This is Why You Don't Buy Fake Wheels

**Understanding ESR Wheels: A Deep Dive**

ESR (Enhanced Strength Racing) wheels are considered a top-of-the-line technology in the wheel industry. But what exactly does that mean? According to the content creator, "ki refers to as mat or most advanced technology and all that means is that this is a rotary forged wheel." This implies that the wheel is made using a specific process where the face of the wheel is cast, then gravity-cast onto a rotary forged drum, which draws out the barrel and squishes the metal, creating a tighter grain structure.

This process results in a wheel with characteristics similar to those of a forged wheel but at a relatively lower cost. The content creator notes that ESR doesn't provide any information on how they make these wheels, suggesting that the actual manufacturing process may be proprietary or unknown.

**Testing Real vs Fake Wheels**

In this video, the creators conducted an experiment to compare the strength and quality of real ESR wheels with fake knockoff versions. They dropped an anvil off a roof onto each wheel type to observe how they performed under extreme stress. The results were surprising: while the real ESR wheel showed some deformation but remained intact, the fake wheel shattered upon impact.

The creators then took a closer look at the internal structure of both wheels using microscopic examination. The fake wheel exhibited larger inconsistencies in its metal composition, with big chunks of material and porosity visible. This suggested that the fake wheel's metal was less dense and not properly squished together, making it more prone to failure.

**Conclusion**

The experiment demonstrated a significant difference in quality between real ESR wheels and their knockoff counterparts. While the fake wheel showed signs of weakness, such as larger inconsistencies and porosity, the real ESR wheel held up surprisingly well under extreme stress. This highlights the importance of investing in high-quality products, especially when it comes to critical components like wheels.

**Additional Note**

In an additional test, the creators mounted both types of wheels on a vehicle and ran straight into a curve to see how they would perform under lateral stress. The results showed that the fake wheel shattered once again, while the real ESR wheel remained mostly intact. This further emphasizes the need for reliable, high-quality products in automotive applications.

