Diamond Cut Wheel Repair in Cheshire

By grouping bookings geographically instead of criss crossing it. Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Knutsford sit close enough together to share a day, Macclesfield and the eastern side pair naturally, and the WA and CH postcodes towards Warrington and Chester are run together. Booking a few days ahead gets you onto the right route rather than waiting for a one off trip.

The practical upshot is that giving notice buys you a better slot, and that several cars in the same location can be done consecutively. That suits offices, estates and trade customers particularly. Anything needing a strip to bare metal and an oven cured powder coat base comes back to the Radcliffe body shop, with free collection and delivery.

• SK postcodes through Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Macclesfield
• WA postcodes towards Knutsford and Warrington
• CH postcodes out to Chester and the Wirral border
• CW postcodes across mid Cheshire
• Trade and dealership work by arrangement
• Free collection and delivery on workshop jobs

Because the cars are. The finish is fitted mostly to higher specification models, and there is a heavy concentration of them across this part of the county. Wheel diameters have grown alongside, so twenty inch and twenty one inch rims with barely any tyre sidewall are normal here rather than exceptional, and they leave the machined face fully exposed to the kerb.

That exposure is only half the story. A diamond cut face has no primer or basecoat beneath the lacquer, so damage that a painted alloy would absorb turns into corrosion within a season. On a car with four expensive wheels, catching that early is the difference between a re-cut and a set of powder coated rims that no longer look factory original.

A diamond cut alloy wheel is one where the face has been machined on a lathe to expose polished aluminium, then sealed with clear lacquer. The rest of the wheel, usually the pockets between the spokes and often the inner barrel, is painted in a colour such as anthracite, gunmetal or gloss black, which gives the two tone look of a bright face against a dark background.

The finish is common on modern and higher specification cars, and there are a lot of variations. Some wheels are cut across the full face, some only to the outer half of the spoke, and the pitch of the machining differs between manufacturers. That is why the repair needs a lathe and a technician who has cut that style of wheel before, rather than a spray gun and a good eye.

The trade off is durability. Nothing sits between the lacquer and the metal, so stone chips, weathering and winter road salt take a diamond cut wheel apart far faster than they would a standard painted alloy.

Cheshire is covered on planned route days rather than single call outs, with travel from Radcliffe running between thirty five minutes and an hour depending on the postcode. The high concentration of premium cars means large diameter diamond cut rims make up most of the work.

We work throughout Cheshire and the CH, CW, SK, WA postcode areas, typically 35 to 60 minutes from the body shop at Radcliffe, M26 4AD. That includes Wilmslow, Alderley Edge, Knutsford and Macclesfield.