hello, some help please. yesterday had a "great feeling" when was parking and scratched front rim against side walk corner. My new G-Spiders not as new now, any ideas how to fix it? it's not bad, but the scratch is on the edge of the rim and i was looking if there any good shops in New York that can fix it. Hope i don't need to get a new rim and tire from Lexus, they will probably charge too much for it. thanks for suggestions.

 

You can have a wheel repair place recondition the wheels. They will strip the graphite polish paint coat off to the bare metal, complete the repair to the curb rash and refinish it. Because that graphite/hyper black color is very difficult to reproduce and most places cannot replicate that finish. It may or may not be worth the trouble.

Here in SoCal wheel reconditioning places are common, generally you will pay about $180 a wheel depending on size and finish type. The larger the wheel and finish type equates to a higher rate.

 

is it a standard finish ?? (versus chrome) Call around to a wheel chroming place and ask them to get you a "used" rim. When they chrome the wheels, they can easily repair small imperfections and can use your wheel in exchange for chroming purposes.

 

yup, when repairing wheels like that, usually you have to end up repainting both wheels on the same side so they don't look awk