**Final Thoughts**

The content creator concludes by emphasizing the importance of supporting reputable brands and choosing high-quality products over cheaper alternatives. By doing so, individuals can ensure their safety on the road and minimize the risk of accidents caused by defective or low-quality components.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is a real nkrpf1 race wheel and this is a cheap knockoff and we're gonna Ram them into that curve see the fact of the matter is a lot of car enthusiasts Nolan included by Cheap knockoff parts to save a few bucks but can cheap it out actually cost you your life with a lot of people online say today we're going to find out I'm James he's Zach welcome to Donut hit it Jerry thank you to keeps for sponsoring today's video planet Earth is under attack but I thought we eliminated hair loss on Earth Captain how could something like this just creep up because no one expects the inherited bad G this cannot get any worse oh oh it got worse it got worse this bad Gene is unpreventable don't worry Captain we've got the power of keeps on our side keeps makes hair loss prevention Easy by shipping your hair loss medication directly to your door at about half the cost of a traditional Pharmacy Plus keeps has an award-winning all-natural thickening shampoo and conditioner system everything you need to battle bad genes great work now quick Let's Help the others hair loss stops with keeps to get a special offer go to keeps.com Donut Media or click the link in the description the first thing we're going to be testing today is Ray seeds here we have a brid bios 3 which originally retailed for a thousand dollars and like with any high-end car brand you're gonna have some copycats out there like this 400 ripoff that we found on Facebook Martin place now before we get to beating these things up let's take a good hard look at them and see how they compare do you think that these are made out of the same material well I don't know I know what this is made out of this is made out of FRP it goes for Franklin Roosevelt polymers and sometimes it stands for fiberglass reinforced polymer which we know this seed is made out of because they give us that info but there's knockoff we don't know we don't know the guy barely responded to our DMS this one feels pretty light let's see how much the knockoff was the fake seat weighs 14 pounds flat now let's see about the real one 15.4 pounds that means it's made with more stuff yeah the real one is a pound and a half heavier than the knockoff the fake seat is probably some sort of fiberglass maybe not a fiberglass reinforced polymer but goodbye and so this is what a real one looks like which is what every bridge seat should come with I think it's interesting that whoever counterfeited this seat went through the effort of making a counterfeit sticker and didn't make it the same but didn't match it at all right it's like why even do it then we pay a lot of attention to fonts and this is awful also the real seat has an authentication sticker on the side the fake one does not all right so why would someone like Nolan buy a fake seat Well I mean obviously you want to save some money and you still want to look cool and have a seat that holds you in place which you know knockoff seat can do all those things but the difference really comes in when it comes to safety uh the real seat is FIA certified it's approved by the FIA to be a safe seat that you can race with yeah we've got a little donut version of an fi a certified test that we're going to carry out on these seats we're going to drop a truck on them we're going to drop the we're going to drop a truck on them and this is the truck you may remember this truck this is high truck from a previous season of high low you should go check it out and underneath of it we have the real Bridge Vios 3 seat and what we're going to be doing here is sort of replicating a real test now what the FIA does is try to crush the seat across the shoulder plane squishing it this way like a really really tight hug and what they're doing is putting 30 kilonewtons of force across the shoulder plane and looking for it to crush more than 200 millimeters we don't have the official rig but we're going to drop this truck on both seats across the shoulder plane and see which one squishes more whichever one does loses all right uh three two one looks like we squished about 165-ish millimeters the other the other question I have is like whether or not the truck is resting on suspension or the seat at this point but we're going to try again with the fake bridge seat and if it crushes more then we know that it's worse but if it crashes to about 160 millimeters then we know that our test is just made up and terrible all right Zach drop that try okay oh God that seemed to do a little bit of cracking all right so on an audio level that was way more violent that sounded like someone's back crushing way more bad and so that puts us at about 160 which tells me that we're just on the truck suspension at this point I mean the fact is the real seat is FIA certified and this one is not regardless of dropping a truck on it you know which seat is the good seat regardless of our test The Reel seat has already been tested by people smarter than us with real tests with the real tests real equipment I mean this thing passed and this thing didn't even show up say Zach what's under this car cover my ass 14 I forgot that you had this yeah well it doesn't run well I know the perfect way to get it running or at least motivate us to get it running let's add some Arrow ah yes but this is a real rocket bunny spoiler for an S14 that we got off from friends at greti and we paid 320 and this is its counterfeit counterpart that we got online for 97 right off the bat this one's black that one's white this one's right this one feels nice it's got a little Flex to it it's pretty thin yeah sticker with Japanese words on it