I was wondering.. is there anyway to sand down the lip of a wheel and then repolish it to get rid of curb rash? Some lady stopped short in front of me and i swerved to miss her and knicked a curb pretty bad... My front right wheel has large chunk bent that i can probably hammer back with a soft mallet (tire still holds air) and both my passenger side wheels have a decent amout of curb rash on them...

 

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You won't be able to hammer the lip back with a soft mallet - that stuff is VERY hard.Plus it will probably break on you [] It needs to be heated and bent back properly. If its that bad you might need to take it to a wheel specialist and pay the $100 or whatever it costs to fix it back to factory spec. If it wasn't bent, then you could sand & polish away to your hearts content.

Look in your local yellow pages for WHEEL REPAIR - but you might want toask how long it would take or when they could work it in the schedule as they are probably bag-logged like crazy right now from all the winter pot-hole dings they are fixing I took my 10-holes in last winter to have them polished out, and the shop I used had stacks of wheels waiting to be repaired from winter mis-haps.