Good place to get wheels refurbed? - Glasgow area

[Gdgd]

Hey guys,

Looking to get my ST's wheels refurbed and changed in colour, anyone know someone good in the glasgow area (cumbernauld)?

Ideally would prefer a mobile service that could complete work within a day if possible as I don't have another set of wheels.

Cheers,

G

[tonytifoso]

Familydub

[ciaranthemurph]

This guy is the man http://www.the-polisher.com/

Did these for me a couple of years ago





He did an amazing job, as you can see.

[FamilyDub]

tonytifoso said:

Familydub

These were the guys that did mine a few months ago -- 4x 17" strip, blast and coat in anthracite.

The blurb says they do same day turnaround. Give 'em a call

[Gdgd]

FamilyDub said:

These were the guys that did mine a few months ago -- 4x 17" strip, blast and coat in anthracite.

The blurb says they do same day turnaround. Give 'em a call

Will do

Cheers

[fudnie]

I can vouch for the wheel specialist too, they did my Elise and my mx5. Good service good results

[OperationAlfa]

The wheel specialist, who know they are overpriced....

I'm sure their work is good, but they started at £360 which was far too expensive (17's x 4 strip powdercoat and finish, tyres off and back on)

Then came back agreeing that their prices were high and dropped it to £300????

[K16SST]

We have used a few different companies and found pros & cons with all of them tbh. We use the wheel specialist (they do same day) but we prefer to balance wheels & check tyre pressures ourselves. Generally we take our customers' car in to them & collect it so we can do that.

[LindsayMac]

I have some light pitting on my GT3 wheels that I would like to be like new. Any Porsche owners had there wheels done?

[F3RNANDO]

LindsayMac said:

I have some light pitting on my GT3 wheels that I would like to be like new. Any Porsche owners had there wheels done?

Al used the polisher on his GT2 iirc.

[993AL]

F3RNANDO said:

LindsayMac said:

I have some light pitting on my GT3 wheels that I would like to be like new. Any Porsche owners had there wheels done?

Al used the polisher on his GT2 iirc.

Correct Baz, I haven't bonded with the colour change yet but Mike the Polisher did a great job. He only does powdercoat or polishing.

[Terzo123]

993AL said:

Correct Baz, I haven't bonded with the colour change yet but Mike the Polisher did a great job. He only does powdercoat or polishing.

Think i saw you heading south on the M9 last Wednesday.

The car was looking nice

[993AL]

Terzo123 said:

993AL said:

Correct Baz, I haven't bonded with the colour change yet but Mike the Polisher did a great job. He only does powdercoat or polishing.

Think i saw you heading south on the M9 last Wednesday.

The car was looking nice

Wasn't me Stevie, was on A8 and M80 though.

[Terzo123]

It could have been the M80, i was heading up to Crieff from Glasgow in the wifes car around mid afternoon.

[993AL]

Terzo123 said:

It could have been the M80, i was heading up to Crieff from Glasgow in the wifes car around mid afternoon.

In that case

[ScottMc91]

LindsayMac said:

I have some light pitting on my GT3 wheels that I would like to be like new. Any Porsche owners had there wheels done?

the GT3 split rims on my 996 are currently away being refurbed by Exel Wheels who came highly recommended on the Porsche section on here. I was quoted £600 including the costs of having them couriered down to England. They are not due back until next monday so i will add my thoughts on the quality when i get them back.

I was previously quoted £425 quite a while ago by the Wheel Specialist in East Kilbride but at the time i didn't have the garage space to leave my car on stands for the 2-3 days it would take.

[K16SST]

For split rims and diamond cutting we generally send wheels away. We sometimes have loan wheels depending on the make/model/year of car. Gordon has a Boxster and had his wheels done not too long ago, I think the cost was about £360 (18') (but we split the rims, it costs more if they do it).

Again I've found pros and cons having split rims done locally.....I think it's worth paying a little bit more for perfection

[FamilyDub]

Split rims are a whole other ballpark, though.

I got my four alloys completed for £265 all in.

Dropped car off on a Saturday and went back for 8am Monday.

[St. Anger]

Another vote for Mike. He refurbed my uncles Mustang wheels and attention to detail was superb!

[johnycarrera]

Got mine done at wheel specialist in EK, £288 just blasted and painted.......

7/10 but pretty happy, smoked chrome centres with shiny rims