Rota Wheels - a warning!

Chaser

New Member
I just want to warn people on Rota wheels.

If you buy Rota wheels it is with my highest recommendation that you do NOT use these with sticky tyres under racing or track or rally circumstances. Normal street use 'might' be fine, but that part is your call.

We did have a set of Rota wheels, and we first noticed when we had the tyres mounts that they chipped easily, and I mean chipped. We then ran them at Lake Mountain hillclimb a few years ago and when I saw the images of the car cornering the one serious thing that caught my eye was wheel defecltion was sever! in other words the wheel was moving on its axis as the car was cornering the wheel was flexing at the bottom and the rim was touching the innder fender at the top.

We removed them and basically gave them away with a warning.

The Rota wheels are made in the Phillipines and the manufacturer, up to a two years ago still didnt have an ISO rating for quality control, this is bad news for a wheel manufacturer, in short, I found they were 'paste', they really were.

Now comes continual stories of guys using rota wheels on their cars in events - rallies, track etc - with catastrophic effect. These wheels were shattering under the load of suspension, and sticky tyres doing their job.

So just a warning to all members.

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this was taken from 4G63evolution.net
 
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and there is soooo many more... lol who cares who would cheap out on rims if they are for a performance application? they deserve to get owned cheap asses
 
*fudge*ing rediculous... glad i went the 20million spoke advanti demon's now... n not racing/drifting wheels :p
 
Good post, I wouldn't know the first thing about buying wheels but at least I now know not to buy Rotas.
 
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