Rim repairs

[Gumby]

Mornin all!

Anyone know anyone who can do repairs on alloy rims with minor rim scrapes such as those created when becoming intimate with concrete gutters? And If so, do you know what they charge?

I recently bought an R33 GTR and the wheels it had in the showroom were nasty 3 spoke uglies. I asked them to replace them with the original GTR rims but the only ones they could get were slightly scraped.

Any help would be appreciated as these little things are as annoying as flies up your nose! Well that's just me.

Thanks

[Doctor]

I have a set of mags that need attention. They qouted around $40 for just the little scratches around the edges, and about $280 for about the worst "fixable" damage to my wheels.

Look on the yellow pages under rim repairs.

Doc

[Morgs]

Reckon these ones are repairable?

Equip rims, would be nice otherwise...

Poor quality photo...

[Guest Stocker]

O.K, I've repaired gutter rash before on rims....I get really cheap rims by buying them all scratched up!

Depending on how deep your scratches are, this process will work. I have used it on scratches up to 2mm deep. Anything deeper, and you'll probably need to have material welded in so you can rework it.

Remove tyres from rims(makes things a LOT easier).

Start sanding with a sanding block and very coarse wet/dry paper, I usually start with 60/80 grit. Work the paper so you follow the rim around, be patient, the early stages with the very coarse paper are when you remove lots of metal. You'll go from 60 grit to 180, then 240, then 600 then 1200.

Keep going to a finer paper(I like to do all the rims with one grade, switch grades, go over them again etc, just so you don't get confused)

You'll need a half sheet of paper of each grade per wheel, maybe a whole sheet of the coarser papers if your wheels are a bit mangled.

When you get to the 1200 paper, you have the choice of leaving it in the 1200 paper look, which is a nice brished look, or polishing. I use that polish in the pink tube, forget the name at the moment.

Allow 2 hours per rim and you should get close.

You may want to consider stripping the old paint before you start this if you have any old paint on your rims, any god stripper that's safe on aluminium will work, paint comes off aluminium easily.

Regards, Andrew.

[Doctor]

Morgs, they are the same rims I just bought off lixid. Bit off damage on them but fixable.

Doc