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these alloys. Now obviously these are copies, based on the volk TE37 style.'genuine' factor, but at an additional £1500 who really cares! £1500?(which are good wheels in their own right!). I doubt the copies are anywhere near as light...
.. £1500?!'fakes' if thats all there is..(offset the weight with a bigger turbo!) 
However this often seems to mean if you hit a kerb sideways or whatever, you'll badly bend your alloy as opposed to snapping it. Is that actually a good thing? How much would you even trust a repaired, badly damaged rim... It's only a wheel. Material used, finish and quality control, all far superior. YMMV for normal road use, but some people feel strongly about design copying... That's too sad. 
"normal" road car. I guess it depends how special you want your car to be?Just don't buy a replica and put a volk sticker on it! That's too sad.
+1(dirt cheap) and they're multi drilled. 
Just don't buy a replica and put a volk sticker on it! That's too sad.
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shinny wrote:Wheel lightness isn't the end of the world for a
Just don't buy a replica and put a volk sticker on it! That's too sad.
I think they are Chinese.l1ca wrote:Just don't buy a replica and put a volk sticker on it! That's too sad.
That come with the volk stickers
(That's also a breach of copyright and needs reporting to ebay...)- INOVIT ST16 and bought the car and wheels and tyres for less than £1500.http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/garage.php ... _id=19535.Race Idiot wrote:From the std wheels you do feel a difference with a good set of lightweight ones tho.
However my point is that it won't ruin the car to stick something heavier on... provided you're happy for your car to being at best average in terms of handling and performance, rather than something a bit more special.Race Idiot wrote:I'd rather buy a set of genuine secondhand alloys and pay a bit of money to get them up to scratch than buy knockoff ones.
.. but even secondhand TE37s are not exactly cheap! That is almost certainly a complete lie. First, that's only a standard for wheels for sale IN Japan, and means nothing outside of it. Second, in order to get the standard they have to submit the wheels for testing to Japan - each size and each style. Even Rota don't do that...... I fancy complaining to trading standards actually. You take your life in your hands with cheap imported untested parts IMHO. Just my opinion. The wheels are designed to be light in weight but strong enough to pass stringent quality standards. The wheel spokes, rims and hubs are all designed/engineered to be made from specific materials and use certain manufacturing processes. - I havent heard anything about INOVIT's breaking but plenty about powder coated wheels breaking.... would sell them for Work Miester SP1's with better offset but these came with the car and suit the car.
do have some standards, and I think are becoming a more legit wheel company. They make videos about their wheels and such - they do seem to actually care about the product. Yes, they have blatantly copied Volk TE37s, Advan RGIIs, Desmond Regameisters, Work CR Kais, etc. etc., but they have also modified and played with the designs in some senses. For example, the Grid Drifts, or the GTR-Ds are modified 'classics'. I bought them second hand but virtually new - primarily for the tyres that were mounted to them with the sale.- although it is possible that I was just lucky. Nowadays I always watch the tyre being balanced as I've found over the years when I don't then the tyre fitters will very often cheat and just stick a single weight or two on the inside somewhere for show, lol. In fact the guy who balanced them commented on how well balanced they were. 6.5 to 7kg each which is reasonably light for that alloy size. (or maybe they just felt harsh because I was in the MX5, lol).