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What's going on everyone,
Gels from Fitment Industry's FI Garage,
and as you can see here,
we have a lovely bright red Rotiform wheel for you today.
This is going to be the BLQ from Rotiform,
and before we go ahead and get into it today,
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with all these cool red Rotiform wheels
that we're taking a look at.
Well let's go ahead and get right into it today.
So Rotiform is the cool kid of the wheel scene
right now, and they have been for the past couple of years.
They have some pretty wild designs,
especially in their forged lineup wheels like the ZRH,
and the DIA, and have made the rounds on social media,
usually popping up on some sort of wide bodied supercar.
Now, we don't have any of those wheels here today,
unfortunately, but we do however have the Rotiform BLQ.
Now, the BLQ is one of 15 wheels offered
in Rotiform's cast, or model block lineup,
as they refer to it as.
As you can see, it's a mesh style,
multispoked design that has a lot going on
with these spokes.
It's almost like one of those optical illusions, almost,
like the ones where it's three box drawing,
and you look at it for a while and you see it going one way,
and all of a sudden it flips on you,
and then you can't get it to flip back.
It's kind of like what's going on with these spokes,
either they're coming in towards each other,
or they're crossing and splitting out to a y,
so a lot of stuff going on in there.
Now, I'm looking into it a little further,
behind the spokes you do get a nice separation
of everything that is going on with the spokes,
and that is thanks to I guess what we would call
this step lift that comes in,
kind of behind all the spokes here,
and sits in the back of everything.
Now, the BLQ is actually offered
in the three-piece forged option as well,
so I do believe this here, the step lift,
comes from that forged variant.
Now, that's because these spokes are actually floating
in the forged option,
they don't completely reach the outside lip of the wheel,
as they do in the cast version.
So I'm glad they did continue to offer that same styling
in the cast version as well,
that adds a little more flavor to it,
it doesn't make it nearly as bland as I think it would have
if they didn't have that.
Now, as far as sizes go for the BLQ,
we're going to be looking at 18, 19, and 20 inches
in diameter with widths ranging from eight and a half
to 10 inches, depending on which diameter you choose.
One thing to know with the BLQ
is that the face of the wheel is generally pretty flat,
you don't get a ton of concavity with the design,
so it's something to keep in mind
if you're looking at getting something for your car,
if you want a flat profile,
perfect, these will offer it,
with a plus 45 offset.
However, when you do start getting down into plus 35s,
you do see the spokes start to dive back toward the center
a little bit, you get a little bit of concavity,
get a little bit of extra styling too,
which really kind of helps set it off.
As far as finishes for these guys,
you're going to be seeing, of course,
the gloss red candy apple looking finish that you see here,
which is absolutely killer,
other options as well you're going to see
are matte black and a silver machine finish.
Three options to choose from,
two pretty subtle ones, and one pretty wild finish,
that will go really nicely with either a white car
or a black car, maybe even just like a gray,
something to really give a pop color.
For the most part we're going to see the BLQ
on a lot of Euro cars,
just like any other Rotiform wheels out there.
So cars that are able to pull off more of a flat profile,
more blocky profile cars like Passats, GTIs, S4s, Jettas,
but we do see them even come over to some JDM cars as well.
I've actually seen some FRSs and BRZs
that can pull these off
with some nice fitment, WRXs,
and even some newer body style Civics,
are typically what you're going to see these on.
And coming in starting right around 11 hundred dollars
for a set of these BLQs,
you're looking at quite a bit of styling for a decent price.
So if you're interested in finding out more
about the BLQ, or maybe seeing what will fit your car,
head on over to fitmentindustrie.com
or you can check them out in our Fitment gallery,
punch in your year, make and model,
see what size, offsets, suspension,
tire size is going to fit your car.
And of course, if you are super interested,
you can even grab a set for yourself over there as well.
That's going to do it for today,
this the Rotiform BLQ,
we will see you later.
Peace.