wheel refurbishment

[truss]

iive owned my ibiza FR for a few weeks now and ive really got into cleaning it properly.
when i bought it i knw the wheels were i na bit of a sorry state, 3 wheels have kerb marks on, the front 2 are quite badly kerbed and look as if they have had a DIY repair on as it looks like some sort of spray has been used.
i was wondering if any of you guys have used any wheels refurbishing companies and can recommend me one?
im in the west mids and want a good job done!
cheers

 

[marks_leon]

Im in Wolves and I was looking at getting mine done, there is a place in dudley that will do it for around £35 a wheel and thats a full refurb where there shotblasted and then sprayed, will try and get you the website. Other to that EF autospares on the Stafford Road near Mcdonalds they may do it for you, they are ok there.

Let me know where you go.

 

[marks_leon]

smartcarerepair.co.uk

 

[truss]

cheers for the site, ill check that out!

 

[Markyboyt]

K N Wheels in telford also do wheel refurbs although they dont advertise it on there website.

This is what they told me when I emailed them

We are Alloy Wheel manufacturers and all refurbs are chemically stripped of the old paint and then processed as if they were new wheel production.This involves fettling, pre-treatment, polyester priming, wet painting , followed by polyester powder clearcoating.
The factory is indeed the one at Ketley and we are receiving refurbs between the hours of 9.00am to 4.30pm , Monday to Thursday, 2.00pm finish on Friday.
There are some colour options but surcharges may apply. The best approach is to bring the wheels to the factory and discuss what finish you require.

They wanted £30 plus vat per wheel up to 17'

 

[truss]

thats great, cheers for that.

 

[paullcr]

i want mine done on my lcr but cause the brembos cant get any one to lend me some 18s while mine are refurbed and dont have a garge to keep the car id prob wake up it the morrning and the brakes will be gone. i thought about doing it 1 at a time as my spare is 18 but herd stuff about the colours maybe a slight different shade.

 

[artemis_1991]

Sure there was a company who lent you wheels whilst refurbing. cant rememmber for the life of me what they were called though!

 

[gus]

try bournes wheels in brum, they powder coat them used them on my old bmw alloys and they come out amazing . give them a call they charge around £25 per wheel 01216666595

 

[cupra.rich]

revive-uk are very good and well priced considering the quality!!

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

I just done mine myself cost about £35 for materials and a few hours hard work.

They were silver and quite badly kerbed and scratched, I filled, flatted, primed and painted them satin black myself.

Look ok for £35 I reckon?

 

[Boo]

I just done mine myself cost about £35 for materials and a few hours hard work.

They were silver and quite badly kerbed and scratched, I filled, flatted, primed and painted them satin black myself.

Look ok for £35 I reckon?

Hmmm ............................ what paint did you use ?

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

I take it you don't like them then?

Top coat is made by glasurit, Standox etch primer and Think the primer is U-pol, filler is proper metal filler 'chemical metal'

I used to do things like this for a living so no way I'm paying a bodyshop £50 a wheel to do excatly the same thing using excatly the same products .....by someone less qualified then me

 

[Boo]

I take it you don't like them then?

Top coat is made by glasurit, Standox etch primer and Think the primer is U-pol, filler is proper metal filler 'chemical metal'

I used to do things like this for a living so no way I'm paying a bodyshop £50 a wheel to do excatly the same thing using excatly the same products .....by someone less qualified then me

No I like them, I just dont think I would be confident enough to do them myself. Although at the moment my wheels look awful and they probably couldnt look any worse than they do. I also figure I cant do anymore damage that I have done and could always get them powder coated at a later date.

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

I still have 2 whels to do so if I get a chance I'll do a bit of a DIY guide with pictures of the different stages and how I did it.

 

[Viking]

I still have 2 whels to do so if I get a chance I'll do a bit of a DIY guide with pictures of the different stages and how I did it.

I'll be looking for this when you do.

 

[Boo]

I still have 2 whels to do so if I get a chance I'll do a bit of a DIY guide with pictures of the different stages and how I did it.

That would be great if you could honey. Might give me some confidence

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

No problem, will be start of next week I expect

 

[paullcr]

your wheels look great. did you take the tyre of to do this. and a guide would be great idea

 

[adam cupra 20vt]

No I didn't take the tyres off because there 8.5's and there was a gap between rim and tyre so I could easily get to the parts I needed to repair and paint.........I could of quite easily taken them off becuse they do need changing but that would have meant paying the tyre man twice.......and I'm tight

I did these ones to on my old car to, from silver to white with a red pearl, these cost about £50 to do and didn't take to much longer.