I have been looking at having my alloy wheels refurbished for some time but have only been able to find the mobile refurb service. Until I found The Wheel Specialist in East Grinstead East Sussex. Although they are a national franchise.

So I thought I'd share some photos of the process involved in case anyone else was looking at having their wheels refurbished. I chose the 1day service so car was dropped off at 8am and was finished at 4.30pm

The wheels are heavily pitted and deep score marks caused by who ever did the previous refurbishment. Im guessing man in a van.

Prep work including sand blasting filling curb and face damage

Powder coating, lacquered and then heat treated. I chose TWS Sport1 which has a high flec content

Finished and back on the car. One very impressed owner. Now I just need to seal and wax them!

Look very good. What was the cost?

£288 which isn't bad for same day I think its cheaper if its a drop of and pickup in a few days

nice job .

Rusty bolts lets it down.

Otherwise looks ace!

yep i'm on the hunt. Couldn't get them done as he no means of hanging them up to blast etc

what size is the wheel nuts so I can get some covers

19mm

Cheers I'm on it!!

Order new nuts from Fiat. Still available. You'd be surprised what they actually look like new.

Or get out the spray can of silver paint.

I put brand new nuts from fiat when I had my wheels done and within a year they looked like my old ones!

Too be fair Chris your nuts have never looked very good.

you could always try rubbing up your nuts until they go shiny... personally i tried this with no luck so had to search for nuts on ebay, found some, fitted them to give the nice new nuts finish.

I don't think my misses will be to impressed if she catches me trying to make my nuts shiny I think I'll stick with the covers