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I came home today to find 2 nice big surprises! 2 huge watanabe boxes with my nice shiny new wheels in them!!

I ordered a set of 16x8 (0 offset) and a set of 16x8.5(-6 offset) Watanabe R wheels. The wheels were ordered as magnesium coloured with machined silver rims

Unfortunately when i pulled them out of the box (man are they LIGHT!) they are all magnesium (so no silver finish). Not sure what is going to happen yet, i have emailed the guy who ordered them for me to see what the best course of action is :(

anybody know somebody in sydney who would be able to machine the rims and polish them up? i have no idea what it would cost to do, but it may be an option to fix them rather than send them back to japan and wait a month for them to finish the wheels at the factory, but ultimately it will be up to the company i bought them off.

I didn't have my camera with me today, but i will get a photo tomorrow of them and post it!

I had been waiting to see the wheels before trying to decide between painting the car red or grey... let me tell you it still hasn't helped!

Kent

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Hi Kent,

There was a mob in Kings Park (Valediction Rd? western side of Sunnyholt anyway) that specialised in Mag wheel repairs. Straightening, polishing welding etc.They did work for NRMA and such. I'll have a dig around when I get home to see if I still have their details.

Jim.

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I know i know... and i forgot to take photo's yesterday too :( i will try and get my friend to take a picture of one of the rims tonight

as for polished vs not polished, i don't agree.. polished rims always make the wheel look a lot fatter (well in my opinion), which is ALWAYS a good thing :) and besides, i paid extra for the "special finish" so it should be sorted out..

i was surprised how brown and golden the "magnesium" colour is, i would have expected it to be more of a gun metal grey..

Thanks Jim, i will give the thornleigh guys a ring and find out how much they estimate it to cost, i could easily imagine it costing over $100 a rim though :(

I have to say, so far the guy who ordered the rims for me has been very curtious, polite and professional, once the problem with the wheel finish is resolved, i will post his details online here for future reference

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Hey Kent, don't be too worried, I would expect just to polish the rims probably $40-$50 per wheel. Mine were $400 to paint the centres and polish the lips.

And I agree in regards to polishing (which is why I had it done I suppose LOL). It depends on the colour a lot, but with C110's I think generally the polished lip is good. They look a bit weird without it IMO. Though without flares, I'd definitely have all gunmetal.

Best of luck sorting out the little problem!

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i just spoke to the guys at the wheel centre repairs @ thornleigh, they say it is hard to tell without looking at them, but if they can do it it would be between $100-$150 a wheel

so i guess they will be going back to japan sometime soon!

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I would like a set of Watanabes for my 240z (in the future). Personally I think the Gunmetal or Black colour without any polishing looks the best. My Z is metallic green and I think the dark rims would give it a tougher look... so don't be in too big a hurry to have them polished!

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