R31Nismoid Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I couldn't help but wet myself with laughter when a certain good friend sent this link over... http://www.autoindustriya.com/auto-industry-news/rota-wheels-warns-against-counterfeit-products.html How quickly people forget what their own line-up is made of? Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewT85 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 yeah i noticed a post on a facebook page thats a distributor for rota... i guess its mainly cause theyve put "rota" on them... but yes i laughed a bit Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6970990 Share on other sites More sharing options...
34GeeTeeTee Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 2 Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(OO)SKYLINE(OO) Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I couldn't help but wet myself with laughter when a certain good friend sent this link over... http://www.autoindustriya.com/auto-industry-news/rota-wheels-warns-against-counterfeit-products.html How quickly people forget what their own line-up is made of? Oh yes, the irony! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTR-N1 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Moral:- Offense = Best Form of Defence Lol Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 FAR KEN LOL! How does that article refrain from taking the piss!?! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseekool Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 (edited) Though ROTAs a copies of other people's designs, I'd be under the assumption they are safer than the Chinese/Malaysian copies, especially since the ROTAs meet the JWL standard. Edit: they also manufacture for OEM too.. Just found that out. Edited August 15, 2013 by iseekool Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
niZmO_Man Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 ^ That. One can argue that "there are so many ways to design a #-spoke wheel", but that doesn't mean you can copy them. Isn't the P45 a copy of the Bee*R B5, which is a copy of Nismo LMGT4? Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTR-N1 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 JLM informed me of 2 failed/fractured ROTAs this year alone. So now I'm thinking, "Were they ROTA copies?" Or is that what ROTA would like me to believe? Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
34GeeTeeTee Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 JLM informed me of 2 failed/fractured ROTAs this year alone. So now I'm thinking, "Were they ROTA copies?" Or is that what ROTA would like me to believe? That is concerning! I considered a set of these for track at one stage BUT this is a good reason to steer clear! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seano350GT Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 have seen this getting shared around facebook by a whole bunch of people. what a laugh, surely they're taking the piss. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6971452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline_GTR Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I know people who just call their wheels "copies of such and such" rather than saying Rota this and that. Grids would be a good example. Either way better than the fakes. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6972307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy1600 Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 That is concerning! I considered a set of these for track at one stage BUT this is a good reason to steer clear! It looks as though that rim has taken a massive hit. Look at the "gutter rash" on the front of it (it's not so much rash but blunt force trauma). That's a big hit and it looks like the force was perpendicular to the rim. I doubt any rim would be able to withstand what that wheels appears to have taken. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6972573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertz Donut Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 Some people's immediate reaction will be "wow, I better make sure I get genuine Rotas, not fakes" so they'll look very carefully at any wheels carrying the name. People will start advertising "genuine Rotas, not cheap fakes" and prices may even start to rise a little. Rotas become valued for not being fakes and Rota raise the new price to capitalise on the brand value even though they don't cost them any extra to produce. Well played Rota, well played... Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6972728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4a0s Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Some people's immediate reaction will be "wow, I better make sure I get genuine Rotas, not fakes" so they'll look very carefully at any wheels carrying the name. People will start advertising "genuine Rotas, not cheap fakes" and prices may even start to rise a little. Rotas become valued for not being fakes and Rota raise the new price to capitalise on the brand value even though they don't cost them any extra to produce. Well played Rota, well played... genuine Rotas... thats an oxymoron rite? might as well say genuine fakes... LOL Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6976095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTR-N1 Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 Whilst touring in Ephesus, I struck this... One Aussie in our touring party bought 10, trying to find one that worked as well as looked good > fancied himself as a ladies' man. He bought 10 more in Pisa lol. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6976582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xntrq Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Not a ROTA owner but I guess these guys are coming from a quality point of view. Yes there are plenty of the few photos floating around the net of cracked ROTAs, though they meet standards (whichever they are) but given the wheel design, people have higher expectations from them and use them out of their designed purpose. Working in at a auto dismantler (disclaimer: not related to my wrecks, completely separate things), people tend to bash the shit out of ROTA while the genuine wheels by Subaru, Nissan, toyota, almost every make, have shattered to the point even I wonder how it happened. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6983494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayuri Krab Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 (edited) The glorious People's Republic strikes again! Nothing is safe from not being copied... Edited August 22, 2013 by Mayuri Krab Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6984146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
niZmO_Man Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 lol Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6990667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redline_GTR Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 Wow ... Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/430275-the-irony-that-is-copiedfake-wheels/#findComment-6990834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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