that's true that's how you know it's a real part this one has a number 17 written in Sharpie now both of these claim to be made out of FRP the real rocket bunny has like a nice like kind of lip here yeah and this doesn't yeah that looks nasty this looks like a bad like mold yeah and this looks like it was made by somebody who cared about it you know yeah well you know the guy his name is Mira yeah we made an entire video about Mira we'll put a link in the description but all of these parts are made by Crazy digital computer scans and this is probably based on this yeah it seems to definitely be based on it all right James to test the strength and durability of our spoilers why don't you push on them try to get them to flex see how they handle it I Can't Get Enough Force huh well what should we do well if only we had a friend who was really good at nunchucks all right three two one hit it oh all right so one hit in it took off the outer layer yeah but it's still in one piece I'm bummed because I really wanted you to have this in your car I thought that was a sort of like the Silver Lining to this video but I guess yeah let's see how the cheap spoiler Compares okay stopperson are you ready three two one hit it all right so after one thwack it's definitely cracked more it is definitely cracked from that thwack and that's way deeper in to the fiberglass that's like dugway in and it split it this way and would you look at that at the very end of the spoiler it started to split in half along that uh line as well so not very good so the counterfeit piece uh broke way harder yeah I'd say it's pretty obvious the legitimate part is a lot better quality obviously this isn't the most scientific way to test spoilers but to us buying authentic parts means supporting people who designed them and you know you're getting the highest quality version possible this is a real enki rpf1 and this is an ESR sr11 oh it looks kind of similar surprisingly they look pretty similar what's up with that this wheel in this spec retails for 450 each this one about half the price at 250. this uses a process that enki refers to as mat or most advanced technology and all that means is that this is a rotary forged wheel and what that means is that this wheel is made the face is cast They gravity cast the whole wheel and then they put it onto a rotary forged drum and they draw out the barrel and what that does is squishes the metal makes the grain structure a lot tighter so you get the characteristics of a forged wheel in a cast wheel it's pretty cheap but very strong ESR doesn't provide any information on how they make these wheels and I think once we crack these things open we're gonna be able to tell a huge difference in the quality of the materials yeah I think these should be much stronger this is just a cast wheel where this is a cast wheel that's then rotary forged so if that rotary forging does anything this should be a stronger wheel now last time we tested real versus fake Wheels we dropped the wheel off the roof this time we're going to drop an anvil off the roof onto the wheels like a couple of Wiley coyotes yeah we're switching it up yeah then we're going to take a little microscopic look at the inside of these things to see the differences in the Metallurgy of both Wheels first the real nke RPF ones three two one yeah all right so this thing is dented for sure you have limp home on this for definite absolutely it's gonna have a little bit of a vibration but you're still in one piece and you're still alive now let's see how that ESR sr11 does three two one boy you hit it Square on the front face bead and it broke dude this thing is cracked bro that's a that's not a barrel hit really but uh it hit the lip and literally ripped it off the face which is pretty crazy uh I mean this is pretty this is pretty obvious but we're gonna try it again hit the barrel directly because we're scientists and we want some like really good data we ripped right through the barrel got a nice dent hole all right so we have some cross sections from each wheel here uh the fake one we have a much larger cross-section for some reason okay that's a pretty good Focus there what do you see metal yeah it looks like something you'd find under the ground yeah it looks like a rock yeah I mean it looks it looks pretty uniform I don't see any big chunks it just looks like tiny Speckles of metal all squished together which I guess is what you want in a wheel I think so now let's look at the knockoff wheel and see if we can see any difference foreign yeah so right off the bat the fake wheel has a lot more inconsistencies than the real wheel yeah it looks like gravel big old chunks of crap in it and basically what that means is the metal is just less dense it's less squished together and you get you get some porosity uh which means that there's places that there isn't metal which is not what you want in a wheel all right James well it's very interesting I think that we've got a huge piece of the fake wheel and just tiny piece of the rear wheel how did that happen well it happened during our final test uh featuring the new donut mobile laboratory roll that footage so we've all seen videos of guys doing bad Donuts into a curb and breaking their wheels especially in those takeovers which you shouldn't do but what we want to see today is if we can break a wheel by hitting it laterally by hitting it sideways so we've mounted them up on the front of our Previa we're gonna run straight into a curve see what happens foreign but mostly in one piece the fake one shattered exactly what I predicted but it worked out great oh my God took a big chunk out but you know what didn't do that well Henry I don't know about your welding skills but the test worked out in spite of it fake Wheels potentially Killers if you run over a curb going 100 miles an hour sideways sideways thank you guys for watching this video and everything else on donut media click