Hi i had a quick question does anyone know if r1 racing wheels are good quality? thanks!

 

No....They suck....If you want a goods wheels they cost....Works, Rays , AME, Jlines are all good wheels...

 

Why?

 

Because they are 1 piece wheels that bend like butter...

 

Have you ever had a set?

 

not everyone can afford RAYS, 1 klean tc...honestly most of those 'high end' whels are disgusting looking anyway

for what its worth, R1, and such other similiarly priced wheels are just fine

 

exactly..not EVERYONE can afford those kind of rims..plus if these wheels ran through a pothole that could have bent the rim, what would happen if these expensive rims ran through the same pothole??? maybe it wouldnt bend as much but it will have damage to it that will cost as much as buying a whole new rim to repair it...

 

For me it is more a safety thing.

What if you went through that pot hole at 65 mph?

 

So what if you went over that pothole with the stock wheels?

 

u mean that wouldnt happen if u were rocking volks?

 

I don't know anything about the R1s, but if the other guy states it bends like "butter" than I rather be on stockies than those.

Maybe they both would bend; but how how badly?

 

i think the only reason why he said those suck and it bends like butter is because he owns the expensive rays,volks,works...
but reality is practical people cant afford those.

 

True.

 

my friend recently bent his volk wheels also!

going over a pothole in brooklyn


alotta of these racing rims are too lightweight, even if the are forged, to withstand a good battering from a street (In NYC at least)

 

I am running the r-1 racing Drifts. They are pretty decent quality rims. They are by no means a set of volks or rays but for the price they arent too bad. I picked a tire with a little more rubber though so I have had no problems

My one complaint is that they are veryy heavy. If you have any plans to be taking the car to the track or anything like that then I would keep looking around

Anyway for the price they arent a bad wheel.

 

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Good wheels don't have to cost a lot. Enkei's are pretty good and the Work Emotion series is pretty affordable.

 

The reason why I said they sucked is because I have had one piece wheels and they didn't withstand potholes...So my experience has been they aren't good wheels=suck!

 

thats a cliche to think that any wheel that isnt jdm wont bend

my friend has HRE's on his s2000 and those bent on a hard pothole in miami, and those are one of the highest quality wheels around.

unless your rolling on schmidt wheels which are pretty much indestructable, your wheel could get f'd up one way or another.

 

Thanks for all the input! do you guys know how much an average set of r1's run for? im thinking about r1 drift

 

or im thinking about enkei evo 5 which one do you guys suggest?