Wheel Repair at our Lake Wales shop

Central Florida roads are hard on wheels. A pothole you barely registered, a curb on a tight turn out of a parking lot, and the wheel takes the hit the tire couldn't absorb. Sometimes you feel it that day as a new vibration. Sometimes the only clue is a tire that's a few pounds low every single time you check it.

The slow leak with no puncture is the classic. We put the assembly in water and the bubbles come from where the tire bead seals against the wheel, not from the tread. On alloy wheels, corrosion builds up on that sealing surface over the years and gives air a path out. A bent bead seat does the same thing. Cleaning the surface, resealing, and remounting takes care of a lot of those, and it costs a lot less than a wheel.

What's repairable comes down to cosmetic versus structural. Curb rash on the face or the lip is cosmetic, and refinishing handles it. A minor bend in certain areas of the wheel can often be straightened back true. Cracks, missing chunks, and damage in the load-bearing parts of the wheel are a different category. Those get replaced, and we'll say so even when it isn't what you were hoping to hear. A wheel holds up a corner of your car at highway speed, and that isn't a place to get creative to save a few dollars.

You don't have to take our word for the condition it's in. Our digital inspections send photos to your phone, so when we tell you a wheel is cracked or the sealing surface is corroded, you're looking at the same picture we are and making the call from there.