monet33

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Valet curbed and bent my wheel and I didn't notice until couple days later so I have no proof. I brought my rim to a repair shop but they said it's non repairable. Anyone know if this could be repaired in socal? TIA

VTsuckah

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Wow, that's bad. You can always take the rim to another repair shop and see what they say. Unfrotunately, once something like that occurs and teh repari shop has to heat up the alloy to straighten the rim, the strength of the wheel will remain compromised and prone to bending again.

monet33

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I brought it to a shop and they said they don't want to take the risk of repairing it. Suggested I rebarrel the wheel or get a new rim

RX469

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Ouch. That's a really hard hit, surprised you did not feel that driving away.

Agreed, you should look into replacing this wheel.

Gville350

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And that's why I don't let anyone else drive my car!

DickH

If it was mine id try to straighten it out with a dead blow or with a block of plastic and hammer. I have done this before with aluminum rims and it turned out well however you have to be careful. You will probably have a hard time finding someone willing to try to fix it but it looks fixable.

RX469

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This is so true for me also.

My concerns starts with as simple as being concerned if people have allot of keys or tools in their back pocket(s) to risk puncturing the leather seats, and that's just entering the vehicle, to how they drive it, where they park and if they curb the wheels. Sigh.

Bottom line, when we give up our cars, (for the most part) it's just another car to park for a valet, there's no pride and emotions attached, it's a job. To us, it's our pride & joy we've worked hard to appreciate.

To the OP, I would suggest you get another wheel and err on the side of safety - first! You can keep this wheel to practice your wheel repair skills on or even a very remote spare, but that's it.

Boxnglove

Here's the nerd's answer: Aluminum has a low yielding point and will fatigue when you try to bend/stress it back into the original shape. The gouge is only the visibly bend portion. The real question is how run out is the rest of the rim. Have someone put it on a tire balancer and spin it for you ($10 most shops) . You will know very quickly if it is out of round

bob4256

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I would NOT suggest doing this. Especially if a shop told you that they would not repair it due to the possibility of issues with the structure of the wheel

DickH

The bent section of the rim is after where the tire seats and is slight, straightening it out is doable without worrying about the strength of the rim. The shop probably doesn't want to mess with the rest of the damage which would be harder to fix but depending on the aluminum is also still doable.

DennisMik

I hit a pothole which dented the rim front and rear. I took it to a shop that only repairs rims and had them fix it. They heat the rim up to straighten it out and then recoated the rim. It looked like brand new. That was a little more than 2 years ago and no problems.