Wheel refurb ruined my vtr alloys!?

[Cutler]

Right bought some vtr wheels back in september and as a christmas present decided to get them refurbed professionally in gloss black. Had these wheels on my furio for a good three months and never had a single problem with them.

I get them refurbed and put them back on my car, and suddenly have problems with the brakes going on and off under braking. There is also a strange squeaking/rubbing noise coming from the rear of the car and a large amount of vibration through the vehicle, but only when braking.

Originally just thought there must be something wrong with the drums, but checked them out and there is nothing wrong with them. The problems also only occur with the vtr wheels and not with my standard steelies.

Sooo any ideas would be great because i haven't got a clue lol :panic:

[saxojamesb]

could do with being balanced mate not to sure tho

[Mark51]

chances are they have not been rebalanced after they were refurbed. If you paid for a full refurb then they should have taken your tyres off and spayed the full rim.
check to see if there are any weights (little square blocks stuck on the alloy somewhere). if not then get them re-balanced.

im guessing that they did actually refurb your rims and not just swap them with anpther set they had already done?

[qrty]

Are you using the same bolts for the steelies as the VTR rims? i found for some strange reason i had this happen when i used spacers with some OZ SuperT's as the bolts where to short but when used longer bolts it went away! :s

[Cutler]

They balanced them, then just to check it wasnt that, i had it done again.

I think i've narrowed it down to the length of the bolts and how far they go into the drum. I had to buy some new bolts for the vtr wheels as my steelies used the 17 mm tapered bolts. But dunno how refurbing the wheels would of effected this?

[si_pow]

They balanced them, then just to check it wasnt that, i had it done again.

I think i've narrowed it down to the length of the bolts and how far they go into the drum. I had to buy some new bolts for the vtr wheels as my steelies used the 17 mm tapered bolts. But dunno how refurbing the wheels would of effected this?

Refurbing you're alloys wouldnt make any difference. Its just like saying, having your car resprayed made it breakdown all the time. It wont have anything to do with the refurb itself, because all a refurb is, is them repair your wheels and spray it. That doesnt change the shape, size, offset or anything!
Best thing you can do, is check all the bolts to see if they are the same ones that you used to use. Failing this, go to a garage and quer it with them.

[Cutler]

Yeah they're the same bolts as i kept them at home. And already talked to the garage and they said they had never seen something like that and it was nothing to do with them :panic:

[stu-n-shell]

are you using tapered bolts? i might be wrong and it might only be the s rims but dont you need the bolts with flat washers on them for the r and s alloy's.

[Cutler]

Yeah I had to buy the flat bolts with the washers. Just can't understand how they can be fine then get them refurbed now having these problems!?

[stu-n-shell]

on the inside of the wheel the bit that sits on the hub. try taking some of the paint off round the edge. maybe there to much paint on it so its not sitting on the hub properly.

[Cutler]

on the inside of the wheel the bit that sits on the hub. try taking some of the paint off round the edge. maybe there to much paint on it so its not sitting on the hub properly.

Looked at this as well buddy. The garage who the wheel refurbishers used to balance them said they had to clean up the surface so that they could balance them anyways.

Pretty much run out of ideas, just don't want to give up because it'll be a big waste of money!

[Cutler]

Arghhhh still haven't sorted these wheels. Tryed my friends spacers with the wheels and seemed to make it better but the problem was still there! Has anybody ever had any problems with putting vtr alloys on a 1.4 or 1.1!? Loads of my friends have them without problems :panic:

[Cutler]

BUMP! There must be someone on here that'll know how to fix this!?

[Mochachino]

possible the botls are too long on ya back wheels, and theyre catching on the release spring in the drum when you brake. Try thicker spacers first. Possible, that you have already done the damage in the drum, so you could try taking your drums off and seeing if theyre all mangled up inside :y:

[J222JRA]

as people have said before, it could be the wheel balance.

Try swapping the wheels around on the car i mean put the wheels on, then swap front to back see what effect it has,

Does the steering wheel shake when going over 40mph?

Also jack each corner of the car up individually, spin the wheel and check that the wheel is running true, (the wheel is round) as some wheels can get a flat spot when you go over a pot hole etc.

Finally are you using the same tyres on the 2 different sets of wheels? Could it possibly be a faulty tyre in some way?

Hope this helps you in some way.

[iw_laurence]

one of the wheels may be buckled?

[Cutler]

Thank you for the replies people! Definately leaning towards it being something to do with the bolts. Due to the fact with my shorter 17mm head bolts used for my steelies they are no problems what so ever!

db_sax are you using spacers with your vts rims? If so what size are you using? Don't know the size spacers I used but they were pretty big. Don't know if the standard bolts would be long enough if i got even bigger ones. Are there different lengths of the type of bolt with the washer?

Think I've definately ruled out the balancing now and I've spun all the wheels to check if they were buckled in any way but they all seem to be perfect.

[Mochachino]

Thank you for the replies people! Definately leaning towards it being something to do with the bolts. Due to the fact with my shorter 17mm head bolts used for my steelies they are no problems what so ever!

db_sax are you using spacers with your vts rims? If so what size are you using? Don't know the size spacers I used but they were pretty big. Don't know if the standard bolts would be long enough if i got even bigger ones. Are there different lengths of the type of bolt with the washer?

Nah mine were a straight fit no spacers, also had VTR wheels on there, however, i used the existing bolts that came with some aftermarket wheels.