darren_edwards

Help !!!

I have taken off a wheel to get a slow puncture fixed and discovered the cause is a dent in the inner rim. Guess this was the result of a recent encounter with a large pot hole during the floods.

Anyone know whether this kind of damage can be repaired effectively ?

sunilp

Hard, if not impossible? to repair a flat spot, best to replace it.

Sunil

GrahamF

I had the same problem last year. Micheldever Tyres will attempt a repair at a very reasonable price (I think it was £20). If its just a flat spot it may work, but damage on the inside rim normally puts the wheel out of true and the repair will only make it round, not concentric again. In other words, it won't leak but it won't spin true. In my case that happened, and Micheldever didn't make any charge.

Graham

DanTheMan

I had a Speedline alloy that was dented and cracked, losing air just like yours. A company called Lepsons in Kent welded the crack (2 inches), re-machined the rim and resprayed it and baked it for about £30, it was such a good job that I got the lot done to clean the kerb damage up.
They have to be in a really bad state for them to be unrepairable.

Dave T-S

Stress fractures in alloys are not good news.....what's your life worth???

sunilp

Well said Dave,

Lepsoms, ah yes, the guys who damaged one clean rim when taking it off the car with careless use of a jack handle, and then painted the two kerbed ones so badly that i was shamed to put them back on the car - gave all four to Diamond Styling in N London and they did a pucker job.

Are Lepsoms still painting them in that makeshift barn?

You would not beleive how hard it is to find a company that refurbishes rims properly at a reasonable cost.

Sunil

Sunil

Dave T-S

Sunil
Diamond Styling were one of the first wheel refurb companies, been around for years, and i've only heard good reports about them

sunilp

Dave, you showing your age again mate?

Seriously, i know that M8, they were excellent. The finish was better than factory.
Thing is they charge so much to refurbish 4 rims that if your rims cost less than around 150 quid each then its prob cheaper just to buy a new rim!.(assuming their prices havent come down in the last 3 years?). They also surchage for doing anything less than 4 rims at at time!

Sunil

[This message has been edited by sunilp (edited 30 December 2000).]