How to repair wheels

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:06 am

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

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:41 pm

Nice link. I might need to fix my bronzes because of stupid walmart and their tire-mounting.

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:24 pm

Oh yeah, it looks damn easy actually... I'll be picking this stuff up and testing this method out very soon I hope!

contagious18 · Post by **contagious18** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:04 pm

i am definetly going to try this

jake_tim · Post by **jake_tim** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:12 pm

I don't think it will work on polished lips though...

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:46 pm

You'd have to have the wheel chromed or something afterwards, or you won't be able to shine that spot, good point.

Swordfish2Cowboy · Post by **Swordfish2Cowboy** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:44 pm

Nice.

Post by **Diablo0** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:47 am

I'm going to have to give this a shot on some spare R/T silverstones I bought a few years back for cheap.

Neon4Life · Post by **Neon4Life** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:06 am

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.

ThrIsNoSpork · Post by **ThrIsNoSpork** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:59 am

not if you use...

MIGHTY PUTTY! bwahahaha!

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:10 am

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.

Post by **occasional demons** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:45 am

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.

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:47 am

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?

theTeejmiester · Post by **theTeejmiester** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:07 am

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

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:04 am

Good info, thanks!