Alloy Wheel Repair

Beepcake · 26 Mar 2013 at 11:33

So, after an "incident" the other day I need to get one of my wheels repaired. I was going to take it to a local place, but they reckon they'll need to send it away for 3-4 days to be welded, which is a long time to be without it - has anyone else done similar damage and had it repaired? I'm guessing it's beyond a mobile guy and inadvisable to fill it, or am I just over-egging the damage?

I've never damaged an alloy before, so I'm a bit clueless

P.S. Apparently the rim protectors on PZeros are flippin' useless

andicole0 · 26 Mar 2013 at 11:36

You could start here http://www.wickedwheels.co.uk/

Andi.

Beepcake · 26 Mar 2013 at 11:43

andicole0 said:
You could start here http://www.wickedwheels.co.uk/

Andi.

Cheers, but I know a mobile guy, and a local company - I'm more after advice on what kind of repair to get to fix the damage I have (oddly the mobile people say they can do it, and the non-mobile people say it's better not to use mobile people

)

pugheaven · 26 Mar 2013 at 11:44

F1 Alloys in Chester mate, best person for miles. I got mine all done there, speak to John, he's sound and he did my RX8 with a 2 year guarantee. If you go mobile, they'll fix, spray and the paint will be off in 6 months, waste of money (as are most of the mobile ones, alloys need dipping and doing properly). It needs to be stripped, fix, checked, prepped, poxy and sprayed and lacquered. Believe me, the guy is GOOD! At least give him a call... and speak to him even if you don't go there. He does a full service on all 4 alloys in whatever finish and calipers for £295 all in!!! I went custom dark pearl which flips in the sun...

You might wanna get that tyre checked or replaced as it's cut a chunk out, I assume you seen that?

Mine after respray:

andicole0 · 26 Mar 2013 at 11:47

By the look of the rest of the wheel a 'quick' mobile fix would be fine.

Andi.

Beepcake · 26 Mar 2013 at 12:02

pugheaven said:
F1 Alloys in Chester mate, best person for miles. I got mine all done there, speak to John, he's sound and he did my RX8 with a 2 year guarantee. If you go mobile, they'll fix, spray and the paint will be off in 6 months, waste of money (as are most of the mobile ones, alloys need dipping and doing properly). It needs to be stripped, fix, checked, prepped, poxy and sprayed and lacquered. Believe me, the guy is GOOD! At least give him a call... and speak to him even if you don't go there. He does a full service on all 4 alloys in whatever finish and calipers for £295 all in!!! I went custom dark pearl which flips in the sun...

You might wanna get that tyre checked or replaced as it's cut a chunk out, I assume you seen that?

Mine after respray:

Cheers - I'll drop him a line - the tyre is fine, there's just a small nick in the virtually non-existant rim protector.

I'm not sure I want to pay £295 when the other wheels are fine, but hopefully he can offer some advice/pricing anyway

bledd · 26 Mar 2013 at 12:05

How bad is that nick in the tyre next to it?

Beepcake · 26 Mar 2013 at 12:10

bledd. said:
How bad is that nick in the tyre next to it?

It's just the "fleshy" bit on the rim protector.

Beepcake · 8 Apr 2013 at 19:01

Got it back from F1 Alliys today, got all 4 wheels stripped and re-done, and the callipers painted red to match the car (not because I think it's a Porsche ;-)

). Took a fair while to get it done, but happy with the results:

Viper² · 8 Apr 2013 at 19:51

Nice one. How long did it take out of interest?

Beepcake · 8 Apr 2013 at 20:34

Dropped it off on Wednesday, picked it up today. Would have probably been Friday but took longer to strip because they'd previously had some cosmetic fixes done, and I took up a few hours of his time with fixing and issue with the mondeo wheel on the Wednesday afternoon.

^JP^ · 8 Apr 2013 at 20:41

Wheels look brand new! Had to scroll up and check it was the same design wheel in your first pic because it looks so good :eek:

Minstadave · 8 Apr 2013 at 20:46

Do you mind if i ask how much did it cost? Need mine doing but looking at £360 for a decent job.

Beepcake · 8 Apr 2013 at 20:49

£295 inc. VAT - they have courtesy cars and courtesy wheels available too, although I didn't take them up on that as the TT isn't a daily driver so wasn't needed.

Viper² · 8 Apr 2013 at 23:43

Good price but surely it shouldn't take 5 days? I got mine done after I bought my MR2 and the place did them in half a day. Fair enough they only had a few scuffs/scratches, but still..?

GT3 · 8 Apr 2013 at 23:48

Nice and glad you didn't decide to change the colour of the wheels. Mine have been re-done in anthracite and I'd much prefer standard silver but hard to justify getting a set of perfect condition alloys repainted!

pugheaven · 8 Apr 2013 at 23:57

Very sweet. Yeah when I had mine done, dropped off Monday and got the car back Wednesday, depends how busy he is... he's been mad lately. Nice to see you got them all done ;-)

Sweet!

Beepcake · 9 Apr 2013 at 07:47

Viper² said:
Good price but surely it shouldn't take 5 days? I got mine done after I bought my MR2 and the place did them in half a day. Fair enough they only had a few scuffs/scratches, but still..?

If they're doing it in half a day or a day then it's just cosmetic touch up. These were stripped to bare metal (which means a day in an acid bath), then welded to fix the damage, then built back up again and baked - bit more involved than a cosmetic touch up

Normally I'd have gotten it back on the Friday, but like I said, he did me a favour on the Mondeo wheels which took him some time, and the previous cosmetic repairs meant it took longer to strip.

Rybo89 · 9 Apr 2013 at 08:11

Ay, think i am going to ring these guys up. When they say they do a brake caliper 'refurbish' does that mean they take the caliper off and do it properly?

ci_newman · 9 Apr 2013 at 09:14

Those alloys look great