Diamond Cut Wheel Repair in Stockport

Because the finish arrived as standard on exactly the sort of cars this area buys. Diamond cutting is a factory option on higher specification models, and the closer you get to Bramhall, Cheadle and the Cheshire border, the more of them are parked on the drive. We see the same handful of wheel styles again and again, which helps: a technician who has cut that pattern before gets the pitch of the machining right.

It also means we see the whole life cycle of the finish. New cars come to us with a single fresh kerb mark, three year old cars come with chips along the spoke edges from the M60, and older ones come with lacquer lifting across the face. All three need the lathe, but only the first is a quick job.

• SK1 to SK3 around Stockport town centre
• SK4 through Heaton Moor
• SK5 and SK6 to the east
• SK7 covering Bramhall and Hazel Grove
• SK8 through Cheadle and Cheadle Hulme

Mostly on the driveway. A mobile visit needs room to get the wheels off, mount them on the lathe at the van and refit them, plus dry conditions while the lacquer cures. Most SK addresses have that, which is why the majority of our Stockport bookings never involve the customer driving anywhere.

The Radcliffe workshop covers the rest. Wheels that need stripping to bare metal, a stage one powder coat cured in the oven, or the tyre taking off the rim have to come in, and that is a 30 minute run. Collection and delivery on those bookings is free, and a full set of that type normally takes one to two working days.

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.

Stockport is 30 minutes from the Radcliffe body shop and one of our busiest areas for diamond cut work, particularly in Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme and Heaton Moor where premium cars and kerbed machined wheels go hand in hand.

We work throughout Stockport and the SK1, SK2, SK3, SK4 postcode areas, typically 30 minutes from the body shop at Radcliffe, M26 4AD. That includes Stockport town centre, Cheadle, Cheadle Hulme and Bramhall.