My brother is looking for somewhere not too far from Manchester who can repair / refurbish the dinged alloy from his Calibra.....
He appears to have bought a Corsa 1.6 Sport for his missus and wants to put the Calibra 17s on it. Oh dear.
Anyway, does anyone have suggestions?
Cheers,
His missus finds another bloke? :)
only place i can think of is wicked wheels but i think there essex based, a lil to far :) only place that can repaire XKR split rims though around here! which is no help to no one :-P
Heh.... it was her choice.
AWR, Millett Street Garage, Millett St, Bury, Lancashire BL9 0JA
0161 762 0000repaired an alloy on my laguna privilege company car last month after I swerved to avoid a police car (next time I won't).
4 repair firms said it couldn't be repaired (lip of alloy had been ripped off 50% of the wheel and there were a couple of chunks missing), left the wheel with AWR for 48 hrs and it came back good as new with a new rolled lip. Cost £45 plus the dreaded.they do offer a call out service but I dropped mine off with them. fantastic service, strongly recommended but I can't remember the owners name.
Cheers for that.... I've passed it on via MSN for him now.
Only about 10 miles up the road for him, too.
You know what I should be writing now, "your brother finds a new missus" heheheh.
Yeah...they won't fit. They'll scrub the arches like a bastard and he'll hardly have any steering lock as they'll rub the inner wings.
Try snipped-for-privacy@wheelrepair.co.uk mobile is 07973 359009
Last I heard he was still setting up, but doing work, sometimes mobile I think.
Very little work to get 17s on a Corsa.
In news:1h6t04k.1xy49e7jiyufmN% snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk, SteveH decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
Proclean in Prescot is the best lot round 'ere I know of.
Still 30 miles from Manc though.
Aye, I don't think he'd complain too much about that to be honest - just wants a proper job done.
What sort of job do these refurbishers do? My Veloce (5-hole design) alloys are bubbling badly and I don't know if it's better to leave them or get them refurbed and possibly make things worse.
My dad had a set of wheels done. Old Jag wheels that had gone porous. They looked pretty poor - lacquer bubbling etc, but they still look spot on a few years later after being done. Some refurbers will weld in new metal if you've knocked chunks out of them, others won't. It'll f*ck up any heat treatment the wheel's had.
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