Damaged Polished Rims Advise

[a98pmalcolm]

Hay all.

 

For the past few days i have come down with flu. Im not with it at all and my eyes are just dripping.

 

As a result iv slightly curbed one of my wheels.

 

Normaly id contact my local wheel refurber and pay £50 for a spot on job.

But these have polished lips.

 

Is there anything i can do my self like take some time when im bette liker rubbing down the marks and polishing it up?

If not how much does it cost to sort these kinda marks out on poished rims?

 

Thanks

Paul

 

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/315/20100318004.jpg

 

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/7963/20100318005.jpg

 

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8740/20100318006.jpg

 

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/7330/20100318007.jpg

[pistonbroke]

That looks like a stainless lip, which can usually not be refurbed. I've heard of them being removed and replaced though.

[scotty71]

That looks like a stainless lip, which can usually not be refurbed. I've heard of them being removed and replaced though.

 

Agree with the above best phone a specialist

 

Nothing worse than a scraped alloy:( you took a chunck out of the skirt too??

 

Scotty

[MrDriver]

My brother once had a big dent in his stainless lip, hit a curb.

It was fixed without problem by a specialist company, did cost 150 euro I think.

So this must be fixable too

[Jas]

Hello Paul,

 

Let me know if you get anything sorted with these. i have similar problem, set of khans with a polished lip. spoken a couple of places who say they cant do anything with it.

 

Found out about getting new lips but these are 180 a piece from khan, and that’s not including fitting.. don’t really want to go down that route as i have more then 1 wheel thats scuffed due to a uh-hum... 'little spin' i had recently...

 

there’s one or two more wheel specialists i am going to try in the next couple of weeks. ill let you know how i get on.

[ScottC]

Try these guys mate, if they can be repaired I'm sure these guys can do it.

 

http://www.diamondstyling.co.uk/index.php

[Ibrar Jabbar]

It's definitely not a stainless steel lip, however it looks like a minor scuff which can be sorted for £25+VAT.

[a98pmalcolm]

yes its very very minor! i just like things perfect!

 

as u see in the pics the split rim bolts are all rusty aswell, was playing on changing all them in the summer! how ever i was.....also considering buying asome gunmetal grey wheels! like 19's or sumin...

[jihwaan]

The problem you have is twofold- the entire lip is not mirror polished and if you were to sand down the scratches you need to go deeper than the deepest scratch which is removing material (this is your second problem- not a big issue though in this case its only a mm or two by the looks of it). But yes you can sand down the area with some coarse (say 240 grit paper) to get the area at the same level as the deepest scratch then sand with 400 grit wet and dry paper with water- then 800 grit and if you wanted 1200 grit then polish but you will have to polish the rest of the lip to make it match in and I cannot tell if they have any sort of coating on them, if so you will have to get rid of that wth either stripping it chemically or sanding it down with 800-1200 wet and dry. easy enough job and I would do it if it was me but as was said earlier if you can get it fixed for 25$ GBP I would go that way.

Edited March 19, 2010 by jihwaan (see edit history)