Aluminum wheels - slow air leaks

Huw Powell human747 at attbi.com
Wed Mar 13 16:02:33 EST 2002


> Try POR 15 paint,(stands for "paint over rust" dumb name great product). Try
> to bubble test before you take the tyre off to ascertain the approximate
> area of leakage. By the way this works only on aluminium of real English
> speaking stock not the filthy aluminum Yankee muck:-)

maybe on steel wheels that will work.  The POR, if it is anything like
"rust-fix" and other such products, converts rusty steel or iron to a
hard black material.  I doubt if "they" make such a product for
aluminum, or aluminium, or even aliumiunium!

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Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/

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