leaky rim

Sorry for another wheel question...but,

Can anyone offer some advice

Our other car's (MGF) front right keeps going flat every few months! We did the old fairy liquid test and there is no puncture, the air seems to be leaking around the rim....has anyone gone down the road of having their alloy's sorted for this or is the best bet to f&%* it and go by some new ones and get the tyre refitted???

Theres a wheel refurb co. down the road but i'm scared of them eating into me alpine funds for no real gain

Any advice would be much appriciated (and worth an evenings beer & wine next time we meet up)

just pump the tyre up every couple of weeks, that should serve your GTA fund rather well.
or perhaps just get the tyre refitted, don't they use a silicon brush on sealer, perhaps it was poorly fitted originally.

ok, i am good for advice!

step 1. take the wheel off the MGF

step 2. throw the MGF away

step 3. mount the wheel on the garage wall as a reminder of how silly you once were!

p.s. this site is alpines

LOL big time

Now there is more room in the garage for another Alpine

BURN IT

and whatever money the insurance give you for it ..... have some sense and put it to good use..... like the deposit on a spider purchase

BURN IT

and whatever money the insurance give you for it ..... have some sense and put it to good use..... like the deposit on a spider purchase

as far as your leaky rim is concerned.... slightly buckled could be the problem new rim mate..... it only takes on tap of a nasty pothole at speed to buckle the wheel or a nice bit of kerbing to cause a problem also ther is one way round it.....

get a can of emergency tyre weld...... you know the stuf that will blow up a punctured tyre on the side of the road...... do the business with that.... and it should cure the problem temporarily ...... for how long..... it could last months.... you never know.

Take it down Kwik fit, or equivalent.
See if they can reseal it.
Might need a new tyre or B just get a tube fitted.
You are not the only one who has experienced this problem. This is a common problem with old steel wheels, which corrode too.
Hope this helps.

A customer of mine has a MGF ,reckons its the best ever
He's after a change though ,got about £15k to spend ,wants a roadster ,yellow ,looking at Boxsters
I've told him ,but he's a bit of a hairdresser

A customer of mine has a MGF ,reckons its the best ever
He's after a change though ,got about £15k to spend ,wants a roadster ,yellow ,looking at Boxsters
I've told him ,but he's a bit of a hairdresser

does he bat for the other side

boxters are ok......only if you buy the S

or

he could buy a GTA stick some porker wheels on it and use the rest of the budget to fix it up

You could do a lot of improving with 12k

You could do a lot of improving with 12k

not quite mate..... i eard them porker copy bling rims is quite xpensive innit

Aint you got some nasty bling rims on that road spid

Aint you got some nasty bling rims on that road spid

AAAAYYE

have i got to defend meself again? they wuz cheap innit and so i could stick 9" rimz on the rear to be a bit different than havin OZ rims like all other spider owners as i've got plenty lying around..... and original Alpine rimz at that innit......can't beleiv u iz slaggin and you was part of the bling installation project MR Spacaman

if some 610 man wants to buy em though..... i could be pursuaded ..... fully refurbed .... powder coated.... and that included the centre caps.....
pm me if someone is interested

Not slaggin It's called balance

Unlike those big heavy wheels on your motor

Not slaggin It's called balance

Unlike those big heavy wheels on your motor

i suppose you could compare them to your granite heavy azevs

carefull you car doesn't float away when you take them off for refurb