bent rims

[Ttrak]

Can anyone please recomend a good place with approx prices on fixing bent rims. I bent them last night on a huge pothole by silver city :banghead:

thanks

[saiyajin]

usually how can you tell rims are bent do they start pulling to one side??

[Ttrak]

its actually bent, like part of the rim is curved out away from the rubber, its visibly bent on one wheel

[tapout]

alberta wheel repair:thumbsup:

[duffspec]

I went down there for a movie last night and incountered some huge construction pot holes on Country hills blvd. If your heading due east from deerfoot beware!!!!

[youngbex]

god damm potholes

[Freebs]

like tapout said.. Alberta Wheel repair is your best bet... they can fix any thing...

[ZorroAMG]

Alberta wheel ripoff ...ughhh...

Good luck with that.

[Ttrak]

Originally posted by tapout
alberta wheel repair:thumbsup:

Does anyone have their phone number off hand? I hope they can fix it.

[Mr. Burns]

Ugh... AWR sucks. I hope you don't want your rims fixed properly, and in a timely manner.

[Weapon_R]

Originally posted by Ttrak


Does anyone have their phone number off hand? I hope they can fix it.

No, but I betcha the white pages would have it.

And AWR is your only choice - no one else can fix it.

[CIVIC_MAN]

make the f'n city pay for it. my friend blew out her tire on a pot hole and the city paid for it

[Ttrak]

how do i make them pay for it??

One question, i wont have time to fix the wheel until next week, is it bad in the mean time to continue driving with it??

[CIVIC_MAN]

try calling the cities department of transportation and filing a complaint

[TaiChino]

Originally posted by mrburnsvw
Ugh... AWR sucks. I hope you don't want your rims fixed properly, and in a timely manner.

:werd:

Problem is, they have somewhat of a monopoly here in calgary, as far as I know, it's the only place to get wheels repaired.

I had a wheel repaired there through Kal Tire (it was cracked when I bought the car), not 1 month later the same wheel wasn't holding air again, took it to Kal Tire and sure enough, cracked. Now, I baby my car like I'm sure we all do, never cracked a rim before, and to have the same one crack again that soon? Kinda suspicous. Kal Tire doesn't deal with AWR anymore b/c of too many problems. So they sent me there myself, I had to argue with him for 1/2 hour before he decided to fix it again, all I heard from him is that his work is guaranteed, I couldn't prove it was cracked in the same spot, low profile tires have rims crack all the time, and I'm just going to be back every month with a new cracked rim. Whatever. He tells me it will take 4 days. 4 days! 1 month, 4 weeks later, I get my wheel back.

So as far as rants go, it sucks that they are the only place to go, and it would seem that they take advantage of this fact by lets say "not so good" PR.

[Talies R]

Santos or whatever his name is at Alberta Wheel Repair is a really reasonable guy, I've taken my rims there many times to be fixed and they always come back like new!!! Sometime's I'll get my wheels back in only a couple days!

[TaiChino]

^^^

Well thats good that there are some good things said about them. I'm guess I'm not totally bashing, only my experience was crap.

[Ttrak]

so is it bad for me to continue driving on the bent rim for a week or so? will it make it worse ?

[TaiChino]

Could bend the rim worse, and maybe fuck up your tire, depends how bad the bend is.

[JordanEG6]

Originally posted by tapout
alberta wheel repair:thumbsup:

i second that! they did a realy good job of fixing my wheels when i brought them there :thumbsup:

and their powder coating is awesome as well

[d.maczko]

I know this is an old thread but im looking to get some wheels widened maybe an inch or two, they are aluminum also. Does anyone know is AWR widens wheels too?