Wise people,
We have a recently-fitted tyre on an alloy wheel (R reg Rover 400) which slowly loses pressure (perhaps 1 or 2 psi a day). We returned to the fitters who took the tyre off and showed us a patch where paint had apparently come off the rim flange leaving a rough patch which is their supposed source of the leak.
They were reluctant to give it a quick emery-ing (or equivalent) saying it would make the problem worse and could only suggest having the wheel professionally refurbished for about £48.
I must confess it never even occurred to me that alloy wheels were painted. I sense a vague smell of b***s*** in the air. Am I right?
regards
Peter