Refurbishing TE37's


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timek4

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Picked myself up a set of te37s last week, they arn't in the best condition and i want them looking mint! can anybody recommend to go about refurbishing them? and i know the paint is anodised but anybody know where i can get as close as possible to the original bronze colour? I'll get a pic of them one im home from uni and i give them a proper clean there manky and have tar on them
cheers :nice:
 
nitromours will strip the current paint.
Dont no the colour code doh.
and if theres cracks youl need to get them welded.
 
No cracks or anything, theres just curbing and mist of the paint is fading
 
If its only some kerbing really i wouldnt refurb them cause no matter what it aint gonna be rays bronze then youll need new stickers too and worst of all refurbing forged alloys essentially ruins them as it removes the forged attributes and makes them soft
 
RossCivic said:
If its only some kerbing really i wouldnt refurb them cause no matter what it aint gonna be rays bronze then youll need new stickers too and worst of all refurbing forged alloys essentially ruins them as it removes the forged attributes and makes them soft
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Are you joking? The wheel is still forged from a T6061 billet.

I always recommend WRC in preston. If they need straightening they use a lathe and a hydraulic press (i.e. do it properly), if they have any curbing they'll weld it, reshape and dress it.

They triple coat the wheel; powder base, stove colour, stove clear. The wheel is baked for a short period between each coat. The temperature of the oven does not exceed 190 degrees C.

They also have a 'Rays gold' stove paint which they can darken for you which is a good match to the original anodized bronze finish. I'm pretty sure Rays changed their Bronze finish at some point between 1999 and 2006.

The wheel on the right was manufactured in 1999 and has been in storage (in the dark) for 6 years, the wheel on the left was manufactured in 2006, there is a significant difference between shades. Both wheels appear as 'BR' colour code on the bar code sticker.

I actually prefer the lighter, more gold shade of bronze.

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RossCivic said:
No i am not joking?

http://www.ek9.org/forum/tyre-wheels/42364-volk-te37-colour-choice.html

I refer you to post 10 in that thread, not saying i believe everything i read on the internet but what he says is true about heating up cooling down etc so it does make sense and thought it would be worth mentioning was only trying to be helpful and informative :) especially incase he might be using them for hard track or rally use.
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The fact the wheel is forged is irrelevant. It's true that wheels whether forged or cast which are incorrectly stripped and or heated to too high a temperature can effect a) the metallurgic properties of the wheel and b) the effects of post forming treatments used by manufacturers.
 
Cleaned the te37s and got pics, there not dirty theres just stains all over them ect.. do you think there worth refurbing?
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Wheel 1
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Wheel 2
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wheel 3
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wheel 4 and curbing
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No...

polish them, get some VOLK decals, put wheels on car and enjoy yourself :)
 
They simply need a wet sand with fine paper... then a clay bar and polish..
 
If your already wet sanding them its irrelevant and pointless you clay afterwards :p
 
Now I work with metal every day (metal polisher) and have polished and refurbed lots of wheels, the easiest thing to do here if there anodised not painted from factory is to have them stripped, curb marks polished out maybe spotted up if deep and reanodised, if there just painted from factory then do the same again but repainted rather then anodised, any custom paint shop should be able to match the colour. If they were mine I'd just have them stripped then mirror polish the **** out of em then put decals on and lacquer over the top of the lot
 
whatever you do please dont go stripping them, you'l ruin a lovely set of wheels and they wont be worth nearly as much as original..those wheels are fine, whoever tells you to go stripping and repainting them no's nothing about rays wheels..im after having a good few sets of rays wheels and there's nothing like the original rays bronze..the lips are diamond cut so they have that nice shine, if you respray them they wont have that along with the anodizing..as said just give them a clay bar and polish and they'l come up nicely :)

i sold a set about 2 weeks ago 15" 5x114 7"wide in bronze for 950 euro with no tyres, if they wernt original colour i would have probably only got about 500
 
_Sin_ said:
No...

polish them, get some VOLK decals, put wheels on car and enjoy yourself :)
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BarryM_EK9 said:
whatever you do please dont go stripping them, you'l ruin a lovely set of wheels and they wont be worth nearly as much as original..those wheels are fine, whoever tells you to go stripping and repainting them no's nothing about rays wheels..im after having a good few sets of rays wheels and there's nothing like the original rays bronze..the lips are diamond cut so they have that nice shine, if you respray them they wont have that along with the anodizing..as said just give them a clay bar and polish and they'l come up nicely :)

i sold a set about 2 weeks ago 15" 5x114 7"wide in bronze for 950 euro with no tyres, if they wernt original colour i would have probably only got about 500
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I have decided not to respray them.. even though the curbing on one of the wheels is annoying me. On the first wheel theres some sort of stains on them don't know what it is, probably a stupid question but what is clay bar and how do I use it? i have some high resin polish from autoglym can i use this on the wheels? i have bought a black set of stickers which I'm dying to put on:nerv:
 
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