Bent Wheel - any options?

Bent Wheel - any options?

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TNW

Original Poster:

536 posts

201 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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My car is at the dealership for inspection at the moment after I managed to run over a rather large bit of timber that someone helpfully left across a sliproad on to the Emirates Road at night. They are suggesting that it needs a new wheel as the front left is bent. I’m not surprised by the diagnoses, but does anyone know if there’s any way it can be safely put back in to shape?

There’s no visual damage to the wheel and it only manifests itself as a slight vibration at around 65kph, so I’m guessing it’s a bit out of round as opposed to being square. The car gets used on track a bit so I’d rather not bother with a repair if it’s not going to be the best route, but a replacement wheel from Porsche is 7.5k AED. Any ideas?

e21jason

717 posts

218 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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DAS has a guy with a wheel lathe they use that can fix stuff I thought was beyond repair


I don't have the wheel guys contact but ring DAS and speak to Hieki

Chilli

17,318 posts

235 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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I've used these guys....my wheels are perfect.

http://www.wheelrepair.ae/

FlexRay

89 posts

134 months

Wednesday 4th February 2015
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My post from a while ago

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Worked a treat and only took an hour or something

TNW

Original Poster:

536 posts

201 months

Thursday 12th February 2015
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FlexRay said:
My post from a while ago

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Worked a treat and only took an hour or something
Many thanks for this, took the car there this morning and 400aed / 30mins later it's as good as new.

Cheers!

Randompunter74

642 posts

143 months

Thursday 19th February 2015
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Happened to me on theGt3. I called the cops, got a police report and got the rim and tyre replaced under insurance. I have no claims protection so made sense. Of course you can try to repair it, depends how bad it is