying?
Enkei's RP03 looks almost idential to Volks G50
The OZ Sparco Pro Corsa looks identical to the BBS CH-R
And then lets move onto Formula 1 - the pinnacle of cars. They are ALL trying to copy each other and no one cares.
The problem arises when someone puts your name on something you didn't do.
In this case Rota are having their name on wheels they didn't sign off on.
All these TV Chef's give away their recipes for you to copy, but if you opened a Restaurant saying 'Food by Gordon Ramsey' and he isn't cooking it, I think he might have something to say about it.
08-19-2015, 12:39 PM
#23
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Originally Posted by chrisr111' timestamp='1440005736' post='23719589
[quote name='Ultra_Nexus' timestamp='1439937415' post='23718680']
Better to be ironic than dumb....
Rotas are manufactured to a standard and have quality control. They are good wheels at a good price.
What you don't want is a wheel that claims it's a quality controlled Rota, when it hasn't been cast correctly and not quality controlled.
Then your wheel breaks and you get people slating Rotas when it isn't even a Rota wheel.
And then internet morons jump on it because they are like sheep and can't think for themselves.
Better to be ironic than dumb....
Rotas are manufactured to a standard and have quality control. They are good wheels at a good price.
What you don't want is a wheel that claims it's a quality controlled Rota, when it hasn't been cast correctly and not quality controlled.
Then your wheel breaks and you get people slating Rotas when it isn't even a Rota wheel.
And then internet morons jump on it because they are like sheep and can't think for themselves.
How do you know what corners the manufacturer is prepared to cut?
Afterall, they are prepared to cut corners in the design by copying others....
Naive; dumb; moronic?
Chris.
The same can be said about OZ, Volk, Mugen, or anyone else who makes wheels.
But you somehow think that by paying £1000 per wheel nets you some sort of quality guarantee when it doesn't.
As for 'copying' who cares!
Good artists copy and great artists steal.
It's a wheel ATEOTD - how many different designs can you actually get before someone accuses someone else of copying?
Enkei's RP03 looks almost idential to Volks G50
The OZ Sparco Pro Corsa looks identical to the BBS CH-R
And then lets move onto Formula 1 - the pinnacle of cars. They are ALL trying to copy each other and no one cares.
The problem arises when someone puts your name on something you didn't do.
In this case Rota are having their name on wheels they didn't sign off on.
All these TV Chef's give away their recipes for you to copy, but if you opened a Restaurant saying 'Food by Gordon Ramsey' and he isn't cooking it, I think he might have something to say about it.
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Funny you should mention F1, 'the pinnacle of cars' - I don't see any of them using Rota wheels, but I have seen Rays, BBS and Enkei.....
and for the record I never mentioned anything about money or any other brand, until now.
Chris.
08-19-2015, 12:42 PM
#24
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08-19-2015, 01:35 PM
#25
They may cut corners here and there but so does every other company in the world some way or another.
The fact of the matter is that someone is making wheels and sticking Rota's name on them, making them look as if they are Rotas and they aren't.
Rota are just making you aware of that fact.
The fact of the matter is that someone is making wheels and sticking Rota's name on them, making them look as if they are Rotas and they aren't.
Rota are just making you aware of that fact.
08-19-2015, 03:12 PM
#28
I'd have TD Pro Race 1.2 for mine if they made an offset that fit.
But then that assumes that any of this makes an appreciable difference to any of us when only one person here is a racing driver and even then. it's wheel weight along with a load of other variables.
Do they look good, do they fit, are they light. will they make my car handle better, are they better than OEM - listed in order of forum owner interest.
But then that assumes that any of this makes an appreciable difference to any of us when only one person here is a racing driver and even then. it's wheel weight along with a load of other variables.
Do they look good, do they fit, are they light. will they make my car handle better, are they better than OEM - listed in order of forum owner interest.
08-20-2015, 04:45 AM
#29
Registered User
But a road car isn't an F1 car. So if we were to assume that Rays F1 engineering goes into their road wheels, they'd only last 500 miles before they had to be recycled?
I drove my S2000 extremely hard. It had Rotas on it. The Rotas are still round and in one piece. Beyond that, I couldn't really care. If a company is selling a non quality controlled wheel, then it becomes dangerous. And if they are masking as Rota, it's deformation.
The only way a Rota is dangerous is if you have an ego and someone mistakes your Rays wheel for a Rota.
This would then force the reply of 'No, actually, Rota's are a copy of these wheels' to which the person asking the question doesn't care
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