how much for wheel refurbishment these days?
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I've not had a wheel refurb on any car for a while but last time I did it I used one of the big name operators and got a diamond cut edge for around the £200 mark.
I've been watching High Peak autos on YouTube and he keeps buying cheap cars and doing them up. He seems to get his wheels refurbished for £170 and I just think that's ridiculously cheap.
Are there companies out there who do a proper job for around the £200 sort of price? The rims have an edge which should be diamond cut but I might just get the wheels fully silver?
Does anyone have any recommendations?
I've been watching High Peak autos on YouTube and he keeps buying cheap cars and doing them up. He seems to get his wheels refurbished for £170 and I just think that's ridiculously cheap.
Are there companies out there who do a proper job for around the £200 sort of price? The rims have an edge which should be diamond cut but I might just get the wheels fully silver?
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Guess it depends where you are?
There is a company local to me in South Wales that seem to have a good reputation and post before and after pictures of their work. Wheels are stripped and powder coated, so the job is done properly. Last quote I had was £180, but this may have gone up since Covid. They seem to repaint a lot of diamond cut wheels to standard finishes but I have not seen any of their work in terms of re-cutting a diamond wheel, they may not do it at all.
The company is NL Powder Coating Merthyr Tydfil, you can find them on FB. Not much use if you live in Kent though lol!
There is a company local to me in South Wales that seem to have a good reputation and post before and after pictures of their work. Wheels are stripped and powder coated, so the job is done properly. Last quote I had was £180, but this may have gone up since Covid. They seem to repaint a lot of diamond cut wheels to standard finishes but I have not seen any of their work in terms of re-cutting a diamond wheel, they may not do it at all.
The company is NL Powder Coating Merthyr Tydfil, you can find them on FB. Not much use if you live in Kent though lol!
there is McNealy Brown in Sittingbourne (website is powdercoatingexpress) Last time I used them if was £40 for a rim without a tyre. £50 with a tyre.ingenieur said:
North Wales now chaps.
Hi ingenieur,I've just joined PH to reply to you, although I've been reading the forum for ages.
I'm just outside Bangor and recently looked into getting my wheels refurbished. I had heard good reports of Dyffryn Nantlle Motors in Penygroes (between Caernarfon and Porthmadog) and called in when I was down that way.
Sion, the owner, seemed a nice, sound guy, seemed to know his stuff and said the options were:
- leave car with them, they do job (remove, clean, repair damage, powder coat, diamond cut, all as required), pick car up in usually 2 days. Quoted £400 for me, no diamond cut on mine, I presume this would be more.
- you drop-off the wheels (tyres on, obvs), pick up in 2 days. £360 for mine. He kindly offered to lend me some axle stands if I wanted to do this.
- he does a lot of work for North Wales VW/Audi and other garages so his van runs along the coast everyday so he can pick up wheels from customers' houses - you need to remove the wheels.
I haven't done mine yet but intend to go there in the new year. There were some finished wheels in his place and they looked good.
I did Google a place in Llandudno Junction which seems to be a branch of a company on the Wirral or Liverpool and the prices on their site seemed on a par with the first place I mentioned.
I don't know how much of a 'proper job' £200 will get.
I've no connection etc with the places mentioned.
Le us know how you get on.
Edited by Oldcarman on Monday 14th November 14:15
Edited by Oldcarman on Monday 14th November 14:17
Edited by Oldcarman on Monday 14th November 14:19
Oldcarman said:
Hi ingenieur,
I've just joined PH to reply to you, although I've been reading the forum for ages.
I'm just outside Bangor and recently looked into getting my wheels refurbished. I had heard good reports of Dyffryn Nantlle Motors in Penygroes (between Caernarfon and Porthmadog) and called in when I was down that way.
Sion, the owner, seemed a nice, sound guy, seemed to know his stuff and said the options were:
- leave car with them, they do job (remove, clean, repair damage, powder coat, diamond cut, all as required), pick car up in usually 2 days. Quoted £400 for me, no diamond cut on mine, I presume this would be more.
- you drop-off the wheels (tyres on, obvs), pick up in 2 days. £360 for mine. He kindly offered to lend me some axle stands if I wanted to do this.
