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thinking of a wheel refurb ?


briaan65
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if you live in the the North East and you are considering having your wheels professionally refurbed, then I would wholeheartedly recommend a company called Bettablast.

Before I go further and give a glowing recommendation I would say that I have no part in this company although I do know the owner through years of using him.

The company are based in Shiremoor, North Tyneside and specialise in shot blasting and powder coating, I have recently had a set of steelies done, they were blasted zinc coated and refinished to a very high standard. he's also done engine parts, bicycles and three other sets of wheels for me. I will post pics of the wheels. there are hundreds of colours to choose from he even invented a process of making coloured chromes.

http://www.bettablast.co.uk/bettablast/wheelrefurbishment.html

have a look at his site see what he and his team can do, mention I recommended him, he might even give a little discount. He's a very approachable guy and very knowledgeable too.

Brian

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Y'know, depending on how brave you are, you could actually do this yourself. Obviously I'm not recommending this to anyone, because if you pay then at least you know they'll be done perfectly. However if you fancy a risk, you can do them yourself. This is the process as I remember it:

1. File down, using a medium-hard lovely person file, any excess metal that has been lifted due to perhaps clipping the curb or a stone. You should do this round the edges too but don't be too precise because remember you're taking material. Just remove any excess that really can't be done by sand paper.

2. Rub the wheels down using a heavy grain sandpaper. You want to take all the paint off them to leave the alloy material. Once the paint is almost gone, you could switch to a finer paper, but you should be left with an alloy wheel with no paint but a few dinks that are now fairly uniform.

3. Using inexpensive filler, go round and fill the dinks. Try and be precise, but don't panic if you make the odd little rough spot. Fill the edges too.

4. Rub the wheel again to take off any excess filler material. You need to use a fine grain sand paper for this.

5. Spray a primer coat as uniform as possible across the wheel.

6. Spray your base coat. One coat actually might be enough but I imagine two or three will give you harder protection.

7. (Optional) Spray a hardened lacquer designed for alloys. I think you can get this off eBay.

8. (Optional) Buy new VW badge to replace the old one, fit it.

9. Have a pint and enjoy your newly refurb'd wheel.

This is a fairly abstract explanation of how to do it and there's probably a few tutorials on the Internet of how to do it better, however this is how I remember someone else doing it.

In truth, you'll probably spend up to £30 on materials etc, so unless you're doing all four wheels, it really isn't worth it. If you are... good luck :)

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