1. Better Driving Experience
A vibrating and shaking steering column is a key sign that your alloys have suffered damage. This occurs because your tyres are making uneven contact with the surface of the road. Shakiness in the steering column could indicate that your front rim is buckled, while vibrations in your seat could suggest that your rear rim is damaged. Refurbishing your alloy wheels means that you will enjoy a better driving experience with no shaking or vibrating.
2. Improved Road Safety
Damaged alloys can significantly impact the tyre pressure, steering and performance of your car, which could lead to an accident or other dangerous situations to arise. If you don’t refurbish your alloys, the results could be highly dangerous, which is why alloy wheel refurbishment is essential to your road safety.
3. Maintain Vehicle Aesthetics
When you’ve clipped a kerb or hit a pothole, there will be visible damage to your vehicle’s alloy wheels. This type of high-impact shock will cause scratches, dents and more to appear on your alloy wheels. We can reinstate your alloy wheels to near-new condition so your vehicle looks good on the road once more.
4. Economical Fuel Consumption
When your alloy wheels aren’t functioning as they should, your engine has to work twice as hard to keep your wheels spinning and your vehicle moving, meaning that your fuel consumption will be higher and more costly. Alloy wheel refurbishment ensures that your wheels are functioning as they should for the most economical fuel consumption.
5. Increase Vehicle Value
When alloy wheels are damaged, they will depreciate the performance and appearance of your vehicle. Therefore, it’s understandable that your vehicle’s value will depreciate with alloy wheel damage. Whether you are selling your vehicle soon or in the future, reinstating your alloy wheels to a near-new condition both prolongs your wheel’s lifespan, enhances the aesthetics and boosts performance.
6. Cheaper Option
Alloy wheel refurbishment is significantly cheaper than replacing your wheels overall. If you leave alloy wheel damage to worsen, this is the reality you’ll face. As well as costing more, alloy wheel replacement takes longer than alloy wheel refurbishment, therefore, you’ll face a more disruptive process if alloy wheel replacement is needed. What’s more, alloy wheel refurbishment helps your wheels to last longer and prolongs the need for a replacement during vehicle maintenance.
Smart Repair on Diamond Cut Wheels
Two main techniques can repair your diamond-cut alloy wheels: with a lathe and smart repair.
What is a lathe repair on a diamond-cut wheel? That is repairing diamond-cut alloy wheels without removing the tyres on wheel repair machine. This process involves damaged wheels being put into a cnc wheel repair lathe where a very precise layer is shaved away to remove the affected area to leave a diamond cut finish, that is then finished using a specially developed lacquer to protect the wheel.
What is a smart repair on a diamond-cut wheel? The process itself consists of repairing only the damaged area by working out the grades and polishing the metal to give the same effect as the diamond-cut finish. Then blend chrome paint through the repaired area and finish with lacquer to protect the wheel.
