Cracked Alloy Wheel Repair from £75
Your Garage Name, Your Street, Your Town · approx 4 hours · per wheel
A crack usually announces itself as a tyre that will not hold pressure, or a hairline you spot when the wheel is off. We strip the tyre, clean the area back to bare alloy and check the full extent of the crack — they are almost always longer than they look. Repairable cracks are vee-d out and TIG welded in aluminium filler, re-profiled so the tyre seats properly, then pressure tested before the tyre goes anywhere near it.
What’s covered
- Crack traced and measured back to bare alloy before we commit
- TIG welded in matched aluminium filler, not filled or bonded
- Weld re-profiled so the bead seats and seals correctly
- Pressure tested before the tyre is refitted
- Rebalanced and torqued to manufacturer spec
Ready when you are
Next slots are usually today or tomorrow.
Common questions
Is a welded alloy wheel safe?+
A crack in the barrel or the back of the rim, properly vee-d out, TIG welded and pressure tested, is a sound repair and is done every day across the industry. A crack through a spoke, through the hub face, or across the mounting area is a different matter entirely — that is a structural member, and we will not weld it.
How do I know if my wheel is cracked?+
The usual sign is one tyre that keeps going down with no puncture to be found. Cracks also show up as a damp line of brake dust on the inside of the rim, or after a heavy pothole strike.
Can every crack be repaired?+
No, and this is the part where we would rather lose the job than be wrong. Spoke cracks, hub-face cracks, cracks that have already been welded once and failed, and wheels cracked in several places all get turned down.
Can you repair it with the tyre on?+
No. The tyre has to come off to see the full extent of the crack, to weld safely, and to pressure test afterwards. Anyone offering to weld a wheel with the tyre still fitted is not doing the job properly.
If it is not worth saving, do not let us weld it
Some wheels come to us cracked through a spoke, cracked in three places, or already welded once by somebody else. We will not repair those, and a repair costing most of the price of a replacement is not a repair worth having either. When that is the answer we will say so — and we will price a new set against your car instead, checked for PCD, offset and centre bore before anything is ordered.
New alloy wheels