That engraving is on the sidewall plate, not the mold. It probably cost less than $200 machine time if it wasn’t part of the original sidewall plate design. 30 minute cure, 48 tires a day, 5 - 10 year service life = 87k ~ 175k tires out of a single mold.
So that “legit” site name cost is less than 1/5th of one penny per tire. Seems like cheap advertising to me to have your company’s website listed on a car 4 times for one cent. :gotme:
I see everyone in here saying legit forged wheels do it too… well yes but that’s because they slammed into a wall at 100k
Please find me a high end fully forged wheel that does this
Yup.
I’d rather the wheel take the hit than the wheel absorb it and possibly ruin the suspension and cause more damage.
I’d rather buy a new wheel for $250 than $1000. Both can and have broken.
Not this again…
This same type of thread was posted on Roclife last night and it’s already turned into a 3 pager.
(I realize this is an older thread)
I’ve seen real BBS LMs bend and break at track days at watkins glen. Forged wheels can be lighter and stronger, but in turn they just take more weight out and thus make the light but weaker or the same.
are you really saying forged BBS LMs are weak?
weaker than what??
come on i know you are smarter than that
I’m saying that lightness has a price and just because something is forged doesn’t mean it’s necessarily stronger than a heavier cast wheel.
They are wheels made of metal…None of them are completely immune to breaking. Shit happens. For most people, cast is just fine.
The bigger issue of “fake” wheels is the blatant stealing of designs, and trying to pass off something fake, as the real thing.