reddragonmd

I scrapped on a curb tonight , and stopped to look. there is about a 3 inch section on the lip with curbbage on the passenger rear tire, and an inch gap on the passenger front. Its night now, so ill see better tomorrow, but is there anythng you can do to help it? Like sanding it down or something?

robertdot

On the wheel (aka rim) or on the tire?

reddragonmd

On the rim. Its on the lip just before the tire. I was making a sharp left merge turn, and took it to close paying attention to heavy traffic coming i heard boom boom, knew i hit/scraped the right side on the curb, pulled over and looked. The body of the car wasnt hit thank god, only damage is curbbage on the passenger side rim lips. The rear is worse, which has a 3 inch rash spot along the rim lip. the front has a smaller one.

I was wondering if you could somehow wet sand it down, and buff it. I dunno ive never done this before, any ideas?

310Guy

Mine are all jacked too. Any suggestions would be great (minus, "get some new rims").

reddragonmd

from > 5 feet away you cant really notice it, but as you get closer and really look at the rim, its painfully obvious.

I bought a 30K car, and the stock breaks squeek on slowing down, and i have curbbage on 2 rims

Anyone have a fix?

RXATE

Happened to me as well. While I had the snows on I sent the stock rims out for sanding and polishing. Cost about $125 Cdn. Look like new.

mysql101

Local guy here wants to do a filler, then paint, then clear coat. He wanted about $50 to do the job on fixing a small 1" scrape.

RotorWheeee

For future referance where did you get this done?

reddragonmd

So thats like $2 USD ? :D kidding...

Im going to try to buff it out an work on it myself, but if it doesnt work out, ill send it out i guess. Im sure mazda charges 500$ for one exact rim

robertdot

THere USED to be a DIY on how to fix rim scuffs / wheel scuffs on the net that I linked to when people asked this question, but I think it is down. Ah here it is: http://www.performancescene.net/tetu-wheelrepair.shtml

I tried to word that so that when someone searches they will see this thread. This question comes up every few months / weeks.

B-Nez

If it is the standard "grey" rim, you can touch it up with Sunlight Silver touch up paint. If you have deep gouging, though, that may not suffice for you.

RotaMotion

Hmm...Bondo on a rim. Sounds like there could be more touch-up work after getting a set of new tires

Nemesis8

iTrader: (3)

Man, I'm an idiot! I just hit a curb at lunch. Small damage, but it does show. Sunlight Silver paint hey...

s13lover

Those results look great, but there is no way I would try it on any car because there are thousands of shades of silver. I can't believe his matched perfect.

Air Force RX8

Be sure to get the wheels rebalanced afterward...

AndyV

http://www.bmwtips.com/tipsntricks/w...uff-repair.htm

It looks like this is the same DIY that used to be hosted at performancescene.net.