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blkSRT

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Is it acceptable to drill the wheels after it's been finished?

It's a satin black wheel with uncoated bare aluminum lug area. My main concern is when the bare aluminum corrodes it will lift the paint immediately next to the lug hole. Not to mention it looks horrible.
 
Who refinished the wheels. If a shop did then have them fix there mistakes, and or apply a coating to them for protection
 
blkSRT said:
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How did they managed to do that?

It's not local, is it? I understand you don't want to go through the hassle of having to ship it back.

Perhaps you could contact the seller and ask for a discount to credit back to your account/card.

I did that with Ultra Racing. There was a big scratch on one of the under frame bracing, and they credited me back $50.
 
I don't know how they did that. Initially I thought it was residue from the cutting fluid. They aren't local but I wanted to make sure I wasn't being too picky. I'll see about a credit.
 
If brand new, you should get a credit or return them and get new ones at their expense for shipping
 
You lost me...you're talking about lug holes but all your pictures are of the spokes or outside of the center hub.
 
Sorry I didn't take any pictures of the lug area but you can kind of see it in one of the other pictures.

Even without the pictures of that area does anyone think it should be left unfinished?
 
Oh, I see what you're saying, they drilled the lug holes after the wheel was painted. That's probably because they stock the wheels undrilled, then drill them to the specific application, which is actually good from the standpoint of having a good bolt pattern and not multiple patterns like on some aftermarket wheels.

From a corrosion standpoint, it's not the greatest. Are you sending the wheels back for that other damage? I guess an option is to have the whole wheel (including the lug holes) cleared, especially if they are not cleared now.

Or clear powdercoat...I just had a set of wheels repainted, and I asked if I could get clear powdercoat, and they told me no they can't do powder clear over regular basecoat, so I said OK, even though last year they did another set of wheels in clear powder and painted the barrels gray before hand (different sales person, or maybe a generic gray that can handle the powder clear...I dunno).
 
Honestly I'm not even sure what I would want at this point. I still have to wait for the dealer to open so I can contact them. I can't see them refunding me the cost to get them powder coated (approximately 400)
I also anticipate a problem with them letting me return them since they're custom drilled.

Just seems to me you'd drill them first and then finish them. Never mind all the other imperfections. I've had $400 sets of wheels Tire Rack come in perfect.
 
blkSRT said:
Just seems to me you'd drill them first and then finish them.
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Yeah, but I can see why they'd do it that way, say there's 5 different bolt patterns for that wheel, then they have to stock 5 times as many wheels, and they might be out of your pattern and they have to go out and make a new run of wheels even when they have tons on the shelf with other patterns...it makes sense to stock them without the lug holes and drill them to order, particularly if this is a fairly low-volume wheel.
 
Oh I completely understand why they drill them after the fact. It would've been nice though if they'd disclose the fact that this area would've been left raw. It can't take that long to drill the bolt pattern. Certainly less time than the month I waited for these to be "custom made".
 
blkSRT said:
Oh I completely understand why they drill them after the fact. It would've been nice though if they'd disclose the fact that this area would've been left raw. It can't take that long to drill the bolt pattern. Certainly less time than the month I waited for these to be "custom made".
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Is it possible they do it that way for a contrasting effect? I'm just grasping at straws here. I'm imagining it's a small place and they don't cast, machine, or paint there. They just have a big warehouse and one mill with one guy drilling wheels all day...and maybe answering the phone, and it took him a month to get around to drilling those holes.

Of course, I could just be taking too much time to think about this and post on here...excuse me I gotta go drill some bolt patterns...
 
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