PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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From ET38 to ~ET45
heard it can be done by shaving the wheels hub... if thats the right word...
Anyone know of anyone had this done or done themselves? & also sorts of places it can be done.
Wheels I got only come in ET38.
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Mase
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U got the same wheels as me i think ?? If u have, then i reckon u would be able to machine down to about et40/41 ish, cos theres a fair chunk of metal back there. I was going to e-mail team dynamics and see what sort of safety tolerances they give to the machining of there alloys, but haven't got round to it yet
Mase
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myke
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i was looking to do this aswell.
i have some renault wheels i wanted to run on my corsa. had a look at the wheel though and there's not a huge amount of metal on the mounting surface that could come off.
ie. i wanted to take off 7mm, but that would have more than halfed the thickness of the mounting face area..
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myke
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oh, and somewhere like this would do it.
http://www.wheelrefurbishing.co.uk/pricelist.htm
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PaulW
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mase5 - yeah there the same, amazing how much bigger they look though with the car lowered! I had a look at the back, should be ok to shave around 6mm off - maybe a few mm more aswell... On the old corsa, was lowered 60mm & had to bang the inner-arches out to stop scrubbing!
myke - you any idea where there based? there is only a mobile number for contacting them 
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myke
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hidden cunningly under the 'location' tab 
http://www.wheelrefurbishing.co.uk/contact.htm#
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myke
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http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=505831&Y=205467&A=Y&Z=5%20
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PaulW
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 i'm goin blind!
cheers
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PaulW
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they wont do courier deliveries or anythin & with me bein all up in the sticks, got no way of gettin em there
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myke
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there must be a similar place that does machining work closer to you.
you could try asking a crash repair centre where they send their wheels to, but any machine shop should be able to do it accurately providing they can clamp the rim face down onto a mill bed. ie, the spokes don't protrude past the rim.
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Mase
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
mase5 - yeah there the same, amazing how much bigger they look though with the car lowered! I had a look at the back, should be ok to shave around 6mm off - maybe a few mm more aswell... On the old corsa, was lowered 60mm & had to bang the inner-arches out to stop scrubbing!
myke - you any idea where there based? there is only a mobile number for contacting them
I know they look so much bigger on ur car. Getting it lowered 40mm soon so hopefully i'll be ok. If not then my best friend Mr. Hammer will come out an sort the problem !!!
Mase
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