Some news about VeilSide and DPE wheels

[url]http://www.urbanracer.com/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=2050&z=5[/url]

[quote]Legendary Tuning and Design Company, VeilSide has partnered with DPE Wheels to produce a full line of custom built, high quality, multi piece forged wheels. These wheels will be tailored for the mid to high end Japanese, European, American and SUV markets.

The wheel designs will continue to reflect VeilSide contemporary designs, which range from sport to luxury. VeilSide/DPE wheels will be custom built to order and put through rigorous D.O.T standards to uphold safety, strength, quality, and performance. VeilSide/DPE Wheels will be available through both Authorized Dealers for VeilSide and DPE Wheels. Production, Repair services, and Custom finishing services for the wheel collection will be done in the United States to tailor each customers unique needs and shorten the production time.

VeilSide holds numerous records for racing achievements, design awards, and upholds some of the highest standards in quality and service. We are honored & excited to work with DPE Wheels, a company that follows the same beliefs in high quality, incomparable customer service, and a penchant for elegant designs.・said VeilSide USA Operations Director, Ray Fong.

About VeilSide: VeilSide opened in the outskirts of Tokyo in 1990. Since its inception VeilSide has been established for winning the highly coveted Tokyo Auto Salon numerous times, accumulating more than 20 different awards for design. VeilSide also holds over 15 successful racing records, and still holds 3 world racing records that have yet to be broken. VeilSide expanded its product offering to North America in 1999, and VeilSide USA has been thriving ever since. VeilSide products have appeared in various magazines, music videos, and have been featured in The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. The product line includes racing seats, wheels, race engines, suspensions, and accessories. The main product line consists of original designed aero body components that continue the VeilSide tradition of quality and service.

About DPE: Dynamic Performance Engineering (DPE), based in Southern California, prides itself in manufacturing original products that are track proven and performance driven. With years of experience and knowledge gained in the aftermarket community, DPE has fused performance, functionality, and design to bring serious auto enthusiasts with the utmost quality in products and customer service.

DPE's custom forged wheel line utilizes the highest quality forged T6 - 6061 aircraft aluminum components in the manufacturing process to ensure each wheel is lightweight while maintaining stringent structural integrity specifications. R&D followed by Computer Aided Design (CAD) is used to create digital models in order to build prototypes, which are then rigorously tested at independent labs to exceed the standards set by the Department of Transportation (DOT).

DPE stresses high quality products, but more importantly the customer service behind it. With that in mind, dealer selection is key. To the customer, their interaction with DPE is through our dealer network. This is why DPE strives to build long-lasting relationships with each dealer to ensure that they maintain the high level of customer service that DPE dedicates its business.

For more information about VeilSide USA contact them at 310-835-5684 or visit the website at [url]www.veilside.com[/url]
For more information about DPE contact them at: 562.424.3344 or visit the website at: [url]www.DPE-Wheels.com[/url]
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I wonder how much is the price difference between DPE and DPE/Veilside wheels....hmmmmm

So what's going to happen to the Andrew Racing wheels? Don't tell me this is another wheel manufacturer that went away :'(

agreed

For a while now, all of the wheels are labeled as "Discontinued" on the Veilside USA homepage.

Uh oh.... aren't DPEs just another random brand for Intro wheels? I saw a girl with a set of DPEs on her Audi semi recently and was severely-disappointed... and even more so after learning how much she paid for them. I remember thinking, "damn, that's like Intro wheels! Blah quality, poor design, and with high prices, yet euro car people will snatch them up like no tomorrow!" And sure enough, I think they were made by Intro. Anyway, looks like Veilside is also another company getting smart... i.e. hooking up with a company that can produce those bland style wheels for them that the US market tends to gobble up, that cost next to nothing to manufacture, yet sell for like 3x more than they should. Win freakin win, baby!

DPE is just like IFORGED CNC'd from Forged Billet centers. HRE is also done the same way. I don't see what the complaint could be about quality? Seriously there isn't a lot of room for error. 

 How DPE is an independent company run by 4 individuals whom are enthusiasts themselves. 

There were alot of complaints about Iforged's clear coat finish etc. HRE's had plenty of failed wheels at the autocrosses etc awhile back. 

[quote=Tony ]
There were alot of complaints about Iforged's clear coat finish etc. HRE's had plenty of failed wheels at the autocrosses etc awhile back. 
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More internet propaganda and bullshit. The wheels that failed were in fact Kinesis, not HRE.+

Yes, the DPEs are forged and CNC'd like other brands. The difference is in the design. If not properly engineered and tested, any forged wheel CAN and will fail... fatigue is the killer of wheels. Some of the American forged wheels are so thin in the cross-section (combined with thin spokes) that I can't see how they can pass fatigue testing. Of course, most companies don't test their wheels, since there is no regulation saying you have to... :buck2: :idiot2:

Hopefully the DPE crew is having an independent lab do the cornering and radial testing (they claim to)... if one of the Veilside wheels comes to grief, it's Veilside's name that will be tarnished. Honestly, I can't see how some of the iForged and DPE wheels pass test... certainly not to the new WIC recommended loads and cycles. 

[quote=swifty949 ]
DPE is just like IFORGED CNC'd from Forged Billet centers. HRE is also done the same way. I don't see what the complaint could be about quality? Seriously there isn't a lot of room for error. 

 How DPE is an independent company run by 4 individuals whom are enthusiasts themselves. 
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I personally have never owned any of the Intro-made wheels, but have seen plenty of them to be extraordinarily disappointed with the designs and construction and materials. BUT, an old roomate of mine deals with euro cars and says he's had to send back so many Intro wheels from the Audi and Bimmer guys... yet those guys keep shelling out the $$$. 

Intro/Introforged/Jline/Zone/DTM Autohaus/DPE/Motoforged/etc. wheel...or 1/18th scale RC car wheel? 
[img]http://www.cyberdesign.pair.com/rc/cars/jet_e18_mrs4_05c%5B1%5D.gif[/img]

rc-car wheel

[quote=carb0 ]
rc-car wheel
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You are correct... and actually, sad as it may seem, I think the center lock toy wheel looks way better than a lot of those real wheels in question cuz it has a curvature to the spokes, and of course, the centers sink way in. The other one, looks just like the real wheels in question cuz, as I've said before, it looks like something someone could make in their intermediate machining course at a local community college... manual machining at that, not even cnc

A lil' off topic but those are really nice RC wheels. Are there any actual wheels that look like that? (not centerlock of course)