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Alloy Car Wheels - Repairable?
Pete W.:
Hi there, all,
A friend had two new tyres fitted to her Mini. It has alloy wheels. She then fell out with the tyre place over some other work.
She subsequently went to another car repairer to have them perform the annual MOT test. The car passed but the tester posted an 'advisory' that the inner rims of the two wheels with the new tyres are deformed. (Sorry, no photos.) Both the two new tyres are suffering a very slow leak. It seems likely that the rim damage was caused by incompetent handling of the tyre removal/refitting equipment but because of the elapsed time and the subsequent dispute with the tyre fitters, she feels unable/unwilling to have any further dealings with them! Her first fear was that she would have to buy new alloys.
I don't know whether the wheels concerned are aluminium or aluminium/magnesium and I don't know whether the tyre fitters attempted to 'cure' the rim damage.
My question is this: is it feasible to repair rim damage on alloy wheels?
seadog:
I don't see why not. I had a significant dent in the rim of my Kawasaki front wheel sorted out many years ago.
Jo:
When I had a damaged alloy on my car a original replacement cost less than the tyre that was fitted to it. By the time someone has been paid to remove the tyre, someone else paid to "fix" it and then someone else paid to put the tyre back on (not having the car available in the mean time :bang: ) and then balance it, and you are left with something that is very important for safety that is not 100%. Is it worth it? :coffee:
Car alloy wheels are made of a very nice aluminium for making model engine castings out of :thumbup:
Jo
AdeV:
Interesting to know.... I have a number of spare alloy wheels (mostly for cars I no longer have)....
Need to get the foundry going.... (project #417B part 2, on about page 17 of the "Book of Ongoing Projects") :borg:
Pete.:
Maidstone Motoliner will fix those wheels. It's what they do.
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