- he does a lot of work for North Wales VW/Audi and other garages so his van runs along the coast everyday so he can pick up wheels from customers' houses - you need to remove the wheels.
I haven't done mine yet but intend to go there in the new year. There were some finished wheels in his place and they looked good.
I did Google a place in Llandudno Junction which seems to be a branch of a company on the Wirral or Liverpool and the prices on their site seemed on a par with the first place I mentioned.
I don't know how much of a 'proper job' £200 will get.
I've no connection etc with the places mentioned.
Le us know how you get on.
That sounds like very strong money for a refurbishment. I've just joined PH to reply to you, although I've been reading the forum for ages.
I'm just outside Bangor and recently looked into getting my wheels refurbished. I had heard good reports of Dyffryn Nantlle Motors in Penygroes (between Caernarfon and Porthmadog) and called in when I was down that way.
Sion, the owner, seemed a nice, sound guy, seemed to know his stuff and said the options were:
- leave car with them, they do job (remove, clean, repair damage, powder coat, diamond cut, all as required), pick car up in usually 2 days. Quoted £400 for me, no diamond cut on mine, I presume this would be more.
- you drop-off the wheels (tyres on, obvs), pick up in 2 days. £360 for mine. He kindly offered to lend me some axle stands if I wanted to do this.
- he does a lot of work for North Wales VW/Audi and other garages so his van runs along the coast everyday so he can pick up wheels from customers' houses - you need to remove the wheels.
I haven't done mine yet but intend to go there in the new year. There were some finished wheels in his place and they looked good.
I did Google a place in Llandudno Junction which seems to be a branch of a company on the Wirral or Liverpool and the prices on their site seemed on a par with the first place I mentioned.
I don't know how much of a 'proper job' £200 will get.
I've no connection etc with the places mentioned.
Le us know how you get on.
Edited by Oldcarman on Monday 14th November 14:15
Edited by Oldcarman on Monday 14th November 14:17
Edited by Oldcarman on Monday 14th November 14:19
ingenieur said:
I've been watching High Peak autos on YouTube and he keeps buying cheap cars and doing them up. He seems to get his wheels refurbished for £170 and I just think that's ridiculously cheap.
If he's a business he may be talking ex-VAT and possibly not including tyre removal and refitting. And presumably a "trade" price.For very plain 16" wheels, powder coated, I paid well into the £300's years ago with the Wheel Specilaist on the Wirral and they had to do them again. Even after that the coating came off in sheets not long out of warranty and they said hard luck.
Got them redone at Birkenhead Powder Coatings using a Facebook offer for £200. Was a bit horrified when I saw the place where they'd removed the wheels and left the car, but was all good and the wheels still looked fine when I sold the car a few months ago.
One of those things you tend to get what you pay for.
Just had 2 sets done. Set of 16" winters for the Mrs Audi. Cheap place locally. £180. They are a 10ft finish. Up close pretty poor.
My 18" winters done at a very well recommended place for 260 and they are flawless. I'd expect maybe 50% more for diamond cut.
Just had 2 sets done. Set of 16" winters for the Mrs Audi. Cheap place locally. £180. They are a 10ft finish. Up close pretty poor.
My 18" winters done at a very well recommended place for 260 and they are flawless. I'd expect maybe 50% more for diamond cut.
I paid £80 per wheel in the end. I've not seen the results. Been loaned some temporary wheels to roll about on while I'm waiting. The original finish probably would have a diamond cut rim but I did a quick calculation in my head at the time when dropping them off and the decided as it is a car the Mrs will be driving, it's going to be high mileage and a lot of winter and country lane work and the diamond cut finish is going to last about 2 seconds. So went for single colour all over instead.
I could always 'diamond cut' them myself using the car as a lathe if I ever decided I wanted to change the way they look later on. They're the kind of wheels you could do that on as the rim sits well outside of the spokes. It would have been an extra £10 per corner to have it included but for practical reasons it seemed better not to.
I could always 'diamond cut' them myself using the car as a lathe if I ever decided I wanted to change the way they look later on. They're the kind of wheels you could do that on as the rim sits well outside of the spokes. It would have been an extra £10 per corner to have it included but for practical reasons it seemed better not to.
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