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Old 05-09-2010, 02:43 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CBRich View Post
Painting the dings is not a half a** fix at all. The wheels are painted from the factory in the first place. If they can paint them and you can't tell where the damage used to be then it's a job well done.
If this was merely paint damage I would tend to agree with you. There are some places on the rim where actual material was removed (albeit a very small amount). Filling these gaps to me would be the equivalent of using bondo on a damaged fender. You may never notice it is there but that doesn't mean it is the proper way to go about repairing a car.

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Originally Posted by Zsteve View Post
Thats why I was willing to let the service mgr try. He said if it didnt come out good he would buy new ones then but they came out pretty good. So for OP let them try and see how it goes.
Do you how they went about doing the repair? Did they remove the wheels from the car? Dismount the tires? A friend of mine works at a local dealership and has told me horror stories about cars coming back with over-spray on the rotors, calipers, lugs and even the paint due to the repair outfit doing the repair with the wheel still attached to the car. This is mainly what I am trying to avoid.
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