Alloy wheels, life after death..

[v64motion]

Hello PH'ers,

It is probably a dumb question but what do you do with old alloy wheels?

Story goes 2 of my old wheels were flat spotted after the snow, ice and pot holes of last winter and when my car was MOT'ed a couple of months back the car failed on the 2 damaged wheels. I have now got these replaced but what do I do with the old ones? I don't want to go an repair them (been told they are past that) I just want them out of the shed. I was going to take them to the local council dump but our local ones are run by outside contractors who are frankly yobbish and sell anything that isn't nailed down.

Any ideas?

[The Jolly Todger]

Weigh them in for scrap.

Sell them on eBay.

Take them to the local dump, who cares what they do with them?

[MarsellusWallace]

Old alloy wheels are scrapped and then melted down again.In a past life I used to buy around 30 tonnes per week of them!
They are made from an alloy called LM25,which has a high silicon content.Silicon on its own is a relativley expensive thing to buy,so wheels can be used as an additive to a melt which needs the silicon level raising,or melted on their own back into LM25 again.

[sim16v]

If you take them to a proper metal recycling centre, you should get between £10-20 for each one.

[JamieMatthews]

I had 8 scirocco scala wheels that I couldn't sell last year, ending up weighing them all in for less than £40.

I wasn't impressed at that price, but it wasn't me who'd taken to the recyclers.

[Roadru77er]

Mate of mine has one mounted on his garage wall with his hose pipe hanging on it. I've always dreamed of making a water feature out of one! Coffee table?

[richcorsavxr]

i gave mine to the s when they came round looking for scrap metal

well i've just learnt something new, didn't realise you couldn't say s on here.......... gypsys then

[Superhoop]

If you end up going down the 'taking them to the coucil tip' route, just cut through a spoke, or drill a reall big hole in them so they are useless, and can't be sold on

[v64motion]

Think I will weigh them in at the scrap metal dealers instead, may as well cut out the middleman and pocket any cash!

Cheers.

[MarsellusWallace]

You should be getting around £1 per kilo for alloy rims,but if you can make sure you strip off any lead weights-some yards knock you a little if you dont