Wheel refurbs in surrey/south london?

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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:43 pm

Can anyone recomend anywhere that does decent wheel refurbs for a fair price round croydon/surrey/south london area? Preferably somewhere where i wont have to pay using any of my limbs. Cheers if anyone could give me any info
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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:13 pm

Spit and polish in tonbridge? Very pleased with the results that I got.

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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:26 pm

Spit & Polish are rubbish
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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:31 pm

Kos wrote:Spit & Polish are rubbish
You can't just say that, Kos. Why?
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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:35 pm

How much per wheel at spit polish mate? Was it the proper dipped and stripped full works insides and outs? They look alrite.
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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:06 pm

Spit and polish did a set of staggered Alpina,s for me, i pointed out impetfections in the finnish that were liable to cause bits to prematurly peel/bubble. I was told the wheels are under warranty for 12 months so bring em back when they bubble. On a scale of 0-100 they were 80% ok. I would not use or reccomend them, they are SHIT!! Others may have had a better experience, but not me. I paid good money for a new "looking "set of wheels and they did not deliver or re do the sub standard work when challenged, therefore i come to the conclusion there SHIT! Kos got it 100% correct!
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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:23 pm

Pm dips346, his work is spot on.
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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:37 pm

Gert_8 wrote:
Kos wrote:Spit & Polish are rubbish
You can't just say that, Kos. Why?
Shit and poopish

They are only good for oem rims for a quick tart up, that's it.

Their diamond cutting sucks, they do not always re finish with consistency their colour matching sucks

I gave then a 3 set of wheels to do over the years

Set one, I said Matt black, they came back gloss and the diamond cut on the lips lasted 3 months before it started to spider

Set two, Alpina wheels. they didn't strip all the centre caps down. You could feel the wight difference just by holding them. They just scotched them down and re powder coated them
Dust on the lacquer and powder coat coverage was poor

Set three, I requested them to be done Alpine white 3 and gave them a colour code. They came back alpine white 1

Sent them back and they came back correct But 2 months later they started flaking

Now these were all straight forward jobs which they managed to fkup

If its a set of standard wheels that you want done in a standard silver then they should be ok however I bet that they will be average at best with the finish the centre caps will just be re powder coated and they will then not fit the wheel

would I want to trust them again, no never.

I'm amazed I let them do 3 sets

Also their pieces are expensive for the mediocre job that they do
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Post Sun Mar 17, 2013 8:07 pm

First two times i used them the results were perfect, third time there was a bit of bubbling, they offered straight away to redo it but it was very minimal so wasnt bothered. I got a trade deal so they were very cheap. These were standard bbs though so not very technical as far as wheel refurbs are concerned

Turnaround is a couple of weeks you might to chase them, think this is because they want to let them cure for aslong as possible