Re: Close Encounters of the Curb Kind

[Shaun Folkerts <fiatlancia@earthlink.net>]

The wheel repair shops you've seen advertised will have no problem getting your
wheel back to new. But you won't have to dismount it, pack, and ship it across
the country to them; there are plenty of local shops that can do the work. You
are upstate, but here on LI, there were four shops I checked out before I
decided on one of them to repair and polish the wheels on one of my Spiders (not
T*rs*n, guys, calm down...). There were many to choose from before I narrowed it
to those four.
One wheel had a huge chunk of lip missing, and another had a deep scratch. They
came back looking incredible. Never looked close to that good new. Check the
yellow pages, online directory, or ask your tire shop who they use. If you run
into a dead end, email me directly and I'll give you the info for the shop I
used.
As always, HTH
Shaun Folkerts
'89 2CQW with dirty factory BBS-like alloys
'85.5 Pininfarina Spidereuropa with beautifully polished Cromodoras






Alexander van Gerbig wrote:

>     Driving in Burlington, VT on Friday night I managed to bump a crub hard
> enough to make a chip/ding in the outer rim of my alloy rim.  Not bad
> looking, not scary or bent, but nonetheless I'd love to know what can be
> done to repair missing chunks out of rims?  I've seen rim repair adds in C&D
> and that like, any good?  Kind of a bummer to see the reminder on the wheel
> cause it was totally a bonehead parking manuver, anyone who knows Burlington
> knows the parking scene.  The parking is ridiculous, to many cars, not
> enough spaces.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alexander van Gerbig
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