AAAAAAAARGH

[AdamB]

Bloody car wash took a HUGE chunk out of my shiny new wheels! only been on the car a month too! Any body know of a DIY way to repair it? Halfords do a repair kit, but is it any good? Its sanded down now, so just looks like a chunk of alloy is missing, but still not a pretty sight :'(

[richandhazel]

OMG
Thats the trouble with these car washes, you don't tend to get any come-back. Hope I get time to clean mine tomorrow or I'll have to do the same..........not that I'm quite so worried about my alloys

[Justins145bhpMK1]

Car wash and cabrio?? your lucky its only your wheel mate!!

Halfords repair things are quite good, take your time and you should be ok.

[Golfgal]

gutted  :'(

I always use jet wash as don't trust any other kind of car wash. Hope u get them fixed  

[AdamB]

Car wash and cabrio?? your lucky its only your wheel mate!!

Halfords repair things are quite good, take your time and you should be ok.

I've never had any probs with them before - the seals are really good, I may give the Halfords stuff a go then, cheers

[kniterider]

sad to hear youve damaged em after all the bother and waiting getting em!!! never use auto cars washes or jet wash, a nice hand wash is best and no damage!!, shame you didnt text me adam i could have got you some titanium putty from work its the dogs!!, my mate sjust used it to repair a chunk from his bbs!!! you cant even tell its been there!!! if you have probs ill get yas a tub next week!!

[Dinky]

Absolutely sh!te that like! Stick to jet washes,or get ur own like me!
Hope u can get it sorted out n looking nice again Adam!

Dinky  

[Dizzie]

I spent most of the day washing, cleaning, vac'ing and waxing mine then the rear light broke when I was putting it back on  

so down to the scrappy to fix it and I was about 2 inches away from reversing into a parked car  

luckily I jammed on the brakes. that would of made my day if I'd had hit it.

[kniterider]

ouch !! good job u youguns have got quick reactions!!! lol

[Helios_Blue_Valver]

Bad luck mate. Sorry to hear about that. What gouged the wheel on it?

On the same note though. Top reason for not using them. About 3 years ago when I transferred to England I was going to use the car wassh on base and standing around it were about 6 teenagers with 2 more messing about inside. I pulled up and they all ran like someone set their ar5e5 on fire. I thought it funny and got out to see what they had been up to. When I looked at the side rollers that scrub the side of the car I found that they had streched out wire coat hangers and wrapped them around the rollers with the ends sticking out about the same length as the britles. About 5 each side of the bay. I was about sick. Had I been a minute later I would have driven my Audi in there and not have known until it was to late. Hate to think what it would have done to the body of the car. I rang up the plod and made a report along with descriptions of the kids and they were picked up about an hour later breaking windows in empty houses. Nice kids. If You are going to use the auto washs it doesn't hurt anything to get out and look at them first. I haven't used one since though.