Inspraytion wheel refurbishers
 

Has anybody used these? One of my front wheels is leaking like a siv, so i need to get all 4 refurbished. These come in at around £60 a wheel including removing and refitting tyres. Lepsons are £400+, and spit and polish site seems unavailable. Any other ideas locally? Thanks guys.

Wheel works in Crawley are suppose to be good, Lepsons too,there are members on here that have used both, hopefully someone will post.:ok:

Sorry but not heard of the company you are asking about.

I think its a case of you get what you pay for tbh. I've got a set that I had refurbed at WheelWorks in Crawley and they did a good job, but 2 years later an i've picked up a couple of stone chips and the water's trying to sneak under the paint/lacquer. There's also places on the inside of the rims where dirt has eaten into the lacquer and can't be cleaned off easily.

Also got a set of PFF7s that were refurbed by Lepsons and the finish is superb. It looks like they use more coats of paint or lacquer which might make them more resistant to stone chips and dirt. Only problem is the build-up of paint around the centre meants the standard PFF7 centre caps won't go back on without risking snapping the pegs on them. :doh:

Spit 'n' polish did mine, via Whitehorse tyres in Croydon. I guess you could call them or the local tyre place to you and enquire if they use them still.

Lepsons are :10: they have done several sets of mine.:ok:

From my experience Spit & Polish are Sh*t & Rubbish.

You can save money by taking the tyres of the rims.

I think lepsons is the way forward, they're the closest and they refurbed one of my wheels before and it was a spot on job. I've got a friend that has a part time business selling used wheels and he has loads done by spit and polish so I would get a good deal there, but there is some dodgy reviews online and I'd have to drop them off. Just need lepsons to answer the phone now. Any idea what the standard colour is on the wr1 pff7's?

Obviously you have to speak as you find but they did exactly as per my brief and look the dogs.

http://www.zampa.co.uk/knight/P0000005.jpg

Though the car doesn't see the road much.

There's some meat on them tyres! Thanks for the link, would've been an obvious place to check I suppose.

I've only ever used Lepsons and Wheel Worx... As Steve said, Wheel Worx are good, Lepsons are better (Much better!)

Lepsons all the way :ok:

Lepsoms probably have the colour match on the shelf with the amount of wheels Big 'E' has!!!! :rofl:

Big 'E' actually pm'd me some details to help out. Sounds like he's got them on speed dial!

Yep :lol: :lol:

Just the 3 sets :whistle:

Lepsons.
Your looking at closer to £300 than £400 unless you want fancy finish or diamond cut.
Mine came in at £289.44 back in 2013 for the light anthracite finish.
This price including tyre removal, refit and balance.

They normally phone him, when they are in the area for collection ;)

I think those prices are a little dated.

When I looked recently it was about £370 all in, i.e. balanced, tyres refitted and VAT.

It's handy if you catch them when they do the free courier service... unless that's all the time?

I only live 15 minutes away so I'll drop off and collect. It works out pretty much £370 bang on if it's a straight forward refurb. Hopefully it will be and there's no hidden problems. Although the paint is awful. Looks like they've had a cheap job done before.

I am going to use Wheel Works in Crawley in the new year. Was planning on using Lepsons but they are just to expensive to do some gold 17 STI wheels.

Would use Lepsons if I had a fancy diamond cut finish.

I will only be using in the summer & will wheel wax so hopefully will last ok.

Used inspraytion twice, the first time was on my Monaro, they did a great job but when i cleaned the wheels i got a lot of little but faint scratch's (the wheels were gloss black so probably showed them more), the second time was for my runabout Honda when they did a special offer (£150) at one of there open days and they have been fine

Also used Lepsons a few years back and after 4 years the wheels were still in perfect condition

Do they sprayed paint of powdercoat ?

Lepsons are powder coated.

Wheel Worx Powder Coat as well E...

do NOT powdercoat WRX or STi newage OEM 5x100 wheels, EVER

Been doing a bit of reading on the powder coating issue, and it's very interesting. My car isn't used on track though, and I'm quite confident that lepsons are informed on these issues and their process is safe. Interesting how most of the issues seem to be on the 17" wrx wheels and the standard sti wheels.

Because they are crap wheels - inferior manufacturing process

Issues with heat and the powder coat process are old ones.
If Ferrari dealers are happy to use Lepsons then that's good enough for me.

Don't miss the point - as said - the specific wheels I've mentioned are the issue

So are you saying the PFF7s Prodrive speedlines, fitted to my WR1 are rubbish??

From reading the links in some of the scoobynet threads, it seems to be a combination of uneducated powder coaters and poor quality wheels. No issue that I come across was with any pff7's, just the standard wheels. It does seem that any alloy wheel can be affected though if the baking process is too hot or too long, as it can weaken the structure of the actual alloy.

Well the wheels are now at lepsons, and I have a nice ornament for a couple of weeks.
http://i1237.photobucket.com/albums/...9C33A0BB63.jpg
At least it gives me plenty of time to clean out the arches and the under carriage.

Fight...!

Did you completely miss post 23

Have a decorative plant pot surround

http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/o...0/22017fd6.jpg

Yep, spot on - so Lepson's gonna do the colour as near as damn it to original spec?

Yes mate, they're going to colour match the standard wheels. The one they done before was spot on, so fingers crossed it'll be the same. Doesn't matter too much with all 4 being done though. They'll be getting several coats of sealant before they go back on too.

I don't believe so.

My Scoob is a WRX STI WR1 with 5x100 centres..

To try and quell the flames here, Jodie was referring to the newage WRX wheels as fitted to standard models and the standard newage STi wheels.

I've seen examples of both go on people's cars. Not just forum talk, but people I've met.

The WR1 is a special edition with wheels to match. Jodie wasn't calling them crap and it's fair to say, those wheels are certainly not "standard". They're part of the special edition "pack" to my mind.

Come on chaps, it's Christmas. :D

Still a GAYcar :lol::lol:

Well that makes sense as to why so much care was taken over the accessories then, as it was obviously based on the stereotype of homosexuals taking more care over their appearance. ;)

http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/o...0/22017fd6.jpg

Nice floating alloys to go with the floating discs:lol:





You know your wheels are crap "E":sadnod: thats the reason you got soooooooooo many:five: ;-)

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