Need to change PCD on wheels (anyone know a wheel or machine shop?)

Putting up more pictures in my own thread but here is a picture of the finish:

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Looks amazing against magnetic. :)
 
Nope. Not sure at all how you would re-drill that style, or how it would look afterwards. Surely the design suggests the holes would have to be filled, then re-drilled off-centre or something? Sure, it wouldn't be by much, but you would always see it since you would know it's there.
 
I don't know if that is a poor photograph but it looks absolutely awful. It looks like it's come straight off the milling machine, quick debur and into laquer with no finishing at all :confused:
 
Return to sender without a doubt. Too much risk, too much to go wrong.

Irritating, but it's their fault.
 
Diddums said:
I don't know if that is a poor photograph but it looks absolutely awful. It looks like it's come straight off the milling machine, quick debur and into laquer with no finishing at all :confused:
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Agreed, they don't even look uniformly "brushed", if brushed was the effect they were aiming at.
 
You don't need to be looking for a machine shop to drill holes. First it needs welding up to allow all the holes to move inboard just under 3mm! Its crazy to do that, only way drilling would mildly make sense would be making another series of holes clocked 36 degrees around the wheel centre. ie cutting fresh, but that wouldnt work with most wheel designs, including theses.

Then re-drilling, with the obvious effect on the surface and design. Plus the wheels are forged, not sure what will happen at the weld sites where the wheels are mounted to the car.

Strongly advise against avoid bodging your wheels for someone else's mistake.
 
Jonnycoupe said:
You don't need to be looking for a machine shop to drill holes. First it needs welding up to allow all the holes to move inboard just under 3mm! Its crazy to do that, only way drilling would mildly make sense would be making another series of holes clocked 36 degrees around the wheel centre. ie cutting fresh, but that wouldnt work with most wheel designs, including theses.

Then re-drilling, with the obvious effect on the surface and design. Plus the wheels are forged, not sure what will happen at the weld sites where the wheels are mounted to the car.

Strongly advise against avoid bodging your wheels for someone else's mistake.
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Thought I'd posted but maybe did not, manufacturer is taking them back and replacing.
 
Each hole would need to move towards the centre by just over 4mm, could be done but it would ruin the finish and look of the overall design I think? As the hole would in effect just be elongated there also the possibility that you'd see a part of the whole that the fixing bolt wouldn't cover.

I know you are sending them back but insist that you don't want the same wheels altered and will only accept the correct wheels for the car.
 
You're doing the right thing, sending them back to be replaced with new ones. Redrilling can be done but given what these will have cost you, the design, and the simple fact that its the supplier/manufacturer at fault, then you shouldn't have to mess around with such things.
 
What is the official "finish" on them Gibbo?

I tend to agree with Diddums when he says they don't look all that special in that pic. Looks like various angles of scrubbing with wire wool, and given your standards I figure the pic must not be showing them off to their best advantage.
 
When they say send them back to them for "remachining" does that mean they're just going to go at them and alter them rather than send you a brand new set that are the correct PCD?
 
Gepetto said:
What is the official "finish" on them Gibbo?

I tend to agree with Diddums when he says they don't look all that special in that pic. Looks like various angles of scrubbing with wire wool, and given your standards I figure the pic must not be showing them off to their best advantage.
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Brushed with clearcoat, I love the finish which is all that matters. :)

My only interest is getting a set which fits.
 
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