green_dragon Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 After swerving to avoit an object in the road (wet road), and fish tailing like crazy, this is the result. BUMMER Is it bad? or will it T-Cut out..joke http://www.showoffyourcar.com/galleries.asp?carid=1292 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffvalenti Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Compared with what could have happened, its not bad at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Betcha can't balance it properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Thats what I call a split rim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green_dragon Posted December 22, 2004 Author Share Posted December 22, 2004 One of a kind... Wanna buy it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerotop Dave Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 No, but if you decide for new ones all round I'll have the other three! (AVS wheels, right?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green_dragon Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 Just for reference.. Got the wheels back yesterday, £150 for both to be repaired and painted. Plus £95 for a new front tyre (nothing to do with the accident), removing and re-fitting both tyres, and balancing them both. Not too bad really. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Oi! Wheres my jacket pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Just for reference.. Got the wheels back yesterday, £150 for both to be repaired and painted. Plus £95 for a new front tyre (nothing to do with the accident), removing and re-fitting both tyres, and balancing them both. Not too bad really. Chris Don't think I'd trust my life on a repaired wheel, it would always be at the back of my mind when pushing it on a corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprarob Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Hi Chris were did you get them repaired ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelG Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Nightmare, nothing worse than bending a rim. I did it to an 18" Rondell i had on my Escort Cosworth and then found out you couldnt buy them anymore ! Good place up here has some massive laser machine that straightens slightly bent wheels though..........ran straight on the balance machine afterwards as well......superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 I eed to find somewhere that can straighten a bent alloy down here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Is there not a danger of having internal stress fractures in the metal after bending a rim? I thought new rims are xrayed to make sure there are no internal fractures, then again I could be talking cr*p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 I think repaired rims need to be x-rayed as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 I think repaired rims need to be x-rayed as well. Oh didn't realise that, in that case I guess it should be okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelG Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 As far as i know this machine does all that before and after they straighten it........good machine........it should be for £19k ! lol Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green_dragon Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 Hi Chris were did you get them repaired ? Rob, It was a place called Weldspec in Ollerton, on the Boughton Industrial estate. Do you want the Phone no.?? You can see the work on the 13th, and see what you think. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprarob Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Chris Its for the future. Just in case I have a problem I prefer to use local companies as much as possible Like you say I,ll see you on the 13th anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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