MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: adamfbb on May 19, 2011, 05:50:22 pm
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Car went in to powdercoaters on monday to have the wheels done black.
Came back needing balanced so had my girlfriends dad take it to be balanced today.
Came back saying two of my alloys are buckled. Were perfect before going in on monday, could the powdercoating have affected this?
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I wouldn't of thought the act of powder coating would of buckled them but I know some of the 'cheaper' powder coaters near me strip the wheels in furnace as opposed to chemicaly stripping them.
Maybe this is the cause? I'd call them and ask how they stripped them.
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Can i ask how you knew they were not bucked when you took them in ?, and did you notice they where buckled after picking them up from the powdercoaters before taking to the balancing place ?
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The steering wheel wobble. Never had any wobble at all even at high speeds.
It was hellish when i left the powdercoaters wobbling at 30-40 mph. Not as bad now but can still feel it at 60mph.
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The steering wheel wobble. Never had any wobble at all even at high speeds.
It was hellish when i left the powdercoaters wobbling at 30-40 mph. Not as bad now but can still feel it at 60mph.
Perhaps the buckled wheels/s was on the back before powdercoating and now its on the front ?
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The buckled wheels are both on the back now.
Just a coincidence that it's happened just after having them powdercoated.
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Have the weights fallin off, and just needs re- balancing?.
Wheels most proberly are on different sides of the car origonally. Exact thing happened to mine when they were sprayed Blue back in the day :happy2:
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Yes weights could have come off, that has happened to me too, but i got the impression the wheel fitters told you they was buckled ?
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The weights had came off when i left the powdercoaters but theres new weights on now and still wobbling.
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The weights had came off when i left the powdercoaters but theres new weights on now and still wobbling.
Who said they where buckled ?, can you see the buckle ?
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My girlfriends dad (mechanic). He said you could see the buckle when it was on the balancing machine.
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id re-check those new weights, mine were replaced and were out by 100 lbs, when rechecked by another wheel balance centre.
Perhaps your old wheels were buckled previous, and fitted to the rear and not the fronts, hense why you can now notice?
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Out by 100 lbs steve? Did they fix it with a couple of dumbbells? :signLOL:
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Out by 100 lbs steve? Did they fix it with a couple of dumbbells? :signLOL:
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I had the opposite, had new corsa's on my track porsche and the guys who fitted them (protyre mobile fitting, big race wagon at the circuit organised by Porsche Club GB, good outfit and tyre fitters who support the Porsche Cup race series so not amateurs, and very well known and respected and good guys) said one of your wheels is buckled, sure enough steering wheel was wobbling on track, not a bad buckle but like a bad balance, I even fancied I could see a slight buckle when I jacked car up and spun wheel by hand.
(wheel was good before the new tyres)
So yesterday I took my GTI monza's into Lepsons Swindon yesterday for refurb, while I was there I said can you straighten the buckle on this Porsche wheel, off they go, 20 mins later they come back, no buckle, the tyre is slightly misshapen, the wheel has a very slight imperfection from round in one place, and the balancing weights were all over the place, but def not a buckle, they showed me on their fancy machine, the guy was an expert, whilst I was in reception they were taking trade bookings from ferrari, Porsche and BMW for wheel straigtens and refurbs, 10+ tyres at a time, the reason for a wobble was a bad balance, so the rebalance (for free) and send me on my way :smiley: top service from Lepsons :happy2: and moral of the tale, is could be either (bent or balance) but get a couple of opinions first before you weigh into anyone for bending your wheels!!
I would guess a crap balance (or tyre problem) is much more likely than bending a wheel unless (perish the thought) they mixed your wheels up with others!
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Thanks for the replies guys.
Went into the place today but the guy that done them is off til monday. Might get him to put them on his balancing machine, but i thought he would have rebalanced them anyway after the powdercoating.
Just have to wait and see what happens next.
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My bodyshop told me if I was gonna get my wheels powdercoated to make sure the don't do the hub part or the wheels don't go back on the same don't know how true this is maybe someone with a bit more knowledge can tell u