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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: wesbar on 04 September 2016, 16:10
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Got my car a few days ago and thought I'd try out the park assist today. Big mistake! It managed to kerb my front alloy. It is only a small scuff around 1 inch long but I'm gutted. Any advice on fixing this? I was thinking of rubbing it down and lacquering? Cheers.
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Bad luck wesbar :sad: I've managed to lightly kerb two of my alloys, pretty similar to yours, all on my own without any technological assistance :cool: I'm working on the basis that it's bound to happen again and that the dreaded white worm will set in at some point so I will get them all properly refurbed at around 3 years old. As annoying as it is, such minor damage is mostly obscured by brake dust or muck so I'm happy(ish) to live with it for now!
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Your right. If the car was a few months old I 'd be less arsed. Its probably a blessing it happened on a low kerb as it could have been much worse. I thought speccing the park assist would be a great way of preventing my missus from wrecking the wheels! Gonna have to rethink that one.
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I'd clean it with some spirit or something that won't leave any residue then touch it up with lacquer, and try to do a good job, remember aluminium corrodes faster than steel so it wants doing quick as well. Things like that wind me up, but at least it would last longer before the corrosion sets in and makes a mess of the wheel
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I'd clean it with some spirit or something that won't leave any residue then touch it up with lacquer, and try to do a good job, remember aluminium corrodes faster than steel so it wants doing quick as well. Things like that wind me up, but at least it would last longer before the corrosion sets in and makes a mess of the wheel
Gonna do this at weekend. Would you rub it down first with fine emery and would you advise brush or spray lacquer? Thanks.
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Very surprised that the park assist put the car up onto the kerb, I'd have thought it'd err much further on the side of caution than that.
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Very surprised that the park assist put the car up onto the kerb, I'd have thought it'd err much further on the side of caution than that.
The parking sensors make your car copy what the cars already parked have done so if they are hugging the kerb so will you be very shortly !!
It put me off using it on my GTI after the salesman told me how it works.
Gutted for you Wesbar :cry:
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I'd clean it with some spirit or something that won't leave any residue then touch it up with lacquer, and try to do a good job, remember aluminium corrodes faster than steel so it wants doing quick as well. Things like that wind me up, but at least it would last longer before the corrosion sets in and makes a mess of the wheel
Gonna do this at weekend. Would you rub it down first with fine emery and would you advise brush or spray lacquer? Thanks.
If you rub it first you wat to be using paper which is so fine its smooth (like what they use when they paint cars), alloy wheels are soft stuff you don't want to be gouging them away with rough emery cloth/paper. Maybe even wire wool, but make sure you get it clean before you touch it up and you ideally don't want the edges of the old lacquer to be flakey, as it will soon start t lift up if it can move (remember the brakes heat the wheel and the wheel will expand at a different rate to the lacquer, if its flakey and/or you trap air (which will expand/contract) in there it will soon deteriorate). You don't want to trap anything under the lacquer, id use a small brush or touch up stick, get decent lacquer though you get what you pay for and don't get impatient (i had that trouble with airfix as a kid). Put a few coats on, and check it regularly.
Just to let you you know I've only ever done this to painted wheels before, so without having it cut again it isn't going to look like new and I'm not sure how good it will look but it will help stop/slow the spread of corrosion.
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Bugger :(
If it were me id have it repaired properly cant imaine it would be more than £100.
Something like this would annoy the sh!t out of me everytime i washed the cae.
Not sure where you are but these lads are in the unit next to me at work, there work is awesome
http://www.justwheelrepair.co.uk/wheel_refurbishment_services/Hertfordshire_Essex_London_Diamond_Cut_Alloy_Wheel_Refurbishment_Repair.html
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Thanks for all the advice guys. The car is back at the dealers tomorrow to have a scratch fixed that was present at delivery. Gonna ask them if they can do anything with it while it's in.
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To have it diamond cut it will need to go on a lathe, a dealer won't be likely to have a lathe or any of the other equipment required, it cost me 80 to have an old bbs wheel diamond cut at a specialist, i used it to make a table with a glass top.
That being a complex shape meant it took longer than yours will so it was more expensive. (It wasn't jus flat or a gradual curve)
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