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anyone have their rims restored and fixed all there gutter scrapes. Did you guys take them to a proper mag shop or have one of those mobile paint companies come to your place to fix them. any clue on how much they charge so I dont get ripped thanks.

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Lol I think My rims would need more than that....I read an article in zoom about a place that did it and they also welded up big chunks that were missing....might try and find the magazine (fingers crossed)

Duncan which shop did you use if you remember and what cost roughly?

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an engineer will put the wheels on a metal lathe and machine down the lip until its flush... they do a good job too...

as far as scratches on the rest of the mag if they are alloy a bodyworks can fix them by filling scratches and large gowges with a good body filler and hit it with 2k paint... 2k being quite hard... will bring it up nice and new looking... as long as they match the colour up well to suit the other wheels.

cost for engineer can be very exspensive.... but if you ring around you might get someone to machine lip for around $70 - $100 a rim (depending on size too, anything over 17inch will be to big for many lathes

bodyworks will fix scratches and gowges for around the same price...

depending on how damage your rims are you might need to do both...

are they bent? if impact has happened it may be out of round...

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there is a guy in ingleburn industrial area if your in the campbelltown area his pretty good and cheap as well...got my work rim done when i turned into the gutter n left about a 1cm dent...think it was $60 with pulling tyre off and re balancing it.

found it in whitepages:

All Mag Wheel Repairs Pty Ltd

Repairer-All Major Insurance Companies

Unit 2/ 39 York Rd Ingleburn 2565

(02) 9618 1300

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anyone have their rims restored and fixed all there gutter scrapes. Did you guys take them to a proper mag shop or have one of those mobile paint companies come to your place to fix them. any clue on how much they charge so I dont get ripped thanks.

I always us the magman 2/21 moxon rd punchbowl 9709-2686 greg boness is one of the best around. ive taken some real f***ed rims there that i have bought for peanuts and they look new when he's finished.

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