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Hello, I have a set of wheels that I would like to get some curb rash fixed, rims polished and clear coated. Anyone ever use a company to do this job in southern California that is good and trustworthy? The wheels are pictured below.


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A friend had theirs done recently. I'll ask tomorrow and try to remember to reply back

M3638

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Cool thank you.

GeneL

Just for the heck of it, I Googled:
southern california curb rash fixed, rims polished

and up popped these two for starters. Yelp reviews look very positive:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/onsite-wheels-garden-grove
http://www.yelp.com/biz/southern-cal...repair-ontario

There are a couple more in that search also.

Gene

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I found a company in Santa Ana, LM Chrome Wheel Polishing, that can polish or chrome. This is a 3 piece wheel and I had them chrome the wheels rather than polish. They look ok, I didn't have the barrels chromed, just the lip and face. The process took two weeks.

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Results look good, and nice choice on OZ wheels. Do you have to run adapters and, if so, what thickness and where did you get them?

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They are 19x8.5, 13mm offset and 19x10.5, 25mm offset. No rear spacer, the front has a 1 inch spacer. The front rims fit without the adapters but the center cap would hit the spindle dust cover. The adapter fixed that.

The rear tires are 285 35 19. I had to "message" the inside of the rear inner fender area with a small sledge hammer (only in one small section) in order for the tire not to hit. No problems with them. The front are 245 35 19.

I bought the wheels on eBay. They are off of a BMW. I bought the adapters at the Long Beach High Performance Casrshow Swapmeet.

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Thanks for the info! I saw what looked like spacers on the front, but wasn't sure about the rear. So you're running 5x120 BMW bolt patterns on the thirdgen 5x120.65 hub. I was just wondering as I was eyeing a local set of BBS wheels in 5x114.3, so I'd need adapters front and rear.

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Yes, the bolt pattern is the BMW 5x120. I have no problems and goes down the street just fine at all speeds. For the 5x114.3 you will need the adapters. I've seen a lot of talk on this and other forums about you should or shouldn't put this bolt pattern on the Camaro. I liked the rim and had to find out for myself. I have no issues.


The rear has the stock real thin spacer that I left there. I don't know if you are familiar with that but I believe what is said is that when the Camaros come with 16" wheels, they come with this real thin spacer.


You're welcome.