New tires mounted and wheels scratched.

[jon6.0]

Originally Posted by Camero5

I think I'll do gold instead :-) lol


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A dark satin bronze would look good on your car.

[Camero5]

Originally Posted by jon6.0

A dark satin bronze would look good on your car.

I had a wheel company approach me about sponsorship on a custom fit three piece forged wheels. Just haven't decided since it's not 100% but more like 80% which is great but the wheels are like 10k for the set. Was looking at a deep dish concave with the lip being color matched and the rest in gloss black.



Although I was joking about the gold, your right about the bronze. I saw one the other day and it looked pretty good.


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[jon6.0]

I don't really like black center wheels on wheels like that. Makes it hard to see the detail of the wheel. Color matched lips are a little much for me as well. What about a dark bronze center with black chrome lips? With black chrome bolts?

[KLR ZL1]

I also thought of black chrome on mine, but no one here does that. I would have to send them to California and would take weeks instead of days. That won't work since it is my DD. The factory paint just sucks and is very soft. If you look at the wheels when new they have some silver flack in them. The repair jobs can't reproduce that. I have been through this twice now with no such luck. I wish GM would have done them like the vette wheels.

[Camero5]

Originally Posted by jon6.0

I don't really like black center wheels on wheels like that. Makes it hard to see the detail of the wheel. Color matched lips are a little much for me as well. What about a dark bronze center with black chrome lips? With black chrome bolts?

If I decide to do it I'll have them photoshop one and see what it looks like. I went black only because the car is already blacked out.


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[TAG UR IT]

Originally Posted by Shrek

It's probably from the bar that is used to pry up the lip of the old tires to remove them.

Yep. Then that bar spins around the outer lip of the rim and can scratch the rim. I had Discount scratch two of my previous painted rims. I was PISSED. They fixed both of them but I was not happy at all. Same boat you are in.

The only thing I can tell you is this....tell them to use the touch less wheel machine. It's a $14k machine that a lot of Discount Tire centers are now buying because they are ruining so many wheels. I had to have them use it on my old SS with the old painted wheels.

Most wheels aren't all nice and shiny clean like ours. Most are all dirty, jacked up, beater rims and soccer mom rims. Nothing nice and clean and good about them. Most folks won't know. But it's a growing trend to actually have nice rims...clean rims... and their normal machines WILL deface and damage stock rims. You gotta WATCH them in everything they do!

[JamesZL1]

The dealer did the same thing to mine when they put new tires on it. luckily I had just taken pictures of the car the day before and you could tell the rims were perfect. They pulled all 4 off and sent them to a place to fix the damage. I got them back power coated, so they are more of a flat black now. The stock color was a glossy black. I actually like the flat black better, so I took them that way and am happy about it. I asked the Dealer why they messed my rims up. I mean do they not have the proper equipment to do this without tearing them up? He said that they do have the proper equipment and does not know why they got messed up. I told him the thing I was most upset about was the fact that the guy messed up 3 of them (not just small nicks and scratches) and he had to know that he tore them up and he just brought it out and parked it like nothing ever happened.

[AWSME SS]

Crappy tire shops for ya. I go to the one with a hand free tire mounting machine and tire and wheel specialists who know how to remove the old tires without laying the tire iron into the face of the wheels.

[SwaeOcean]

10k seems like a very high price for a 3 piece. You can get quality one piece forged for 5k a set.

Ive had places change with no damage and others that take chunks out of the lip. Ridiculousness! Whatever you do, don't "drop it off". Sit and watch it get done.

[Camero5]

Just picked up the car from GY and here are the results. Let me know what you think or what you would do. They want me to bring it back to drop off so they can take the wheels back for another repair. BTW while I was watching from the outside I witnessed the following:

1. Technician leaning across my hood writing on his form, found light scratches where he was at. Keep in mind, I had my car clayed, detailed, and polished about two weeks ago so I'm positive nothing was there.

2. They mounted my 20x11 with the 285 in the front and 20x10 with the 305 in the rear

3. My TPMS is reading wrong. Simple relearn but it wasn't done.

4. 48 PSI in one tire while others are 39



5. While a tech was admiring my car, he mentioned on the inner rim was badly scratched during the remount. He bit his tongue when I was like "what?" Then he was like "oh, they didn't tell you? Shit, I probably need to shut up?"

6. Paint on wheels are no where near OEM. Looks like they went with some metallic gloss black. Looks more grey because of the metallic

7. Some rough edges on the other edge of the rim.

8. Ripple (paint run off maybe) on the outer edge of the rim

9. Large fist size dent above the passenger front wheel well. I can't pin it on them because I found it after I got home from the first visit and didn't notice it after walk around but the car went from them to the garage and back so I can't think of any other place. There is no scratches, paint transfer, or any paint damage, so looks to me like someone put their hand there and put enough pressure to push it in.

I'm not trying to bash them, I'm just frustrated that I can't get my car serviced without walking out with more issues and a headache. You would think you can get the best quality and service when walking into a dealer or top brand tire shop. While outside looking at the repaired wheels, the assistant manager confessed and said if he would have been the one who interfaced with me that he would have refused to service the car because they do not have the proper equipment nor techs trained to work with wheels/cars like ours.

I'm stuck, I didn't trust them with the repair and I sure in hell do not trust them for a third time. You'd also think these repair shops would do a quality check and catch these obvious defects. I've lost my OEM warranty so any paint issues down the road are on them but in reality it will be on me.

Do you think I should give them another chance? Going to another GY won't be any better. Or should I ask for their district manager and ask for new wheels?


Paint - Black Metallic





Ripple in edge - doesn't look as bad as it really is.



Roughness in paint - on all wheels



Before pictures of paint





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[KKM]

This is such bull shit. In two months I will be installing a wheel balancer in my machine shop. I already have a mounting machine. None of these guys will ever touch my wheels. I have $1000. wheels on my track bike and nobody touches them either.
Kevin

[Todd in Vancouver]

Originally Posted by TAG UR IT

Yep. Then that bar spins around the outer lip of the rim and can scratch the rim. I had Discount scratch two of my previous painted rims. I was PISSED. They fixed both of them but I was not happy at all. Same boat you are in.

The only thing I can tell you is this....tell them to use the touch less wheel machine. It's a $14k machine that a lot of Discount Tire centers are now buying because they are ruining so many wheels. I had to have them use it on my old SS with the old painted wheels.

Most wheels aren't all nice and shiny clean like ours. Most are all dirty, jacked up, beater rims and soccer mom rims. Nothing nice and clean and good about them. Most folks won't know. But it's a growing trend to actually have nice rims...clean rims... and their normal machines WILL deface and damage stock rims. You gotta WATCH them in everything they do!

Exactly, the better machines cost a lot and most shops don't spend the big cash for them because it takes so long for it to pay back. And I agree that 90% of the jobs it doesn't matter.

This Winter I'm getting all 4 of my ZL black rims powder coated by my guy who does the powder coating work for my '67 and it'll be a 100X better than the job GM did. You may want to consider going that route instead of painting them.

[Camero5]

Originally Posted by Todd in Vancouver

Exactly, the better machines cost a lot and most shops don't spend the big cash for them because it takes so long for it to pay back. And I agree that 90% of the jobs it doesn't matter.



This Winter I'm getting all 4 of my ZL black rims powder coated by my guy who does the powder coating work for my '67 and it'll be a 100X better than the job GM did. You may want to consider going that route instead of painting them.

I guess that is always an option down the road. I'm still deciding if I should keep it as is and move on or make them correct the slight defects and paint since is metallic black and not flat back.


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[Ron_Robinson1]

Originally Posted by jon6.0