Buckled Wheel...

[Gavin.]

... can they me made true/straightend or will i need a new alloy. Damn cheap s**t Rota Wheels

also before anyone does:

 

[Struggler]

will probs never be 100%,
but refurb specialists can do some impressive things with furbared wheels,

but if theyre cheap wheels,
may be easier and cheaper to just buy a new wheel!

 

[Soot1e]

It'll cost you more than a new one. Very few wheel recon cos. will be able to straighten wheels as it needs a very expensive machine.

 

[The Boosh!]

I bent a wheel. Guy at a tyre place just bashed it straight with a massive rubber mallet. (wouldn't do it again in hindsight mind)

 

[Soot1e]

depends on how buckled the wheel is.

 

[Gavin.]

im going to pop down to a local place that i know does wheel refurbing on saturday and ask, it wont do any harm.

emailed rota and asked them for a price for a single sub zero alloy, it cost me £220 two years ago for all four with brand new tyres more or less and looking at the price of four on rarerims.com its not going to cost me far off that for one i recon.

think im going to be keeping a look out for some 172 alloys on here when i have cash, cambelt and water pump on thursday

 

[J333EVO]

Fixing buckled, cracked, bent wheels is easy for proper wheel repair place, it's what rally teams do when working on budget as magnesium wheels are very expensive new so repairing is cheaper.

Www.alloywheelrepairs.com
www.alloywheelrepairs.co.uk

there are others but these are two I have seen wheels repaired from. I've used the first one to repair some integrale wheels which were like eggs, and afterwards needed no more than 15g og weights to balance with tyres, they were better than new.

But only worth it if cheaper than a new wheel, or wheels are rare and NLA.

 

[Gavin.]

just been down to a place now and it was a no, its buckeled sideways. balanced it best they can.

new wheel from rota it looks like

 

[theduck]

Speak to Wheel Repair Centre in Preston, Naith will have contact details if you cant find them, they are top place and do amazing things to damaged wheels.

 

[nathanH]

iirc, you can knock shape back into them with a large hammer but the more you knock/hammer the metal the harder and more brittle it becomes so sometimes you can end up cracking it just trying to get it back into shape.

 

[Gavin.]

buggered the rota's off, picked up some 172 wheels earlier. they will be on tomorrow and the rota's up for sale cheap if anyones interested

 

[jcc47]

Lol. Gman - i was just considering buying some subzero's but you confirmed my biggest worry with them and put me right off!

What happened - pothole?