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Old 09-20-2012, 05:08 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by ASSALBERT View Post
yea, i already know there are many teams out there that run rotas on their race cars. In my last post i was simply trying to convey that replica wheels have more catastrophic failures due to lack of QC or structural integrity compared to that of authentic wheels. The most you will usually see when a "brand name" wheel breaks is that a spoke or two have cracked, instead of the whole face of the wheel being torn off.
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Yes we know that even real, high quality wheels can fail and that's fact. Any wheel can fail really. The issue here which fails more often? Imitators or innovators?
not disagreeing with you guys, but I just want to mention that the number of failures will be skewed if there are more people running reps over the real thing...

it is something that's hard to pin down without cold hard statistics.

anecdotes and hearsay really don't help anyone's case.
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