I believe this was the original question, on all the 3 pages of "replica" insults people throw at those buying them, only 2 people have dealt with the company he is asking about and both spoke positively of them.

Some people took this post and simply brag about how much money they like to waste on "porsche tax" because it gives them peace of mind from spending 6 grand on wheels on a car they drive to their dentists office on saturdays. If you want to change to look of your car for a modest price, go ahead and buy replica's, it's your car after all isnt it? And these "experts" here probably wont be able to tell the difference when looking anyway. Though they will pray your wheels break so they can put their 6k hre's even higher on a pedestal.

 

I am not one of those people but I would not buy any replica wheels as you simply cannot be sure if they will not fall apart while you drive on them as no one takes any responsibility for rims quality control.
great rims to buy are OZ allegeritas for an example - $350 or so for wheel. Not expensive and light. Why even to bother with replicas? Really, why for?

 

No, I think you missed the point. These might be good copies or bad copies, who knows? But they are copies and therefore illegal

 

Jon, you're just wrong and it's way too much trouble to write an essay on metallurgy to explain why. Not that you will change your mind, but I hate to see you misleading others. Let's leave aluminum alloy wheels, which require that essay on metallurgy and consider good old steel.

We use steel wheels on trucks. They certainly are lighter than cast iron, but not weaker. They are tougher, in the literal engineering meaning of that term -- which pretty much just puts numbers on the intuitive meaning. That is, they don't break as easily. In fact, it's almost impossible to break a steel wheel, while a cast iron one breaks with only moderate impacts. They are lighter because their design and construction is more sophisticated than cast iron. It may not seem that way because our g-g-g-great grandparents worked out the technology to replace cast iron, but they are more sophisticated.

So if you're serious about not wanting to spend money on a quality aluminum alloy wheel with all the expensive metallurgy and constuction technology that requires, then go buy steel wheels. We amortized all that technology a hundred years ago. You can enjoy cheap and strong. But with aluminumm don't kid yourself. Or rather, do kid yourself if you like, but don't mislead other people and don't expect any sympathy from those of us who understand the technology.

As in most fields, you may not get what you pay for if you're a bad judge of suppliers, but you damn sure won't get what you don't pay for. If you pay crap prices, don't expect anything but crap.

And not to belabor the point, but someone already asked the obvious and I never heard an answer: Why does someone want to take off a set of excellent wheels from Porsche and put on cheaper ones? Because they look purty? Gimme a break.

 

Exactly. +1.

The whole point is that people with pride in their work put their own name on it and take responsibility for the result. Only people knowingly building trash hide it behind the appearance of a successful name brand.

 

Very well said. +1 Rep for you!

 

No, that is YOUR point, which you are heartfelt about, and i understand exactly how you feel. This is not what was asked in the original post. Someone even went as far as saying he has to buy name brand expensive purses for women to like him.... and expensive watches for whatever reason.... everyone got a little off topic here.

This is not a morality based post. He is only asking if anyone has done business with this seller.

 

Again I say, these may be good copies or bad copies, who knows? But that is indeed the issue. Someone (Porsche or their vendor) spent a lot of money engineering the originals to be high performance wheels that perform. The fact that we don't know who made the counterfeits, anything about their factory, metallurgy, quality system, testing standard or ANYTHING is very disturbing. How can anyone recommend the wheels? We're not talking about a Prius here. These cars go 150+MPH. To me, NOT KNOWING is the WHOLE issue.
ADDITIONALLY, I have a real problem that they are copies. It's stealing. Moreover, its deceptive, immoral and potentially dangerous.

I personally know of several World Class Chinese wheel factories. See my previous post. We just don't know who made the wheels in question.
Caveat Emptor

 

1) Placing emphasis of wheel testing as it pertains to safety is not "bragging" .

2)I don't judge OP or anyone else if they want to change the look of their car and /or save money .

3) I don't care if his car is driven "to their dentists office on a saturday" or not.

4) The greatest part of a message board is that one does NOT have to answer the question to suit YOUR satisfaction. You can not control how others respond but you can control how you react to their replies.

I wish both you and the OP the best .

 

i purchased a set of replicas for my previous car to have a second set for track/fun. the wheels i ordered were from a very popular forum vendor and the price was right so i placed my order for a replica of my stock wheels.

when i got them, they looked exactly like my stock wheels but the machining was smoother on my stock wheels and and the stock wheels were noticibly lighter.

went to the tire shop to mount them and 1 wheel would not balance. the manager came and took a look and said that one wheel was out of round. i called the vendor and he said he needed this wheel back before he could send me another.

i was already unhappy with the wheels because i did not anticipate that much weight difference, especially since its was an exact replica of my stockers and occupied the same spacial demensions. like it was made out of lead or something.

long story short, i finally got a wheel that balanced and quickly sold the set. the weight and rough machining along with the 1 bunk wheel was enough to scare me off.

for all that vendors fancy website, i found out through my ordeal with him that he worked out of his house and had a small stock pile at a nearby storage shed. made you feel like you were talking to the company but he was just buying from a cali replica outfit that was getting it from who knows. i was take back a bit with his argumentative nature when i told him the problem with the wheel. the new wheel was shipped from cali and the original from florida where he resided with his storage shack.

if you're looking at a replica of an oe wheel, its just about the same price to get used original oe wheels and peace of mind