get it repaired, australian road suck

looks like the rim caught the side as it slipped off, sucks. but that'll teach you to put chromies on a lib

You pop the question at home?

P.s i heared from a lil bridy that chrome rims cant be fixed, somthing to do with the metal being too hard after the chroming proccess. could be wrong, but somthing to think about (Shadow chrome, or Black FTW )

Damn roads, dunno about other states but they are especially bad in certain places in the adelaide hills. There will be a pot hole or rough patch for weeks, then it will get a "quick fix", in other words just dump a heap of bituman in it so it goes from being concave to convex, then a few weeks later back to concave then after rain back to the pothole. Pretty annoying but it sure keeps you on your toes.
Bad luck about the rim by the way.

the wheel cost be 370 ish i think... and ive only looked at repair as an option, but being ready to cough up for the total cost.. thats a today job..

im putting the other sparey on the back today.. so im running two and two, that should be ok shouldnt it?

and paul, no i havent end of the week... and piss off cause i know your jealous :beee:  ha ha

and sorry bout the pics, the first one doesnt really show the depth.. would at least have to be 4, maybe 5 inches off the gravel... damn road...

atleast i wasnt the only one. i hit a pot hole and took a chunk out of the sidewall and bashed in the side of the rim. looks like gutter rash, but i know i didnt hit anything else.

i had a smash in my ford a while ago, and dinted my rim pretty badly, $180, fully repaired, repainted and balanced. looked better than the other 3. in melbourne, gimme a pm if u want details

You're a dumb ass if you chuck it away. I reckon thats an easy fix because its on the inside of the rim. Call the guys at Albion wheel repairs, $150-200 for sure.

I agree , that wheel could be re rolled and then have a matching spare .

Suprauc wrote:

some one told me that repairing chrome rims could be dangerous, as the chroming prosses heats the metal and makes it hard/fragile. and repairing it could result in cracking/shattering apon hitting nother large pot hole.

just a quick update for you all...

decided to go the "safer" option and just fork out for a new wheel.. i was getting mixed opinions of what to do and weather it was do able..

so i bit the bullet and forked out the mulah..

jarrod gave me the details of a mob down the goldy, that have quoted me a half decent price for repair, so i will go see them, and just have myself a 5th spare.

ol mate said he can do it in a day, which is better than the 4 week turn around time told by others.. so i will take it down to him, catch up with jarrod, which he doesnt know about yet, and pick it up later on.. ha ha

and just leave it covered up in the boot, for when i need it..

turns out, that the front wheel copped some damge too, not as severe, but bad enough... its still ok, just a few deep scrathes.. and a very very very slight ding...

all in all.... all is good

liber8ed wrote:

just a quick update for you all...
decided to go the "safer" option and just fork out for a new wheel.. i was getting mixed opinions of what to do and weather it was do able..
so i bit the bullet and forked out the mulah..
jarrod gave me the details of a mob down the goldy, that have quoted me a half decent price for repair, so i will go see them, and just have myself a 5th spare.
ol mate said he can do it in a day, which is better than the 4 week turn around time told by others.. so i will take it down to him, catch up with jarrod, which he doesnt know about yet, and pick it up later on.. ha ha
and just leave it covered up in the boot, for when i need it..
turns out, that the front wheel copped some damge too, not as severe, but bad enough... its still ok, just a few deep scrathes.. and a very very very slight ding...
all in all.... all is good

Suprauc wrote:

hmm the fact that he run off the road might hurt that...

SOO081 wrote:

why?
"...I swerved to avoid hitting a *insert chosen fluffy and cuddly Australian native fauna here.*"