Rep wheel test!

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Beedub

Lifer
 Sutton Coldfield
This was interesting, im sure not every Rep wheel will suffer the same fate but for the use my car see's i would never in a million years consider a replica wheel...... To many unknown quantities. However this pot hole test seems rather extreme given the wheel movement which i would imagine has damaged something else on the test car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=193&v=rL193Q7bOT0
 
A Mercedes doing a test on a Merc rep wheel.. hmm ;) doesn't that on its own tell you something? Many manufacturers including Merc have crappy wheels that crack for no reason, including our lovely Z4s.

Replica wheel doesn't mean much, the CSL design has been copied multiple times and it's fine. It's where you source your reps from that counts, import them from China and you'll be asking for trouble but anything sold in uk with tuv approval etc should more than enough.
 
Ive covered countless thousands of miles on countless sets of rep or aftermarket wheels & had zero issues whatsoever :? the same can be said for OE wheels ive had :wink: pointless test proving little
 
GL to you guys!!

ive seen a rep wheel fail at the track and it wasnt pretty.

For everyone else.... For alittle bit more money you can buy decent flow formed rims from the likes of APEX etc and those wheels go through the similar tests as your O.E wheel, their will be bad ones, their will be ones that bend or buckle when they get hit, but what you dont want is a shatter of the wheel on impact. In my 12 years of driving ive hit 5-8 pot holes that i would class as severe, it doesnt happen often enough for people to be scared which leads to opinions like above.

Just be aware thats all, do research. Is it really worth the risk to save a couple hundred quid??? For some yes, for some no way at all.
 
Zed Five said:
Its all true.

but.. i doubt my 19" 326s would survive that test! :cry:
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Theirs no doubt it was extreme!

how about this one???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJeFB6SRslk
 
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