Hi Gang,
Who’s the best company these days for wheel refurbishment?
I’m familiar with wheel refurbishment having had a good 10-20 sets done over the years (makes you realise how many cars you’ve had too!) and to be fair I’ve not had many issues either.
But the new car, my immaculate 2011 E63 AMG has the expensive forged 19” AMG wheels which have the whole face and rim polished (not diamond cut more a high-sheen, smoother finish) and lacquered with a Himalaya Grey (or Titanium grey?) painted recesses.
Like these:
19" AMG IV wheels in Forged & High Sheen Polished with Titanium Grey - Alloy Wheels Direct (632535)
The AMG logo is bang on the rim edge, not recessed at all but right on the very rim itself which obviously poses a risk for kerbing damage (!) and limits how much (and how many times..) the wheel can be machined back when refurbishing as the engraving is only a couple of mm deep at most.
At £5.5k a set I’d like to make sure whoever I use for the work is the absolute best in the business, and the car itself deserves it too.
I’m 50:50 about whether to use the place I normally use - they always do a decent job and at a very fair price (and are less than an hour away for drop off/collection) or to seek out somewhere who perhaps are known for their perfection and experience with specialist colour matching/diamond cutting and polishing etc?
I’d ideally like to keep to the OE finish as much as possible - some diamond cut finished I’ve seen is like the surface of a record and looks like a rainbow - not really what I’m after. More a very lightly machined/high sheen surface - like in the images on the link.
For reference:
BJV engineering - £78 a wheel
Pristine - £100 a wheel
(Both including VAT)
I’ve seen a set of wheels done by Pristine before and they were very good. Not diamond cut or polished though so not really much to go on for these ones I want doing.
Anyone experienced have a very good recommendation for as close to OE as possible. There’s literally dozens of places doing refurb work nowadays compared to 10+ years back.
Rimfurbish used to get a good report but I’d be put off reading about their timescales etc. Any other places worth looking into?
TIA
Will
Who’s the best company these days for wheel refurbishment?
I’m familiar with wheel refurbishment having had a good 10-20 sets done over the years (makes you realise how many cars you’ve had too!) and to be fair I’ve not had many issues either.
But the new car, my immaculate 2011 E63 AMG has the expensive forged 19” AMG wheels which have the whole face and rim polished (not diamond cut more a high-sheen, smoother finish) and lacquered with a Himalaya Grey (or Titanium grey?) painted recesses.
Like these:
19" AMG IV wheels in Forged & High Sheen Polished with Titanium Grey - Alloy Wheels Direct (632535)
The AMG logo is bang on the rim edge, not recessed at all but right on the very rim itself which obviously poses a risk for kerbing damage (!) and limits how much (and how many times..) the wheel can be machined back when refurbishing as the engraving is only a couple of mm deep at most.
At £5.5k a set I’d like to make sure whoever I use for the work is the absolute best in the business, and the car itself deserves it too.
I’m 50:50 about whether to use the place I normally use - they always do a decent job and at a very fair price (and are less than an hour away for drop off/collection) or to seek out somewhere who perhaps are known for their perfection and experience with specialist colour matching/diamond cutting and polishing etc?
I’d ideally like to keep to the OE finish as much as possible - some diamond cut finished I’ve seen is like the surface of a record and looks like a rainbow - not really what I’m after. More a very lightly machined/high sheen surface - like in the images on the link.
For reference:
BJV engineering - £78 a wheel
Pristine - £100 a wheel
(Both including VAT)
I’ve seen a set of wheels done by Pristine before and they were very good. Not diamond cut or polished though so not really much to go on for these ones I want doing.
Anyone experienced have a very good recommendation for as close to OE as possible. There’s literally dozens of places doing refurb work nowadays compared to 10+ years back.
Rimfurbish used to get a good report but I’d be put off reading about their timescales etc. Any other places worth looking into?
TIA
Will