Wanted!! type 107 or 108 wheels!
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Thanks for the opinions guys!
Here's the dilemma tho I use car daily which means tought to be without it if I take it back to have redone, they dont open the paint shop over the weekend! However they do guarantee all their work......... so for time being i'm going to run with it, but at first sign of corrosion peeking thro the paint, which it inevetibly will I'll take them back to be redone.
Normally I would be straight back but right now i need the car and its a lot of hassle to get it dropped off collected etc.
Danny, as i said before I have no idea if its been lowered or not, but the previous owner most def didnt, be lucky if he even knew what a lowering spring would do! Should maybe meet up with a11y if he'd be up for it to do a comparison seeing as he's in my area.
Cheers!
Here's the dilemma tho I use car daily which means tought to be without it if I take it back to have redone, they dont open the paint shop over the weekend! However they do guarantee all their work......... so for time being i'm going to run with it, but at first sign of corrosion peeking thro the paint, which it inevetibly will I'll take them back to be redone.
Normally I would be straight back but right now i need the car and its a lot of hassle to get it dropped off collected etc.
Danny, as i said before I have no idea if its been lowered or not, but the previous owner most def didnt, be lucky if he even knew what a lowering spring would do! Should maybe meet up with a11y if he'd be up for it to do a comparison seeing as he's in my area.
Cheers!
Hmmm, so how do they look to have been done?
Split, sanded back on the diamond cut bits, primered, sprayed hyper silver + same on faces, then rebuilt?
Insides look a bit half done, but the faces look pretty good from here.
I'm very tempted to do my own DIY, it's just the cleaning that these places do that is very handy... DIY cleaning is time consuming
Also, won't get the diamond cut finish, just do the whole alloy as per the faces (yours look fine from even a few metres and you can't tell the non-diamond finish, which is just a liability longer term)
Dave
Split, sanded back on the diamond cut bits, primered, sprayed hyper silver + same on faces, then rebuilt?
Insides look a bit half done, but the faces look pretty good from here.
I'm very tempted to do my own DIY, it's just the cleaning that these places do that is very handy... DIY cleaning is time consuming
Also, won't get the diamond cut finish, just do the whole alloy as per the faces (yours look fine from even a few metres and you can't tell the non-diamond finish, which is just a liability longer term)
Dave
BigChewy71 said:
I wouldn't do that. They created the problem and need to address it now, not in a year when they claim it's not their problem. If you need a car then that may mean them lending a courtesy car, dropping you at work, paying a taxi or whatever, or even agreeing to do it in the next time your free in x weeks time.
Still it's your car and money but if I pay top price I expect a decent job and errors rectified
Dave,
Looks like rim split, centres and diamond cut outer rim shot blasted, all sprayed with primer, including the corrosion etc they didnt clean off inner rim, then metallic coat on centres and outer rims followed by a lacquer top coat and then bolted back together with new stainless bolts.
I'm happy with the finish on the centres and the diamond cut part, looks great! Not at all bothered that its now a paint finish on it, better longevity that way, but i expected the inner rims to be shotblasted back to smooth as the outer rims were, thats the bit I'm peeved about!! :thumbsdown:
The same finish could be done DIY with the right key to spilt, a fine wire brush drill bit (for the insides) and then slowly but surely finer grades of wet and dry drill bits then painting. As you say tho very time consuming, but heres a little tip that might work..... lots of places do shotblasting, if you just want that done then the rest diy should be pretty easy and relatively cheap. I'm sure you could findsomeone to shotblast the rims for a 100 quid all in if not less.
Looks like rim split, centres and diamond cut outer rim shot blasted, all sprayed with primer, including the corrosion etc they didnt clean off inner rim, then metallic coat on centres and outer rims followed by a lacquer top coat and then bolted back together with new stainless bolts.
I'm happy with the finish on the centres and the diamond cut part, looks great! Not at all bothered that its now a paint finish on it, better longevity that way, but i expected the inner rims to be shotblasted back to smooth as the outer rims were, thats the bit I'm peeved about!! :thumbsdown:
The same finish could be done DIY with the right key to spilt, a fine wire brush drill bit (for the insides) and then slowly but surely finer grades of wet and dry drill bits then painting. As you say tho very time consuming, but heres a little tip that might work..... lots of places do shotblasting, if you just want that done then the rest diy should be pretty easy and relatively cheap. I'm sure you could findsomeone to shotblast the rims for a 100 quid all in if not less.
Yep, I guess plenty of places ignore the inner wheel (my bodged recon by the garage I bought the car from were half done like yours on the inside, but also outsides for me 
(fecking useless idiots)), because they think you don't see it like you might not on other wheel designs, but the 108's are very open.
They should be able to easily split them, mask off their good faces, and just blast the interiors back and spray. Another days work for them, but why they didn't do that in the first place!
£300 for a full set reconned, along with blasting the faces and edges, how much more work was it to just clean the insides while they were there?
Their loss, poor feedback too. Credit crunch times and they do a half job. Commercial suicide!
(fecking useless idiots)), because they think you don't see it like you might not on other wheel designs, but the 108's are very open.They should be able to easily split them, mask off their good faces, and just blast the interiors back and spray. Another days work for them, but why they didn't do that in the first place!
£300 for a full set reconned, along with blasting the faces and edges, how much more work was it to just clean the insides while they were there?
Their loss, poor feedback too. Credit crunch times and they do a half job. Commercial suicide!
Yep, guess who won't be getting my business now after seeing this :thumbsdown:Mr Whippy said:
I'm lucky (so far) in that my lips aren't corroding although they are scuffed to buggery around the outer edge. But it's the inner surface on mine, i.e. the ones this place haven't targetted, that need the attention on mine. For half that price I'm still more keen on splitting them myself and having them powdercoated...
And aye BigChewy, happy to meet up sometime and compare heights!
Yep A11y, exactly. Not a good business plan to do less of a job than you could for very little extra effort. Ie, after ALL that hard work, getting the car/wheels for a few days etc, cleaning the interiors was 30 mins extra work :roll:
I really would stay away from powdercoating though, especially for the faces as the finish doesn't coat well on corners etc. I've never seen a good powdercoat finish. Faces of spokes fine, around details/tighter radii, less than impressed
Again, problem as always is being without wheels for a while. £300 on some average 17's with ok tyres makes alot of sense just to run around on for a few weeks, then sell on, or keep as spares/winter wheels while you get a good recon job done!
Dave
I really would stay away from powdercoating though, especially for the faces as the finish doesn't coat well on corners etc. I've never seen a good powdercoat finish. Faces of spokes fine, around details/tighter radii, less than impressed
Again, problem as always is being without wheels for a while. £300 on some average 17's with ok tyres makes alot of sense just to run around on for a few weeks, then sell on, or keep as spares/winter wheels while you get a good recon job done!
Dave
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Looking to DIY my 108's soon, just knowing what paint/laquer to use ?