that subscribe button so you don't miss anything we upload videos all the time go pick up a camera go work on a car with your friends it's not that hard just sucks sometimes foreignthis is a real nkrpf1 race wheel and this is a cheap knockoff and we're gonna Ram them into that curve see the fact of the matter is a lot of car enthusiasts Nolan included by Cheap knockoff parts to save a few bucks but can cheap it out actually cost you your life with a lot of people online say today we're going to find out I'm James he's Zach welcome to Donut hit it Jerry thank you to keeps for sponsoring today's video planet Earth is under attack but I thought we eliminated hair loss on Earth Captain how could something like this just creep up because no one expects the inherited bad G this cannot get any worse oh oh it got worse it got worse this bad Gene is unpreventable don't worry Captain we've got the power of keeps on our side keeps makes hair loss prevention Easy by shipping your hair loss medication directly to your door at about half the cost of a traditional Pharmacy Plus keeps has an award-winning all-natural thickening shampoo and conditioner system everything you need to battle bad genes great work now quick Let's Help the others hair loss stops with keeps to get a special offer go to keeps.com Donut Media or click the link in the description the first thing we're going to be testing today is Ray seeds here we have a brid bios 3 which originally retailed for a thousand dollars and like with any high-end car brand you're gonna have some copycats out there like this 400 ripoff that we found on Facebook Martin place now before we get to beating these things up let's take a good hard look at them and see how they compare do you think that these are made out of the same material well I don't know I know what this is made out of this is made out of FRP it goes for Franklin Roosevelt polymers and sometimes it stands for fiberglass reinforced polymer which we know this seed is made out of because they give us that info but there's knockoff we don't know we don't know the guy barely responded to our DMS this one feels pretty light let's see how much the knockoff was the fake seat weighs 14 pounds flat now let's see about the real one 15.4 pounds that means it's made with more stuff yeah the real one is a pound and a half heavier than the knockoff the fake seat is probably some sort of fiberglass maybe not a fiberglass reinforced polymer but goodbye and so this is what a real one looks like which is what every bridge seat should come with I think it's interesting that whoever counterfeited this seat went through the effort of making a counterfeit sticker and didn't make it the same but didn't match it at all right it's like why even do it then we pay a lot of attention to fonts and this is awful also the real seat has an authentication sticker on the side the fake one does not all right so why would someone like Nolan buy a fake seat Well I mean obviously you want to save some money and you still want to look cool and have a seat that holds you in place which you know knockoff seat can do all those things but the difference really comes in when it comes to safety uh the real seat is FIA certified it's approved by the FIA to be a safe seat that you can race with yeah we've got a little donut version of an fi a certified test that we're going to carry out on these seats we're going to drop a truck on them we're going to drop the we're going to drop a truck on them and this is the truck you may remember this truck this is high truck from a previous season of high low you should go check it out and underneath of it we have the real Bridge Vios 3 seat and what we're going to be doing here is sort of replicating a real test now what the FIA does is try to crush the seat across the shoulder plane squishing it this way like a really really tight hug and what they're doing is putting 30 kilonewtons of force across the shoulder plane and looking for it to crush more than 200 millimeters we don't have the official rig but we're going to drop this truck on both seats across the shoulder plane and see which one squishes more whichever one does loses all right uh three two one looks like we squished about 165-ish millimeters the other the other question I have is like whether or not the truck is resting on suspension or the seat at this point but we're going to try again with the fake bridge seat and if it crushes more then we know that it's worse but if it crashes to about 160 millimeters then we know that our test is just made up and terrible all right Zach drop that try okay oh God that seemed to do a little bit of cracking all right so on an audio level that was way more violent that sounded like someone's back crushing way more bad and so that puts us at about 160 which tells me that we're just on the truck suspension at this point I mean the fact is the real seat is FIA certified and this one is not regardless of dropping a truck on it you know which seat is the good seat regardless of our test The Reel seat has already been tested by people smarter than us with real tests with the real tests real equipment I mean this thing passed and this thing didn't even show up say Zach what's under this car cover my ass 14 I forgot that you had this yeah well it doesn't run well I know the perfect way to get it running or at least motivate us to get it running let's add some Arrow ah yes but this is a real rocket bunny spoiler for an S14 that we got off from friends at greti and we paid 320 and this is its counterfeit counterpart that we got online for 97 right off the bat this one's black that one's white this one's right this one feels nice it's got a little Flex to it it's pretty thin yeah sticker with Japanese words on it that's true that's how you know it's a real part this one has a number 17 written in Sharpie now both of these claim to be made out of FRP the real rocket bunny has like a nice like