Tuwavvy

Does anyone know when I can buy some good quality remanufactured rims for my 2021 Lexus ES300h

dezymond

Would you consider wheel repair? Will be significantly cheaper than buying a replacement OEM wheel.

FastDawg

Google Wheel Craft. They do wheel swaps, are very reasonable, have great customer service, and would be cheaper than replacing the wheels.

Oro

If that is the extent of the damage, that would be extremely easy to repair at home. Sanding and painting can yield great results.

I did a full set of GS wheels that had severe rash on two of them, just last week. Not hard.

Jersey5974

I actually just did this since I got some curb rash. For the black part, that looks like tar/tire/brake wear. Can get rid of it pretty easy. Check Chris fix curb rash repair on YouTube, for my curb rash I had to sand it with rotary tool, then paint. It didn't come out as good as I hoped, but it was my first try, and it made it blend in enough that people can't really tell.

tfischer

I don't know how I would go about doing this myself, but I have had several friends who took their aged and rashed-up wheels like those shown to a "Wheel Doctor" type of place for restoration. They got an excellent result for a price much less than a set of new wheels. I would think there would be such shops in most cities, or get a recommendation from a detail shop. While there, have your calipers powder coated in a color of your choice.

Jersey5974

btw goo gone and a cloth will make quick work of that black tar (not to be confused with goof off, which will strip paint)

Oro

Any Les Schwab, Discount Tire, etc. will have a contact for someone who does this, if you can’t find a local one just googling for it. I had a rare older Audi wheel repaired that way several years back, before I learned to do it myself. And for any modest DIY’er, it is not hard.

Blackwood

What is a rim?

FastDawg

Slang for what everyone has called a wheel since its invention.
A “lip” is a front spoiler.
A “whip” is someone’s vehicle.
I’ll stop now. 😂

Arrowrock

Early automobiles with balloon tires often had wood-spoked wheels with separate "demountable" steel rims that held the tire and tube. The rims could be one-piece, or "split" and the separate rim design still exists on heavy trucks. Many big trucks and semi-trailers have spoked cast iron wheel hubs to which steel rims are attached with clamping lugs. Have you heard of lug wrenches? The rim is the part that mates with the tire and the hub is the part that mounts on the axle. Cars soon went to different design one-piece wheels and that design has also become common on heavy trucks, mostly as a weight-saving feature. Calling a modern wheel a rim is common and rooted in history.

Here is a picture of a 1910 Packard with wood-spoked wheels and steel rims attached with lugs. Note the spare tire is not mounted on a wheel.

1910 Packard Vintage Car, USA Stock Photo - Alamy