YouTube - Dangerous imitation wheel !!


Just gonna leave this hear and see how many cheap skates try to justify themselves and say "yeah but" or "F that" or "I don't care"

 

Here is a video that Weds Wheels made showing the difference between their wheels and an imitation wheel. My feeling, not only are you stealing someone’s engineering design, but you are also putting someone in danger. These Japanese wheels go through a strict certification process to be sold. Usually, imitation wheels do not go though such strict standards. Here is a quick rundown on the type of certification that REAL wheels must go through.

INTERNATIONAL COMPANY CERTIFICATION?
ISO 9001:2000 Certification – International Service Organization (ISO) is a worldwide organization that sets technical standards for testing and quality purposes for various international industries. ISO 9001:2000 is the latest quality management system for businesses. It basically creates a unique structure, development and implementation of a QMS in order to increase the quality of business transactions, quality and customer satisfaction.

JAPANESE?
JWL- Japanese wheels must have a “JWL” logo on the wheel and “JWL” (Japan Light Wheel Alloy) is a compilation of standards defined by the Japanese Government to ensure the vehicle’s safety for aluminum road wheels. Every wheel put to market must be tested to meet JWL standards before a wheel can be put out to market in Japan. These standards are generally accepted worldwide as acceptable for most road conditions. That is why you will see these marks on European and other Asian country wheels.

VIA Certification – Vehicle Inspection Association (VIA) is a third-party group in Japan which can test and verify whether or not any alloy wheels can meet JWL certification standards.

JAWA Certificate Sticker?The JAWA Quality Certificates: Since 1995, JAWA has introduced the “JAWA Quality Certificate” system to protect and develop consumer confidence in wheel safety and quality. The certificate guarantees that all products qualify to the JWL and JWL-T light alloy disc wheel standards approved by Japanese government.

VIA Mark?A third-party entity called the Vehicle Inspection Association verifies whether a product meets the requirements prescribed by the JWL or JWL-T standard. This association permits a product to bear a VIA mark if it passes rigorous quality and strength verification tests conducted in accordance with the JWL or JWL-T standard.

 

sweet

 

cool post. just dont care enough to read it.

 

Same Chinese kid who made the imitation wheels....

Imitation!

strive for perfection my communist friends!!!

 

Like most things, you get what you pay for. Great link.

 

lmao

 

What I'm curious about is how knock off's compare to most stock, from the factory, wheels.

I get that knock offs are no where near the quality as the real deal,
but, I myself have broken plenty of factory wheels hitting curbs and crap like that. Hell, even had one of the chrome 350z wheels crack on me pushing it through a high speed turn. I haven't ever had crazy offset or camber or anything like that. Usually stock alignment. Or close to. I took that turn right at the edge. felt a weird twitch. Got out of the turn, slowed down, felt the wobble. Stopped, looked at the wheel and one of the spokes was cracked. Not all the way through, but still.
I get that there is always the far extreme cases and you should really throw those out, but there are enough people out there that have hit curbs, even at parking lot speeds and destroyed their wheels.

flip side to that is I had some enkei wheels that survived my wreck and they were slammed into a 4 inch stone curb, a fire hydrant, and two complete roll overs and they only need some resurfacing.

 

"you takes a risk" hahahahahaha. good video, this point has been argued back and forth for a long time and ive determend the people that actually care about their cars are the ones who will buy the more expensive wheels period. but if ure joe ricer and ddont know the difference between muffler bearings and blinker fluid, then most likely the knock offs are for u. i personally tend to run oem wheels, cus im too broke most the time and like the stockish look, but to each their own. again good video.

 

Empire - your 350z wheell stemmed from the fact that those wheels were chromed aftermarket and that process actually weakens the internal structure of the wheel. Most stock wheels are much better than knock offs as well because they to go through testing and many times they are actually manufactured at high quality founderies like rays and borbitt etc.