Things That Gladden The Heart

[Lord Tyrion]

Yes

I came very close to needing a new wheel having gone down one I missed. Only found out when needing the tyre replaced due to normal wear. The tyre company gave me the name of the company to repair it - all done for £30 instead of £300 for a new wheel.

Crikey, what car do you have that needs a £300 wheel

 

[Imurg]

Crikey, what car do you have that needs a £300 wheel

Many alloys are this much...if you damage one, trying to get a matching replacement is hard so you're likely to have to go to the manufacturer
A set of 4 alloys from Ford can easily set you back 1200 notes......
I had a damaged one on one of my C3 training cars..the tyre went and they couldn't get the new one on because the rim had warped.
Fortunately the scrap yard down the road had one that matched and it cost me 40 quid....
Alloys ain't cheap

 

[GreiginFife]

Crikey, what car do you have that needs a £300 wheel

£300 for an alloy is quite low end of the scale.

Wheels on cars are getting bigger all the time, it’s now fairly common for a passenger car to have 19 or 20 inch alloys, unheard of even 10 uears ago.

With that increased size comes increased cost.
I’ll cry bloody tears if my forged 19s get damaged…

 

[Tashyboy]

So coming back from me mums yesterday I passed a car half on and half off the kerb just after a small roundabout. I thought that’s odd. But Both drivers side wheels as flat as a pancake. I mentioned to missis T “there’s a Grands worth of damage if them Alloys are damaged”.
They didn’t look good.