kind of lip here yeah and this doesn't yeah that looks nasty this looks like a bad like mold yeah and this looks like it was made by somebody who cared about it you know yeah well you know the guy his name is Mira yeah we made an entire video about Mira we'll put a link in the description but all of these parts are made by Crazy digital computer scans and this is probably based on this yeah it seems to definitely be based on it all right James to test the strength and durability of our spoilers why don't you push on them try to get them to flex see how they handle it I Can't Get Enough Force huh well what should we do well if only we had a friend who was really good at nunchucks all right three two one hit it oh all right so one hit in it took off the outer layer yeah but it's still in one piece I'm bummed because I really wanted you to have this in your car I thought that was a sort of like the Silver Lining to this video but I guess yeah let's see how the cheap spoiler Compares okay stopperson are you ready three two one hit it all right so after one thwack it's definitely cracked more it is definitely cracked from that thwack and that's way deeper in to the fiberglass that's like dugway in and it split it this way and would you look at that at the very end of the spoiler it started to split in half along that uh line as well so not very good so the counterfeit piece uh broke way harder yeah I'd say it's pretty obvious the legitimate part is a lot better quality obviously this isn't the most scientific way to test spoilers but to us buying authentic parts means supporting people who designed them and you know you're getting the highest quality version possible this is a real enki rpf1 and this is an ESR sr11 oh it looks kind of similar surprisingly they look pretty similar what's up with that this wheel in this spec retails for 450 each this one about half the price at 250. this uses a process that enki refers to as mat or most advanced technology and all that means is that this is a rotary forged wheel and what that means is that this wheel is made the face is cast They gravity cast the whole wheel and then they put it onto a rotary forged drum and they draw out the barrel and what that does is squishes the metal makes the grain structure a lot tighter so you get the characteristics of a forged wheel in a cast wheel it's pretty cheap but very strong ESR doesn't provide any information on how they make these wheels and I think once we crack these things open we're gonna be able to tell a huge difference in the quality of the materials yeah I think these should be much stronger this is just a cast wheel where this is a cast wheel that's then rotary forged so if that rotary forging does anything this should be a stronger wheel now last time we tested real versus fake Wheels we dropped the wheel off the roof this time we're going to drop an anvil off the roof onto the wheels like a couple of Wiley coyotes yeah we're switching it up yeah then we're going to take a little microscopic look at the inside of these things to see the differences in the Metallurgy of both Wheels first the real nke RPF ones three two one yeah all right so this thing is dented for sure you have limp home on this for definite absolutely it's gonna have a little bit of a vibration but you're still in one piece and you're still alive now let's see how that ESR sr11 does three two one boy you hit it Square on the front face bead and it broke dude this thing is cracked bro that's a that's not a barrel hit really but uh it hit the lip and literally ripped it off the face which is pretty crazy uh I mean this is pretty this is pretty obvious but we're gonna try it again hit the barrel directly because we're scientists and we want some like really good data we ripped right through the barrel got a nice dent hole all right so we have some cross sections from each wheel here uh the fake one we have a much larger cross-section for some reason okay that's a pretty good Focus there what do you see metal yeah it looks like something you'd find under the ground yeah it looks like a rock yeah I mean it looks it looks pretty uniform I don't see any big chunks it just looks like tiny Speckles of metal all squished together which I guess is what you want in a wheel I think so now let's look at the knockoff wheel and see if we can see any difference foreign yeah so right off the bat the fake wheel has a lot more inconsistencies than the real wheel yeah it looks like gravel big old chunks of crap in it and basically what that means is the metal is just less dense it's less squished together and you get you get some porosity uh which means that there's places that there isn't metal which is not what you want in a wheel all right James well it's very interesting I think that we've got a huge piece of the fake wheel and just tiny piece of the rear wheel how did that happen well it happened during our final test uh featuring the new donut mobile laboratory roll that footage so we've all seen videos of guys doing bad Donuts into a curb and breaking their wheels especially in those takeovers which you shouldn't do but what we want to see today is if we can break a wheel by hitting it laterally by hitting it sideways so we've mounted them up on the front of our Previa we're gonna run straight into a curve see what happens foreign but mostly in one piece the fake one shattered exactly what I predicted but it worked out great oh my God took a big chunk out but you know what didn't do that well Henry I don't know about your welding skills but the test worked out in spite of it fake Wheels potentially Killers if you run over a curb going 100 miles an hour sideways sideways thank you guys for watching this video and everything else on donut media click that subscribe button so you don't miss anything we upload videos all the time go pick up a camera go work on a car with your friends it's not that hard just sucks sometimes foreign