Gaz Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 How much is the refurb setting you back, wanted to cry when I saw the refurb price for a set of split wheels. What kind of price are we talking? I'm looking to get my Clubby rims refurbed in the next couple of months..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge- Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Well, I took the 'cheaper' route and it still cost me £250 plus atleast 30+ hours of my own time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Well, I took the 'cheaper' route and it still cost me £250 plus atleast 30+ hours of my own time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge- Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 You try cleaning 136 bastard bolts. 2 hours a night I sat in my garage doing that in minus temps for 4 days straight. Then on the Friday rebuilding them after a repolish from about 6-7pm until 3am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Not something I'd want to do! I think I'll just have to bite the bullet and pay someone full whack to do it. Yours were in quite bad nick though which gives me a bit of hope I guess :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge- Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Yeah, and your lips are much smaller and not covered in paint at the moment. If the lips aren't too badly curbed, I'd just split yours down, sent the centres off to be powdercoated or whatever and polish the lips up yourself. They are only little, and with £20-30 and a few hours of your time you'd get them mirror finish very easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauly330 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 £300 for all 4. Tyres off, split, acid dip, painted lips, painted centres, panted caps, new badges split and stuck on, new tyres on, balanced. Cash only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge- Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Ah, painted not polished lips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 £300 for all 4. Tyres off, split, acid dip, painted lips, painted centres, panted caps, new badges split and stuck on, new tyres on, balanced. Cash only Polished FTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauly330 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Yeah painted. Want to use em all year round and I'd be useless at keeping on top of the polishing - even in summer. It was £10/£15 more per wheel for polished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauly330 Posted January 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Some BBS RXII's that my mate had done in a similar way at the same place! Before: After: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauly330 Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 From this: To this: Crap iPhone pics aside, I'm happy with them. Decent pics on the car will follow when my next day off comes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz 330 Cs Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 You try cleaning 136 bastard bolts. 2 hours a night I sat in my garage doing that in minus temps for 4 days straight. Damn !! I'd of been sat in the warm in front of the telly cleaning them ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge- Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Haha Wheels look great, donate me the badges pleaseeee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauly330 Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 You want the blokes address where I got them from? Saying that I've got another set that I bought for a lad on a VW forum I'm still on - he's been a bit slow in paying me' / collecting them. I'll ask him to hurry up or just let me sell them??!! They're red too, 70mm genuine BBS for RS/RM's. The place I got them refurbed split them from the plastic clips and stuck them in with hot glue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jorge- Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 How much did you pay? Seen a few sets on ebay but can't really justify £50+ on some badges lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autosri Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Gaz I split my cs rims there are only 2 price ones and mine split dead easy get some nitromors on the lips and it strips the coating of dead easy then send the centres off to be painted or powdered if you don't fancy doing it yourself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauly330 Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 £45 per set posted I think. They were the only genuine red set on there in that size, but I didn't want to spend all that money on wheels + refurb only to put cheap copy badges on. I'll chase him up if you want though and if he does pay for them, I'll dig theblokes email out. He's not allowed to sell on eBay any more as they're too cheap apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naz12345 Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Wheels looking good Love those red badges may i ask where you purchased these from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauly330 Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 You may ask. I found them on eBay! I was watching them and also had a Best Offer pending, when the auction was pulled. I emailed the seller to find out why and he said BBS had complained because he was selling genuine badges for cheaper than they could sell them?!?!?!?!??!??!?? I then struck a deal, took a bit of a risk and completed the transaction outside of eBay. Two sets of badges turned up about two weeks later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naz12345 Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 You may ask. I found them on eBay! I was watching them and also had a Best Offer pending, when the auction was pulled. I emailed the seller to find out why and he said BBS had complained because he was selling genuine badges for cheaper than they could sell them?!?!?!?!??!??!?? I then struck a deal, took a bit of a risk and completed the transaction outside of eBay. Two sets of badges turned up about two weeks later So you have 2 sets of red badges? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauly330 Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Yep. Like I said to Jorge - I bought another set for a lad on a Kent VW site, but as yet he hasn't paid for them or made any effort to come & collect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
