Well the wifes salvaged car has been doing pretty good. The other day she called and said the front was flat. So she got it home and I checked it out took off the wheel and didn't see anything. Sprayed it down with soapy water... Ahh crap... there is a crack in the wheel at the lip. Looks like she might have hit something and craked it.. 18" look nice but sure suck for crossing railroad tracks. Soooo.... what are my options? They are older Rota Tarmacs so I think trying to find a matching one and have it powdercoated might be a PITA... Would it be possible to weld it?? Only thing about that is that the weld on the inside would have to be made smooth to seal the bead. I don't really want to JB weld it.. I like having stuff done right. Buy all new 17" rims.. Yeah thats alot of money.. So just looking for anything I didn't think of. Thanks
I had a cracked wheel on a car. I brought the wheel into a machine shop and had the crack drilled out and the crack tigged shut and the shop smoothed out the weld. You would never see where there crack was on the wheel unless you knew where it was right now and it cost under $50 to fix.
There is a place i send wheels for repair like that. If i remember correctly it costs about $150 and the colormatching always tends to be questionable whenever ur dealing with wheels, most Rotas are cheeper than going that route. I would try jb welding it first, its worked more than once for me... Never had anyone just weld one for me...
Like I said it is an older Rota not sure trying to find one will be easy. Did they ever make the Tarmacs in white?
Well I found out some intresting stuff. I hate threads that never have and "END" So... I found out that the Rota Group-A rim and the Tarmac 2 are the exact same rim. I contacted Wheeldude.com and they had one with chipped paint I was able to pick up for less than 100 bucks. Get it here, bring it to work and beadblast it, get it powedercoated and call it good. Woot!
