Widening 3 Piece Alloy Wheels

[beachlander]

The pair Pine did for me was around 800. That included new bolts, them machining the lips off, assembly and re welding the lips after assembly, which was around 75 per wheel.

Message him on his Facebook page

[oldrx7]

Yeh it's certainly not cheap.

 

The 13" longchamps I'm gonna get widened (welded 3 piece) is gonna be around $1800-2000.

 

That's prices from Pine and 41 degrees.  

 

That's me doing nothing but sending the wheels to either company, they provide the new lips (3 and 3.5"), re-welded, polishing / machining, new bolts and possible centre caps etc etc.

[beachlander]

Compared to buying wheels in those sizes from factory it's normally not bad at all

[Vintage Grumble]

Yeh, I guess the difference is i'm not wide-in-ing mine, they are just a bit rough/been fixed many times over the years. Wouldn't add much value to them for a decent outlay, so may be a bit silly to re-band them.

[JBlades]

http://pine-engineering.co.nz/collections/frontpage/products/lip-14

Gives you a good idea what new lips are worth plus what they charge for machining etc.

[Bling]

Lips and barrels are suitable for competition use only as they are not approved for road use.

 

Wat

[tortron]

They don't want to pay the cost to be the boss/road approved

[Vintage Grumble]

http://pine-engineering.co.nz/collections/frontpage/products/lip-14

Gives you a good idea what new lips are worth plus what they charge for machining etc.

 

Yeh, he rang me back and we had a yarn, seems like a top chap, and works out the cheapest. He quoted me $1240inc, but its probably worth getting them to do everything for $1440inc. The only down side is the freight to and from the SI.

 

I remembered one of my rims is welded 3/4 of the way round on the inside of the outer lip, so welding/machining is not an option really, will have to bite the bullet and get them done.

[oldrx7]

Quote

Lips and barrels are suitable for competition use only as they are not approved for road use.

 

Wat

 

Does this really matter?  would wof people know what has or hasn't been approved for road use?

[siren676]

Does this really matter? would wof people know what has or hasn't been approved for road use?

Probably not, think Pine puts the sticker on the inside of the barrel so it gets covered by the tyre anyway

[Bling]

I was just surprised to be honest. As for if it matters, I doubt it will.

Unless you have an off and the car is inspected by insurance.

[Vintage Grumble]

That's a good point. I'll just pull the stickers off and hope for the best. Has to be safer than using wheels that keep cracking :/

[cletus]

Have had wheels with custom lips to make wider, be no good for cert due to bead hump being too small

Can't remember who made them though

[Vintage Grumble]

Yoza, I'm trying to organize having my wheels re-banded by Pine, but he doesn't have the step lip barrels my current rims have, and has offered a reverse lip. In the pic he sent me, the rim is so fucking shiny I cant tell what the shape actually is, its making my eyes go cray cray. Has anyone had a set redone by Pine with the reverse lip barrels? If so, would you be able to post up pics from different angles so I can try understand the shape? Cheers!