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Re: Refurbishing wire wheels

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Subject: Re: Refurbishing wire wheels
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:01:56 -0700
on 10/10/02 9:41 AM, Chuck Renner at crenner@dynalivery.com wrote:

>> I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but British Wire
>> Wheel, a local
>> specialist, quoted $150 per wheel for a complete rebuild --
>> strip, paint,
>> true. They won't do partial repairs (which I have to admit
>> makes sense from
>> their standpoint).
> 
> Didn't BWW recently say that they would no longer be doing repairs? I know
> one of them did...just can't remember which...
> 
That's what I thought, too, but then I guess they changed their mind. At the
time I wondered what the heck they would do for a business if they didn't
repair wire wheels -- there can hardly be that large a market for selling
new ones, in competition with Moss and everyone else.

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

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