Well my buddy pulled into work this evening with a wheel in the back of his truck. The first thing I noticed was the center cap which said "Schumacher." I have seen that these wheels are pretty rare but I am just wondering if there are any specific details on the wheels that will tell me if they are legit or not. Since there are companys that made knock offs I would rather not buy them if there are. The guy has no idea if they are or not, to him its just a set of random wheels. The back of the wheels says they are 18x7.5 +45. They're 4 lug so I am guess they are probably 4x100 & 4x114.

Here is a picture.

 

doesnt look from that picture that they are real two pieces.

if they arent, they are obviously fake.

EDIT: I also havent seen any that large before.

 

Real Schumachers were offered in 16" and smaller, size wise.

Tenzo Schu-4's (etc...) were only offered in 17" and larger.

 

Thanks! Well at least they have legit center caps!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by civicgeek133 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Thanks! Well at least they have legit center caps! </TD></TR></TABLE>

Actually they don't. They might look similar, but they're not the same. I have both styles of center cap, and they don't even look similar when compared side-by-side.

 

Lol are you serious. That is sad they actually made knock off center caps.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by toyomatt84 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Real Schumachers were offered in 16" and smaller, size wise.

</TD></TR></TABLE> yep. i agree. real deal schus only came in 16" and 15" (import only)models

also, the other big giveaway besides looking for the rims diameter is to look at the valve stem location..(real schu pictured below)

http://memimage.cardomain.net/...l.jpg

here is a real Schumacher rim... and then look at yours.. the real schu has the open ended notch where the valve stem goes and that 18" "schu" pictured up above has the valve stem just peaking through the actual lip of the wheel right next to the (fake)wheel bolts.

 

I noticed that also when I was comparing pictures. But All I could compare them to was the 16s so I wasn't sure if they changed the location or not. Thanks guys!

 

I got that wheel on my civic and the same Schumacher center caps.
So sad if not real Schumacher....

 

^Also a fake

 

its even sadder they make knockoff rims

 

Who does? SSR doesn't.

 

so, who makes those knockoff center caps for schumacher? I need a set. I have the real wheel..

 

The Tenzo caps don't fit in the SSR's. I've had two sets of real Schumachers, and they fit neither.

 

are the schu-4 caps too small or big for the ssr schumacher wheels?

 

Too big.

 

Nakayama is the company who bought the rights and name of the schumacher wheel from SSR and you can order the caps through them and they fit the original ssr schumacher wheel

 

i recently had 3 sets of SSR Schumacher at one time and one of the sets had a slightly different sized center cap opening compared to the other 2 sets.

i tried both the replica caps and the real deal SSR caps. the nakayama caps would not fit any of the SSR rims. they either were too big or too small.

so this might explain why sometimes the nakayama caps will work and sometimes they won't.

 

Type in work euroline and then ssr vienna in google. Nothing is an original at this point. There's only so many symmetrical designs that can fit in an aluminum hoop and look decent

 

I've got a set of Euroline's and have handled Vienna's many times before. Yes, there are certain models in both lines (those are lines by the way, not models) that are exceedingly similar... but neither are relevant to the post I was making. I was referring to SSR not making Schumacher's as a knock-off.

 

I thought you were just saying that ssr has never copied anyone. Every company is guilty of it to some extent and I'm sick of all the rota (and other cheaper rim) bashing that goes on here.

 

I'm not focusing on Rota's... they didn't mimic the "Schumacher" label on the center caps (which is such a farce, since Tenzo didn't even name the wheel "Schumacher"). That, and Tenzo's wheels usually weight about 12 elephants.