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How to repair wheels

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:06 am
by TheRandom1
Josh (opi) gave me this link, and it's VERY informative. I'll be trying this method on my wheels once it gets consistently warmer (hopefully very soon!)

http://www.8thcivic.com/forums/exterior ... r-how.html

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:41 pm
by Tam
Nice link. I might need to fix my bronzes because of stupid walmart and their tire-mounting.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:24 pm
by TheRandom1
Oh yeah, it looks damn easy actually... I'll be picking this stuff up and testing this method out very soon I hope!

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:04 pm
by contagious18
i am definetly going to try this

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:12 pm
by jake_tim
I don't think it will work on polished lips though...

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:46 pm
by TheRandom1
You'd have to have the wheel chromed or something afterwards, or you won't be able to shine that spot, good point.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:44 pm
by Swordfish2Cowboy
Nice.

Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:47 am
by Diablo0
I'm going to have to give this a shot on some spare R/T silverstones I bought a few years back for cheap.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:06 am
by Neon4Life
so can anyone vouch for the idea of using that putty to fix the rim like that. i mean when i get to repainting my rims i wanna fix mine just like shown in the link cause mine looks exactly like that. but to me it seems like the putty wouldnt hold up cause of the rim getting hot but idk.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:59 am
by ThrIsNoSpork
not if you use...


MIGHTY PUTTY! bwahahaha!

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:10 am
by TheRandom1
Getting hot? Have you never touched your wheels before? They get warm, but not really hot... Certainly not hot enough to "melt" putty off or anything! It should be fine.

I'm planning on starting on mine in the next few weeks so I can put them on when springtime gets here, so I'll let you know.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:45 am
by occasional demons
TheRandom1 wrote:You'd have to have the wheel chromed or something afterwards, or you won't be able to shine that spot, good point.
But would plating bond to that spot? Maybe if you mixed enough metal into the putty, so it will conduct electrictiy, but that in it's self is iffy.

Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:47 am
by TheRandom1
They do have a metallic filler, but I don't recall what it's called. I saw it on musclecar on Spike a while back.

If you're worried about plating you could try that?

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:07 am
by theTeejmiester
sorry to be late on this but i just read this,the filler that has the most metal solids is called metal2metal,its pretty good stuff :thumbup:

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:04 am
by TheRandom1
Good info, thanks!