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Colin_E

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 North Hampshire
I'm curious to know if anyone here ever tries to fix small blemishes themselves? I've a wheel that recently got (ever so mildly) kerbed...but it seems way too trivial to get it refurbished. Yet I'm probably a bit too OCD to ignore it :D
Any thoughts or tips?
 
Colin_E said:
I'm curious to know if anyone here ever tries to fix small blemishes themselves? I've a wheel that recently got (ever so mildly) kerbed...but it seems way too trivial to get it refurbished. Yet I'm probably a bit too OCD to ignore it :D
Any thoughts or tips?
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:worthless:
Rob
 
Colin_E said:
I'm curious to know if anyone here ever tries to fix small blemishes themselves? I've a wheel that recently got (ever so mildly) kerbed...but it seems way too trivial to get it refurbished. Yet I'm probably a bit too OCD to ignore it :D
Any thoughts or tips?
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Surely if you have the skills\time to fix something you self then you can. If not then get some one else too. Only you know what you are capable of. I certainly fix blemishes on my daily shed. To keep it looking respectable. With the Zed I will go so far then get the body shop to finish, as I can't hope to match their level of paint finish. Never tried on the wheels though.
 
Touched up my csl rep rims plenty of times. I use a dremmel with a fine grind stone on the end to smooth out the kerb damage - the alloy is very soft so it’s a lot easier and quicker than you might expect.

Then I touch up with smoothrite silver with a fine brush. Luckily it’s almost a perfect match for the silver of my wheel and smoothrite is super tough being enamel based and needs no undercoat.
 
ph001 said:
Touched up my csl rep rims plenty of times. I use a dremmel with a fine grind stone on the end to smooth out the kerb damage - the alloy is very soft so it’s a lot easier and quicker than you might expect.

Then I touch up with smoothrite silver with a fine brush. Luckily it’s almost a perfect match for the silver of my wheel and smoothrite is super tough being enamel based and needs no undercoat.
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Nice tip buddy :thumbsup:
 
Colin_E said:
I'm curious to know if anyone here ever tries to fix small blemishes themselves? I've a wheel that recently got (ever so mildly) kerbed...but it seems way too trivial to get it refurbished. Yet I'm probably a bit too OCD to ignore it :D
Any thoughts or tips?
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Some refurbers will do damage repair without a full refurb, also some of the chipsaway type businesses will do repairs
 
I spent my lockdown weekends refurbing a set of diamond cut 437Ms. A fairly simple, if slightly labour intensive process for a home garage DIYer like myself and much easier to get someone else to repair. But I trust myself more to give it the 8 coats of 2K clear coat I wanted for extra protection :thumbsup:

FYI - I followed this guy on YouTube (CVR POV) which helped me hone the ‘how’. Moreover though, his business is repairs from his van so that’s another option for you!
 
Thanks for suggestions & links. I decided to wade in today on the basis that - worst case- the wheel just goes for a refurb. Doubt I can make things much worse.
Sorry to say I failed to get a 'before' pic. My bad - a bit too eager to get stuck in.
Results so far - very happy with the 'prep' stage. Got a very nice smooth surface... but first go at trying to feather in the paint (with a rattle can) isn't looking so good :(
I'll rub down again with some 1200 gauge wet & dry tomorrow for another go - but maybe it'll be a refurb job after all :cry:
 
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