Wheel refurbs in surrey/south london?
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Rich2388
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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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jas025
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Spit and polish in tonbridge? Very pleased with the results that I got.


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

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Rich2388
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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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ajay
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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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bhups
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Pm dips346, his work is spot on.

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Kos
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Shit and poopishGert_8 wrote:You can't just say that, Kos. Why?Kos wrote:Spit & Polish are rubbish
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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tha881
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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
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
