How Do You Repair a Damaged Alloy Wheel

Now, nearly 90 percent of newly manufactured cars have been fitted with metal wheels. It's a really common sight to watch lowprofile metal'rims and elegant appearing silvered alloys on an average family saloon.

And do not they look great?

But a large number of them suffer from ongoing cosmetic problems: They damage very easily and very vulnerable to light damage.

Kerbstones, potholes and rough terrain are all the enemy of the metal wheel rim along with many cars fitted with them suffer from some form of decorative damage at some point throughout their lifetime.

It's simple to see the damage - just look around the outer alloy rim and look for"scuff" and"chip" marks across the outer areas at which the metal on average suffers hurt. Alloy Wheel Refurbishment fitted using metals incur this type of decorative damage and up until recently, the only alternative was to displace the metal at great costly!

The repair solution offers customers a quick, efficient and economical alternative because the repair job can be conducted almost anywhere.

A trained SMART Repair technician will have the ability to eliminate those nasty scuff marks and gouges in under 1.5 hours on average and at significantly less than 20% of the cost of a fresh metal!

Then, the damage onto the rim is coated and also ground using special alloy wheel grinding machine to combine the repaired area with the remaining part of the wheel.





The machine is electrically operated and allows the wheel and tyre to remain in situ whilst a articulated floating arm presents the grinding and polishing wheel into the rim.

One other significant damage is full of using an expert resin to reconstruct the form and shape of this wheel. The wheel surface is subsequently scuffed to permit coloring to stay with it. Once the wheel and vehicle have been covered to prevent any overspray, a high excellent primer is applied to cover the repaired area.

Paint colour is paired with a collection of colour swatches, or using the paint code from the manufacturer. It's then implemented by spray gun before a very clear lacquer is used to seal the wheel and give a high gloss finish. Infrared brake lamps afterward dry the alloy wheel. Once the paint is dry, then the wheel has been finally buffed to provide a gloss finish, leaving your metal wheels refurbished and as good as fresh.