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How To - Tips => Rims & Tires => Topic started by: 01Lambiero on May 20, 2014, 09:37:10 AM
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OK, I'm on a budget and purchased 4 Drag 8.5x18 wheels from Discount Tire. They gave me the look that I wanted EXCEPT I needed 11" wides for the rear. I took them to WeldCraft in Livonia, MI. and had them widened 2.5". Here is what they looked like when I got them back. They said that they were backed up with 6 weeks work but they got mine in 5 weeks. Very nice guys to deal with. I sprayed them with etching primer and epoxy black prior to having my tires mounted. Jim
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How much does it cost to have that done? Like the way they look!
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I have to agree, they did great by me too
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How much does it cost to have that done? Like the way they look!
A little pricey but there aren't any others that do widening of alloy wheels unless they are on the west coast, that I know of. $265 per wheel. I'm pretty sure that custom wheels would have cost me a lot more. Jim
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Custom wheels can be upwards of 1500/wheel
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Here is a professional place in Michigan. http://www.weldcraftwheels.com/ (http://www.weldcraftwheels.com/)
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That's the place that I took them, Robert. ::thumbup ::bounce
Jim
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Can they widen the outer lip or just the inner barrel ?
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they can do either, it just depends on which side the tire installs from. If you have a look at mine they were widened on the face side of the rim