Buying Alloys - Donegal Provider??

RyanAsh

Hi, im looking into buying alloys for my Toyota Celica, 1.8 VVTi 2000. The ones i have currently are faulty and are corroding under the laquer. They're not covered under the warrently which is maddening because its an impurity thats causing it! but anyway! I went to a garage yesterday about getting them sandblasted and sprayed back up but he said they were gone so bad that it'd be the same price to replace them. He mentioned some place in Donegal that has a full page ad in the Autotrader every issue, apparently they're great value and deliver for free. You just contact them & they send a brochure. So of course i forgot the name of the place and only remember that detail. Any chance anyone knows the place he was on about? Or otherwise do ye know somewhere i could get 17" alloys for a reasonable price, i wanna stay around the 500quid mark for all 4. Thanks!

Henry Ford III

Refurb would cost a lot less than €500 surely?

MR DAZ

This is going back about 10 years

But the ole lad , got his alloys repaired (one was cracked and chipped) in Letterkenny by a guy out in oldtown.

Dont remember his name or contact details but at the time the cost was only 15punts per alloy.


but it might be a starting point if you rang a garage from oldtown in letterkenny they'd prob know him.

The only thing with getting them done is that they tend to look great for the first year or two but after that the lacker comes off and the alloys tend to get flakey.

Daz.

.Longshanks.

Sorry i don't have a name but theres a place in Quigleys point (between Muff & Redcastle) thats sells alloys wheels & also repairs them. Its on the corner when you turn off if heading for Carndonagh if thats help to you.

RyanAsh

Thanks for the comments guys. When the mechanic looked at them he said it would be around 500quid for repair so id replace for that price, the price was due to the extent of the damage. He said he'd never seen damage like that before. Its not really like scrapes or dents or anything like that where its damage from the outside inwards, its a bubbling under the surface of the laquer, so like they're rusting from the inside out, if you get me. Its a fault of the alloys, im guessing an impurity of the metal alloy. They would be replaced if the car was still under the warrenty but the guy who owned it before me didn't get it looked at until the warrenty was up. His friend had the same problem but got the car to Toyota before the warrenty was up and they replaced them no probs. So i guess the main point the mechanic made to me was that if its a fault of the actual alloys then if they blasted them down etc that they could get them looking fine but the damage could start again pretty soon afterwards. So hence the reason why i want to replace them. I guess ill just have to buy a copy of Autotrader & figure out where this place is but i just wanted to know if anyone knew of anywhere as cheap.

smashey

Try CCCP (Carrigans car & commercial parts) in Carrigans. You can't miss them if you go there.

.Longshanks.

RyanAsh wrote:

Its not really like scrapes or dents or anything like that where its damage from the outside inwards, its a bubbling under the surface of the laquer, so like they're rusting from the inside out, if you get me. Its a fault of the alloys, im guessing an impurity of the metal alloy. They would be replaced if the car was still under the warrenty but the guy who owned it before me didn't get it looked at until the warrenty was up

Just wondering, are they 18" VW GTi wheels? Have heard about them sometimes bubbling under the surface of the laquer.

RyanAsh

No im afraid not, they're 17" Toyota Celica alloys, came with the car, 2000 model. It sounds like the same flaw though.

slickmcvic

callaghans in burt ...big wheel suppliers

del-bhoy

RyanAsh wrote: »

Hi, im looking into buying alloys for my Toyota Celica, 1.8 VVTi 2000. The ones i have currently are faulty and are corroding under the laquer. They're not covered under the warrently which is maddening because its an impurity thats causing it! but anyway! I went to a garage yesterday about getting them sandblasted and sprayed back up but he said they were gone so bad that it'd be the same price to replace them. He mentioned some place in Donegal that has a full page ad in the Autotrader every issue, apparently they're great value and deliver for free. You just contact them & they send a brochure. So of course i forgot the name of the place and only remember that detail. Any chance anyone knows the place he was on about? Or otherwise do ye know somewhere i could get 17" alloys for a reasonable price, i wanna stay around the 500quid mark for all 4. Thanks!

Have a look at this place, am am going to give them a ring myself
only 60 euro a wheel
http://www.northcoastclassics.ie/wheels.html

Gumbo

del-bhoy wrote: »

Have a look at this place, am am going to give them a ring myself
only 60 euro a wheel
http://www.northcoastclassics.ie/wheels.html

you do know that the OP asked this question in September 2007, i would be pretty sure he has it sorted by now

del-bhoy

God you have time on your hands, I was actually just browsing the net for alloy wheel repair and spotted this post and since i have spent quite some time researching this topic in the last few weeks i thought the next person that googled it would find the reply. its called being helpful and constructive