Alloy wheel repairs

Jun 16, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 14 Replies

Following up on my previous thread ("Punctures?"), I had both rear tyres replaced by new tyres. All was well for a few days, but the nearside rear was flat yesterday! I got it pumped up again, but it looks like it was the alloy wheels rather than the tyres.



I attempted to contact the Honda dealers who do all my servicing, but they aren't replying to messages. So I wondered about using a repair service (maybe a mobile one), something like

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Anyone got any experience of these or perhaps can recommended another one (south Hampshire)?


I took a wheel to the the place for balancing. They said they couldn't. Rim dent.

I bought a spare wheel from a breakers with tyre and put that on, and took the dented one to a place that refinishes alloys.

They did a nice job for £100+odd.

I'm disappointed.

I thought that the least you could have done would have been to explain how to repair the alloys at home using car body filler...

:-)

Nick

The last thing you want to use car body filler on, is cars...

Touché!

Changing the subject from one d-i-y staple to another: has anybody else noticed how the angle-grinder seems to have fallen out of fashion on this group?

Nick

I blame it on Putin. Or David Lammy.

Not with me. I'm just thinking of getting a third one, to save swapping between wire brush, cutting disk and flap-disk.

Its Brexit. Or climate change.

You think all the angle grinder users have severed arteries and died?

Ive not used mine very much at all., Car body filler though..i've run out of. Must get a new tub.

last week, I bought a battery powered one.

No, actually it's Trump. That's today, he'll be off doing something else tomorrow.

ATM, he seems busy threatening Iran with extinction. That is bound to end well.

I've got a tub which I bought in the 1970s. I can let you have it for a very modest sum.

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