Here is what I can call my wheel story. At the beginning of june, I was searching for aftermarket wheels and I found DPE deep concave, WOW what a look !! but the price was a little bit higher than I wanred to spend. So I continue to search and I found Niche Sportiva A200, wich is almost a perfect copy of DPE. The price was ok for me and I place an order. Instead of tell all the story , here is copy of e-mail I sent to MHT Luxury Alloys on 10th september :
To whom who is concern,
here is include copy of my order. This the copy of a document you sent to my dealer at the beginning of june.
I saw thoses wheels ( Sportiva A 200) on your website and I found it fantastic. There is a lot of wheels with five spokes but the look of these was special to me. The end of the rays were designed with a small cut angle and to me this detail makes the wheels very different than others five spokes wheels.
So i ordered it. At that time I really-deeply insisted to my dealer to tell you that the wheels would come exactly like on the pictures on your website. He respond to me NO PROBLEM ! They (you) will send a draw before make the wheels and everything will be ok. I have to say here that in order to avoid any problem , I told him that I will not take the wheels if that is not exactly like the pictures we see. No problem he said..
So I wait... and wait... and the draw arrive. I make the observation to my dealer that on that draw we cannot see the angle at the end of the rays. The day after he said to me that he had call you and everything will be ok. The angle will be there. In my mind i was not sure but he said so.... So I sit and wait.......and wait.... 10 weeks to receive the wheels.
And guess what??? NO ANGLE the rays are straight off to the end.... like a lot not to say most of five spokes wheels.
My dealer do not understand why, I do not understand why. I was very upset. And the dealer was now stuck with 4 Porsche wheels he never will be able to sell in my region.
After long discuss with him.. He make me a price with no profit for him maybe a little lose ( i don’t know..) I do not want to have to make all the process once again. ( I have waited an entire summer for this..) So I decided to take the wheels.
I have to say that it is not too bad, even nice but nice like any other five spokes wheels.
Just nice... not WOW !!!!!!!
There is no winner in this..
So I write this to you in order to have an answer to a simple question (and I deeply hope that you wil not have any weird excuse..)
WHY WHY WHY thoses wheels has not been designed and made like all Sportiva A 200 I can see on your website ?????? WHAT HAPPENED ?????

It will really please me to have an answer . This will not change the wheels but maybe will give me a peace of mind.
Finally, I hope you can understand the sense of my words. Being french native, I apologize for my poor english...

Regards

I know that many of you will find the wheels ok and it is ok for me as well but it is not what I have ordered.You can compare with Sportiva A200 on the MHT website. At that point, I have receive no reply, nothing from MHT.
Sorry for the long post. I hope this can help someone who consider order aftermarket wheels...

 

when they show a picture of a wheel in a catalogue, it may be among the first they ever made in that style. It is a style they can make for 'any' car.
But for any specific car, the offset and width and height has to be usable on that car. It may not be capable of handling the offset and shape of the origional wheel pictured. So when they then make a set of those wheels for your car, it may not be able to have the exact shape or concave as the origional one pictured.

 

On their website, I found " car configurator " and I can see a Porsche like mine with wheels exactly like I wanted..

 

which means nothing since it's most likely a photoshop of some sort.

Do you mean that your wheels didn't come with the "overhang" at the end of the split spokes like they depict on the website?

 

Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

 

I think the OP was expecting this look:

 

Yes, and I've had this one. Which is not bad but not as expected.

 

I can see why you're frustrated since the wheels aren't exactly like you expected. I had to look at both pictures for a minute to figure out what the difference was you're talking about. Sometimes those little details are all that matters though and they're the main reason you ordered a specific product, so if they're missing it really stinks.

It appears the design of the wheel on the website is slightly different than the one you have possibly because of the offset as OKB said. The spokes are slightly more recessed in the one on the website so the outside edge ends where the rim is still flat, but on your wheels the outside edge is beyond the flat part of the rim so it would look a little weird to have a flat end to the spokes going past the rim.

 

I think you answered your own question. You did find, "almost a perfect copy." I think you got caught up in the price and in your heart wanted it to be true, so you could save a few bucks, and get something so special... Unfortunately, this happens all too often with hopeful buyers.

I mean people make knockoff's for a reason, and it is not to make their Copy better than the original...

 

It took me a few minutes to notice this too. If you're saving a few thousand dollars I'd live with it, if you're saving a few hundred I'd swap them out.

 

I you wish, take a look at the Niche Sportiva A200, the Vertini Monaco, the ADV 05, the DPE Deep Concave. Who copy who ?? I was very comfortable with the Niche , which is not a cheap wheel. The point here is that they have not sent what I ordered, and I don't know why. MBENZF1 is right when he say that the difference is minor. And I have saved a lot. And it is OK now. MHT and all this is now behind me.
At a time , I found my life was turning around those wheels which is ridiculous. My post was just in order to warn to be very precise and make double and even triple check when you order wheels ( or maybe other stuff) that is made supposely according to your specs. thanks all for your concern!

 

The wheels you ended up with actually look better!

(And I think you have a very good attitude considering the mix-up).

 

After staring at the pictures for a morning, I finally figured out what's wrong with the wheels. I say go ask them to replace the wheels for you.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one that had trouble finding the difference right away. I had the two pictures open side by side on my computer to compare them. I felt like I was looking at one of those "What's different in this picture versus the one above?" games that my 6 year old daughter has in her activity books.

 

Beru---> I appreciate your efforts to warn us of your experience, but I still don't know exactly what it was. Another poster posted some wheel and said he thought that was the look you were going for. I guess it would have been easier to just post the 2 pix of the wheels that you were discussing and the location or link of the wheel in question and we could see what was advertised and what you actually received.

I thought you said it was close, but i guess you meant it was close only after you received the wheel, and not while you were researching it.

So, is this the exact wheel that you wanted?