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I never heard of them, but like with products like on Amazon, a new forged wheel company forms daily that just buys from the same Chinese manufacturer with their custom center cap on.
If you like their styles and price, and they are monoblock, it’s a no lose situation really.
I never heard of them, but like with products like on Amazon, a new forged wheel company forms daily that just buys from the same Chinese manufacturer with their custom center cap on.
If you like their styles and price, and they are monoblock, it’s a no lose situation really.
Ain't that the truth. Wait until people realize they can buy forged wheels on AliExpress for pennies on the dollar and they're the same wheels.
Ain't that the truth. Wait until people realize they can buy forged wheels on AliExpress for pennies on the dollar and they're the same wheels.
What’s wild is this company sells OEM reps, but forged monoblock. Lol.
seems wild to me to pay $3400+ for OEM wheels just forged.
Hopefully they are atleast better offsets than stock.
My wheels are probably the Alibaba special really just with some marketing from a community member with his “brand name” on it.
I am ok with it as they were cheap and work as well as any other monoblock wheel
Gem is a vendor on here. See here. Let me know if they are reselling imported cup wheels, I did NOT think so. I wanted to know if anyone has experience with the flow formed cup wheels that rpi designs and west coast Corvette sell, those definitely look to be from the same vendor and are way cheaper, but not forged and they don't have painted barrels
Nor do they care that they are cut at the same manufacturer as far as I know and one is double+ in price than the other.
FWIW, I have a set of relatively inexpensive VR Forged monoblock wheels, from Vivid Racing. They came with a "Made in China" sticker on the box. From what I've found after about 10K miles, the finish & general quality is impeccible.
I got them for an introductory price of $2,600 per set. I believe that they sell them for about $4,000 per set now. No complaints from me.
So if a guy wanted cup wheels without the cracking issues where would you all recommend buying them? I mentioned the black set from RPI/wcc doesn't have finished barrels and I've noticed the aftermarket doesn't put the Corvette engraving in as well. Like the OP I'm considering cup wheels...
So if a guy wanted cup wheels without the cracking issues where would you all recommend buying them? I mentioned the black set from RPI/wcc doesn't have finished barrels and I've noticed the aftermarket doesn't put the Corvette engraving in as well. Like the OP I'm considering cup wheels...
Someone who can show proof that they were on their C6 when new.
Those were forged and high quality. It's when they became C7 wheels that they changed facilities and went to crap.
I believe the switch from Made in Italy to Made in Mexico happened in mid 2012 and therefore 2013 and even some 2012 have Mexico rims. I don't believe any factory cup wheel was ever forged. I bought a set of satin black cups from Bob's house of wheels back around 2015 with c6 center caps and regrettably sold them with my old Z06. I subscribed to the C6 parts forum for at least the past 4 years trying to snag a set. My friend with my old cups has put about 40k hard miles on them without a problem. He was cleaning the barrels this winter and I got quite a kick out of it when he found Mexico on them! My theory is that there are so few Italian cup wheels (less than 1k sets) that we haven't heard many complaints like the much more prevalent c7gs and Z (30k sets?). Tadge if you are out there please let us know haha
