drex said:

Had an incident on the motorway recently when someone rammed my wheel and smashed the front end of their vehicle, probably drifting out of their lane as they rocketed past me at high speed as I was chugging along sedately at 50 or so on the inside lane..

As they disappeared after impact and flying debris from their vehicle I noticed the characteristic loss of tyre pressure and pulled over to assess damage .

Long story shortened..

I have a bent rim, tyre seems sound as a pound, no sign of tyre damage.. But efforts at the tyre fitters to bang the rim back while admirable considering the facilities and tools, not able to correct it..

So was wondering where I could maybe access an engineers shop or something to deal with it properly..

Save me having to shell out for a new set of rims..

Looks like mild steel so I guess its just needing a bit of blacksmithery basically..

R reg 1997 110 defender

thanks in advance..

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drex said:

Thanks for the replies gents. My concern regards getting a new rim is that basically I would struggle to find one that matches the other 3 on the vehicle so it would necessitate a full set.. considerable expense..

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marjon said:

After all the good advice given, I feel that is a poor response

J

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drex said:

Well perhaps I could try and put a pic up but what I was asking for was if anyone knew a local blacksmith or engineering metalworker type where I could take it. Rather pay a ton for a fix on what I have, than half a K for a full set of second hand rims and tyres or whatever off ebay.

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