buckled wheels

oongie · Postby **oongie** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:29 am

Hi all,

just bought a 2nd hand set of wheels real cheap...
But once taking them home found out one had a really nasty buckle in it.

Anybody know of a cheap place in the Sydney region.
Looking to get rid of gutter rash and all that myself but only really need the buckle fixed.

Cheers Paul

Gazbo · Postby **Gazbo** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:58 am

A quick google brings up:

http://www.wheelrepairs.com.au/
http://www.mobilealloywheelrepairs.com. ... pairs.html
http://nealewheels.com.au/index.php
http://www.alloypro.com.au/

Haven't used any of them, so can't say if any are really cheap.

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:01 pm

Theres a great one in thornleigh down in the industrial area. Repaired two buckled 18\" rims for me this time last year for $200 cash per rim. Did a really great job, dropped them off on the monday picked them up on the wednesday

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:19 pm

i'd query whether the rims are worth being repaired.. you might be better off buying new wheels than repairing wheels that cost more for repairs than what it's worth

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:42 pm

sliq wrote:i'd query whether the rims are worth being repaired.. you might be better off buying new wheels than repairing wheels that cost more for repairs than what it's worth

Haha i considered this, but when the rims were $800 each new, repair was a better option (18x8 RAYS forged alloy rims)

TieNN89 · Postby **TieNN89** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:11 pm

pics

is there anyway of looking at a wheel and tell if its buckled? even with tires on it

oongie · Postby **oongie** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:20 pm

AZNTieN wrote:pics

is there anyway of looking at a wheel and tell if its buckled? even with tires on it

If the wheels on the car, you would be feeling a *lumpiness* as it goes over the buckled section.
If its really bad you may be able to see it on the outer lip of the rim.

TieNN89 · Postby **TieNN89** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:47 pm

well the wheel is off the car now but the panel shop took it off i forgot to tell him to mark the rims

so now i have a stack of 4 in the backyard lol

not knowing which one is buckled and which one is good