It all started when I walked into the garage and noticed my rear tire was low on air. Upon inspection, I noticed I picked up some FOD. My tires were several years old and were ready to replace. So I ordered a set of tires and wnet to my trusted tire shop for the swap. The work on 3 of the 4 wheels was good. The remaining wheel was serviced by an inexperienced worker who damaged my wheel. See pic. They offered to send my wheel to a specialist for repair (N/C). My question is how will they repair it? Are they just going to dress it down with a die grinder or will they weld or preform some other action. If they are just going to grind on it, I can do that myself. Has anyone had wheel repairs performed and suggestions. The gouges are deeper than they look in the pics. 1985 original16' QV wheels Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
It's not that bad. I just did the same thing working on my spare. I sanded mine down with a dremel, and then had it repainted.
I don't know if it obvious from the pictures, but it is on the back side of the wheel. At least they didn't damage the shinny side.
No - I realize that. I used a dremel on mine to get it flush, and then had the whole wheel re-painted.
I would trust myself more than a specialist that may not have worked with magnesium wheels before. Smooth with the minimum removed, zinc chromate the bare metal, then some non-etching primer, and then silver.
I fitted 2 new tyres to my mondial, one was flat next morning. Turned out the metal rim had failed in way of the tyre bead. When the old tyre was removed it pulled part of the rim away, being a mag wheel the repair cost was more than a new wheel.
