Wheels too far gone for refurb?

[HenryHippo]

Reached out to a few alloy wheel refurb places and have been told mine are too far corroded to be repaired? One place said they could be acid dipped but would look rubbish again in a few months.

Any thoughts on here if I can save these, or do I need new wheels?


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[simon_harris]

they don't look that bad to me? I've had worse done

[shalmaneser]

They look fine to me, should be OK after some shot blasting. Depends I guess if you are expected an 'As New' finish or are not bothered that there might be some minor surface imperfections. There isn't even any curbing!

Also: I love Style 32s.

[DaveCWK]

Just looks like basic alloy corrosion to me and easily repairable? Yes they will have to spend a bit more time filling and sanding the heavily pitted areas but it's no big deal.

[HenryHippo]

Not expecting them to be as new. I'm pretty careful not to kerb them and there's plenty of sidewall which helps

[MightyBadger]

They will refurb fine. Anyone saying too far gone makes me think they are not good enough to pull off the job.

[HenryHippo]

MightyBadger said:

They will refurb fine. Anyone saying too far gone makes me think they are not good enough to pull off the job.

that was my suspicion, but wanted to float it here too

[Krikkit]

Definitely look like they'll be OK, although if it's a fixed price type affair they might not want to spend ages filling in the pitted surface once they've been shot-blasted ready for the next layers.

I'd be tempted to take them somewhere else anyway - they obviously don't want the job.

[gavgavgav]

When they are re-done, ask them to put the wheel weights on the inside of the wheel.

[NAAHD]

They don’t look that bad imo

Mine are starting to get similar in places and had quotes from places willing to take it on

[jeremyh1]

sand blast and powder coat

[AlexRS2782]

The late '80's, West Germany manufactured, deep dish, EXIP Mesh alloys i bought for my 205 GTI a few years back were in far worse condition corrosion wise than those in your pics OP and they refurbed (powdercoat via a local specialist) perfectly fine with no visible defects and are still fine on the car 18 months later.

The only thing the place that did my wheels advised was that due to the age / corrosion damage they wouldn't be suitable for any diamond cut / polished finish but powdercoating was fine. I guess if you were planning on having any cut / polished finish on the rim / lip done they'd be right to advise they wouldn't look good but i can't see why those wheels wouldn't refurb fine via a powdercoat?

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Tuesday 13th September 20:17

[rlw]

Those will be fine powdercoated - and last longer too.

[LittleBigPlanet]

rlw said:

Those will be fine powdercoated - and last longer too.

Yep, will be well worth it. They look in relatively good order to me.

[Pica-Pica]

Should be fine to powder coat.

By the way; I have never seen wheel weights on the outside of an alloy wheel before. I always imagined the tolerances were stacked up to make any weights needed to be on the inside.

[InitialDave]

Pica-Pica said:

Should be fine to powder coat.

By the way; I have never seen wheel weights on the outside of an alloy wheel before. I always imagined the tolerances were stacked up to make any weights needed to be on the inside.

My balancer does have a couple of modes for putting wheel weights on the outer barrel like that, so it's clearly "a thing", but I agree it looks very ugly.