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Wheel Refurbishment

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UrbanFlow
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Wheel Refurbishment

Post by UrbanFlow » Mon May 23, 2011 3:07 pm

Hello fellow X'ers.

Can anyone recommend any good wheel refurbishers?

My tiger claw alloys have a few scuffs, blemishes around teh valves and the insides are flaking - which I hate.
I like a good clean wheel.

I'm in Surrey.
Wouldn't it be great if someone did wheel exchanges?!
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Re: Wheel Refurbishment

Post by alex1985blue » Mon May 23, 2011 3:30 pm

These guys are good:

http://www.voodoomotorsport.com/

Cheers
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Re: Wheel Refurbishment

Post by sapphireblack » Mon May 23, 2011 4:16 pm

http://www.lepsons.com/

A eBay seller does offer an exchange service, though not all wheel styles.
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Re: Wheel Refurbishment

Post by paulmb » Mon May 23, 2011 6:50 pm

http://www.wheelworksuk.co.uk/

These guys made an excellent job of mine.

I have a spare set, so I dropped them off for a few days and they came back perfect.I chose to have them anthracite.

They will turn them round the same day if you book your car in, £5 extra per wheel for this option.

I saw a Lepsons van dropping wheels off to them!!

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Re: Wheel Refurbishment

Post by dubbers » Mon May 23, 2011 8:51 pm

Lepsons have very good write-ups on other forums, may be worth having a chat with them.
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Re: Wheel Refurbishment

Post by UrbanFlow » Tue May 24, 2011 2:07 pm

Thanks people!
Current Rides:
2007 Black X5 E70 3.0D SE - 7 Seater, Dynamic & Media Packs
1975 MGB Roadster with Rover SD1 V8 conversion, Offenhauser Manifold & Holley Carb - Straight lines only.
2005 Honda Hornet with Akrapovich zorst & other odds n sods.

Previous Ride:
2003 Silver 3.0i Sport E53 X5

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Re: Wheel Refurbishment

Post by Denis O » Tue May 24, 2011 4:59 pm

Used Lepsons a few times and they are always excellent. Once hit a pot hole in a 206 GTi and it looked like a completely destroyed alloy but they managed to bring it back to life.

Most recently had the XKR done and they used a slightly darker silver which was nice. They look like new but I think they're about £90 a wheel now and that's for 18's.
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