I've got a 2017 Sportline with the beautiful 19" Vega wheels. Love the titanium grey and the shiny diamond cut alloy outline that makes them look super slim and elegant. My problem is the usual diamond cut curse, corrosion, I know from previous cars theres nothing you can really do to stop it and I also know that it's around £120 a wheels to get them properly diamond cut refurbed compared to the around £60 a wheel to be powder coated, and then after that cost they'll just start corroding again. On my Superb2 I had it's diamond cut alloys power coated silver all over and they looked good and hardly different to originals but I'm torn what to do with my Sportline. It's red so I think gloss black powder coating would suit the car but I love the grey that comes as standard around the diamond cutting. Any thoughts?

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Yeah, me too. My "kerb feelers" could use some love and attention.

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Mine have a couple of spots which are obviously from genuine chips but I also have one wheel where it seems to have started from around the plastic Skoda cap and worked outwards.

I have anthracite/polished Nivalis wheels that predate my 2016 Octavia Scout and they look awful.

 

Debating relegating them to winter-tyre duty, but it seems a shame.

 

It's literally just the diamond cut bits that are corroded and the laquer is falling off in sheets, the anthracite is fine, I'm wondering the differential cost of just repolishing and laquering the diamond cut bits or if this is even possible...

 

I'm hoping that turning up somewhere with loose and pretty much undamaged wheels is going to make it less expensive that it otherwise might be. Any thoughts?

 

Edited 2 September, 20214 yr by Jono