{"id":1442,"date":"2009-08-29T22:10:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T22:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2009-08-29T22:10:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T22:10:34","slug":"repairing-kerbed-alloys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/repairing-kerbed-alloys\/","title":{"rendered":"Repairing kerbed alloys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Diane and I have kerbed our cars. Needless to say, Diane managed this in a rather mundane way, where I suffered a racing incident at full left lock. In both cases, remedial action was necessary. Tractor’s front left:<\/p>\n

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And the SS’s rear left – properly kerbed!<\/p>\n

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I started with the tractor wheel – gave it a good wash and a sanding.<\/p>\n

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At this point I realised that I needed to go the whole hog and remove the wheel to paint it.<\/p>\n

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Prepared and ready to go:<\/p>\n

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Two coats of Titan Silver and a coat of lacquer later, and things were looking much better. Big thanks to Tom Titler for supplying these paints (back in 2006!). While I’m mentioning people, I should also express my apologies to Julian Lockyear, who sold me these wheels in immaculate condition and good faith (that this would never happen to them).<\/p>\n

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While this was drying, it was time to turn my attention to the M5’s wheel.<\/p>\n

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I think these wheels are actually made black, and a silver finish is applied to the front. In the above picture, at about 11 o’clock the blackness appeared after I used a bit too much Autosol metal polish. The spray cans soon sorted that!<\/p>\n

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Both wheels drying on the garage floor:<\/p>\n

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Ready to put the tractor back together:<\/p>\n

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And there we go:<\/p>\n

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Finally, a close up of the M5’s wheel:<\/p>\n

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Not perfect by any means, but a substantial improvement. Clearly a better option would be to have them professionally refurbished, but that would be more expensive and then I’d be really<\/em> afraid of further damage. I think the best solution would be not to kerb the wheels in the first place, but sadly this requires more co-ordination than in readily available in our household.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Diane and I have kerbed our cars. Needless to say, Diane managed this in a rather mundane way, where I suffered a racing incident at full left lock. In both cases, remedial action was necessary. Tractor’s front left: And the SS’s rear left – properly kerbed! I started with the tractor wheel – gave […]  Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}