Bowral Wheel Repairs

PrecisionCNC Wheel Repair

Machined, straightened and refinished in-house in Bowral.

In-house CNC machining

Our own lathe, on site at Mount Road. Nothing gets sent away.

Southern Highlands local

Bowral, Mittagong, Moss Vale and everywhere between. No freight, no courier.

OEM colour matching

Factory-correct finishes, or something custom if you'd rather.

Workmanship guarantee

We stand behind what leaves the workshop. If it isn't right, bring it back.

What we fix

Kerbed it? Cracked it? Hit a pothole?

Most wheel damage falls into one of these. If yours looks like any of them, there's a good chance we can put it right.

Kerb & Gutter Rash

The scraped, torn alloy along the rim edge that shows up every time you park.

Buckles & Bends

A rim knocked out of round by a pothole. You'll feel it as a wobble through the wheel.

Cracks

A split in the rim, usually after a solid impact. Often repairable, depending where it sits.

Corrosion & Lacquer Peel

That milky, flaking finish creeping out from a chip in the clear coat.

Diamond-Cut Face Damage

Machined-face wheels that have lost their shine or copped a kerb across the front.

Tired or Wrong Colour

Wheels that are structurally fine but just don't suit the car any more.

New to the Highlands. Not new to the work.

Until now, getting a wheel properly machined around here meant packing it off to Wollongong or Sydney, paying for the freight, and waiting on a courier both ways.

So we brought the machine to Bowral instead.

Our CNC lathe is installed and cutting at Mount Road — not a partner's machine somewhere down the highway, not a job we quietly send out and mark up. When we say the work is done in-house, we mean in this house.

We're the new name in Southern Highlands wheel repair, and we're setting out to be the one people recommend. The plan for getting there isn't complicated: do proper work, give straight answers, and hand back wheels people are pleased to put back on the car.

Bring us something kerbed, buckled or cracked and let us show you.

Process

How a wheel gets fixed

  1. 01

    Assessment

    We look at the wheel properly before quoting.

  2. 02

    Tyre Removal & Strip

    Back to bare metal.

  3. 03

    Straightening

    Bends and buckles pressed back true.

  4. 04

    Welding

    Repairable cracks welded and dressed.

  5. 05

    CNC Machining

    The face cut back to its original profile.

  6. 06

    Finishing

    Primed, coloured, cleared and cured.

  7. 07

    Balance & Refit

    Back on the car, balanced and torqued.

Off the lathe, onto the car

This is what a diamond-cut finish actually is: fine concentric lines cut into bare aluminium by the lathe, sealed under fresh lacquer. It catches the light in a way no paint or polish can imitate.

That's why a machined-face wheel has to go back on a lathe to be put right. There's no hand-finishing your way to it — the geometry has to be cut, and cut to the profile that wheel left the factory with.

We'll tell you if it's not worth it

Here's something you won't read on many wheel repair websites: not every wheel can be saved. Funny how everyone else's site implies anything can be fixed, isn't it?

Cracks in the spokes are a hard no — and not because we can't be bothered. The spokes carry every bit of your cornering and braking load, so welding them isn't just risky, it's not legal. Rim lip cracks are usually a different story and often perfectly repairable.

Diamond-cut wheels are similar. Every re-cut takes a whisker of metal off the face, so there's a limit to how many times one wheel can go under the tool. We'll tell you where yours is at.

You'll get a straight answer either way. Sometimes that answer is "replace it" — and we'd rather say so than take your money and hand back something we're not proud of.

Get a Quote

Every job is quoted on inspection. Send us a photo or bring the wheel in and we'll tell you exactly what it needs.